About the Founder and CEO:

Diane Garza is an executive coach and leadership educator, and the CEO of iCatalyze, a global organizational consulting and training firm that helps high-growth startups and enterprise teams strengthen collaboration and retain top talent.

A certified leadership coach, Diane partners with founders and C-suite leaders to turn people strategy into performance through science-backed methods, including Gallup CliftonStrengths, DiSC, The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, Adaptive Leadership, psychological safety, and feedback and growth conversations based on Radical Candor.

Diane designs and facilitates executive off-sites, manager training, and team diagnostics for companies such as Microsoft, SAP, Burger King, Tim Hortons, Kueski, Yalo, Incode, and other venture-backed startups.

Recent engagements include: strengths-based leadership and cross-functional alignment for global restaurant brands; quarterly off-sites for a remote-first startup’s executive team to improve decision velocity and trust using DISC, Five Behaviors, EQ, and courageous conversations; and manager workshops at a tech scale-up on growth conversations and high-quality feedback to increase engagement and accountability.

For 16+ years, Diane has designed executive leadership programs and taught at Georgetown University, developing leaders across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

Her approach is dynamic, engaging, and results-driven: compassionate enough to build psychological safety, and challenging enough to shift behavior where it counts.

Her forthcoming book, EQ Playbook: Navigating People, Power, and Purpose (2025), distills practical tools to lead with emotional intelligence in high-pressure, high-growth environments. She has been featured by CNN en Español, Entrepreneur en Español, Thrive Global, and Latino Leaders Magazine, and hosts the Spanish-language podcast iCatalyze Leadership Lab.

Diane holds a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a Master’s Degree in Social Responsibility from Anahuac University in Mexico. She has a Certification in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University and postgraduate studies in leadership from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.