Assistant Professor – Yale Child Study Center

Director for Leadership Development and Coaching Initiatives – Offices of Academic & Professional Development (OAPD) and Collaborative Excellence (OCE)

Connecticut| United States

Daryn H. David, PhD, PCC, is a licensed clinical psychologist, academic, and leadership development coach. At the Yale School of Medicine, Daryn is an Assistant Professor at the Child Study Center and serves as Director for Leadership Development and Coaching Initiatives in the Offices of Academic & Professional Development (OAPD) and Collaborative Excellence (OCE).

Through dynamic leadership development programming, coaching, and scholarship, Daryn leverages her expertise to help academics and health care providers actualize their fullest professional potential. She is the creator of the esteemed a-LEAP Coaching Skills Program for individuals working in academia, and her scholarship on the significance of the coach approach for the holistic development of knowledge workers has been published in outlets including JAMA and the Journal of Healthcare Leadership. 

Daryn is particularly interested in catalyzing initiatives with the potential to expand the culture of academic medicine beyond its individualistic reward structure to one that also values collective well-being, interdependent generativity, and problem-solving grounded in wisdom, strengths, and emergent possibility.

Daryn holds a Bachelor of Arts (AB) degree in Social Studies from Harvard University and a PhD in psychology from Yale University, where she likewise completed her predoctoral clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship. She has also completed extensive coursework and practice hours to earn the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the International Coaching Federation.