ABOUT David Dunnington
My name is David Dunnington and I am the co-founder and President of Our Best Work. I started the company in 2007 after 20 years of working in two large tech companies. My one purpose is to help people realize their potential through work. To a large degree, this is exactly how my practice has unfolded over the years and is where I focus my attention. I partner with people who want to use work as a spring-board to a deeper experience of life through their jobs. Through the use of their unique strengths, clients are able to collaborate with other team members and bring uncommon value to projects that make a difference in the lives of others. I use what I have learned as a senior manager in business along with my counseling and coaching skills to guide people through their own defined career-change process helping them discover their best options and articulate what they are willing to do to implement them. We build plans to achieve new career goals, learn skills to create lasting relationships, and use self-awareness to guide future actions. A career where it all comes together and people enjoy working with one another is really an amazing reality to create. And it can be done. The best part of this equation is that in this environment, people (employees) who have a job fit like this are very engaged, they do great work and want to stay doing it. I have many HR professionals contact me with questions about how to implement a similar process for their employees.
David has a Master’s degree in Speech Communication and Organizational Development from the University of Washington, was a senior marketing manager for Microsoft where he led international marketing initiatives, launched Microsoft’s Office certification program, and grew Microsoft’s Certified Professional program (MCP) into a strategic learning resource. His learning systems were used by 1.5 million members worldwide. Under David’s leadership, the MCP community became a major strategic resource helping Microsoft grow its worldwide desktop business.
Terry Musch is the co-founder of Our Best Work. He has a background in leading engineering teams on large scale aerospace programs and coaching senior leadership and their direct reports in the Nuclear Power Industry. Terry has a degree from the University of Washington and is a certified coach from the renowned Hudson Institute in Santa Barbara. As a master coach, Terry helps people engage with their work by finding meaning in their careers where they achieve important goals and succeed in difficult, schedule-driven environments.
Terry’s journey began with his deep desire to understand how to intentionally engage one’s unique strengths and choose assignments where these natural talents and skills can be applied. As a leader of large engineering teams, Terry experienced first-hand the level of frustration in his staff over finding fulfillment at work. He saw that his highest performers were also able to sculp their work so they could use their strongest skills and innate abilities on the job and with this become the highest performers. This began decades of research about how to help people consciously create, with intention and purpose, mindful careers. Terry coaches clients to experience the transformative nature of strengths-based careers. He helps them reclaim their authentic essence and to translate it into new direction, plans, actions and outcomes.