Candidly Charming Leadership

Honest. Human. Transformative.

Dr. Allana Coffee helps leaders and teams communicate with clarity, navigate healthy conflict, and build the trust that lasting performance requires.

Licensed psychologist30+ years of experienceHawaiʻi-based
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Candidly Charming LeadershipInsight people can understand and actually use.

The Coffee Consulting approach

Drop the performance.
Lead with authenticity, humility, and trust.

Portrait of Dr. Allana Coffee

Clinical insight, translated for real-world leadership.

Dr. Coffee understands people—and the systems they work within.

Allana Wade Coffee, Ph.D., is a Hawaiʻi-based licensed psychologist, educator, consultant, and leadership coach with decades of experience helping individuals, families, teams, and organizations communicate more honestly and lead more effectively.

She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in 2004 and completed a four-year respecialization certificate in Clinical Psychology in 2012. Since 1995, her work has spanned public and private education, community mental health, Kaiser Permanente, and private practice.

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Built around the needs of your people

Leadership support that meets the moment.

Each engagement is tailored to your organization’s goals, team dynamics, and timeline.

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Executive Strategy Consultation

A modular engagement that aligns leadership development with organizational goals and real team dynamics.

Discuss an engagement →
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Leadership Coaching

One-to-one support for leaders applying new skills to decisions, transitions, and difficult conversations.

Explore coaching →
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New-Hire Leadership Onboarding

A tailored pathway into your organization’s leadership style, shared language, and active initiatives.

Support a new leader →
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Staff Training and Coaching

Ongoing reinforcement that helps communication practices endure beyond a single workshop.

Strengthen your team →

Shared learning. Practical application.

Move from knowing better to leading better.

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Learning Lab One

Trust and Healthy Conflict

Build the trust required for candor, learn to engage productive conflict, and establish shared language for communication and feedback.

  • Core values
  • Trust and vulnerability
  • Healthy conflict
  • Communication feedback
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Learning Lab Two

Commitment and Accountability

Translate honest conversation into clear commitments, shared behavioral expectations, ownership, and measurable results.

  • Role clarity
  • Behavioral expectations
  • Accountability
  • Results and KPIs

Wellness retreats

Step away from the noise. Return with more clarity.

Custom retreat experiences combine Dr. Coffee’s grounding in psychology, leadership, movement, and honest conversation. Designed for teams, women leaders, and communities ready to reconnect with themselves and one another.

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Speaking and facilitation

Complex ideas, made human.

From classrooms to corporate leadership teams, Dr. Coffee makes evidence-based insight accessible, relevant, and useful. Her facilitation style creates enough warmth for people to engage—and enough candor for the work to matter.

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A career across psychology, education, and community

Grounded in Hawaiʻi. Reaching far beyond it.

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Since 1995

Work across education, community mental health, Kaiser Permanente, and private practice.

Curriculum and training

Professional training for domestic violence treatment and published resources for communication and anger-management skills.

DOE perspective

Experience as a student, teacher, and consultant within the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education.

Let’s begin

What could become possible if your team could be more candid?

Tell Dr. Coffee what your leaders or organization are navigating. Every engagement begins with a conversation.