Darcy Luoma, creator of Thoughtfully Fit®, is the founder and CEO of Darcy Luoma Coaching & Consulting, a firm that specializes in solving organization’s people problems. She’s a sought-after coach and consultant who has worked in forty-eight industries, with more than five hundred different client organizations, impacting tens of thousands of leaders and employees. Darcy is also author of Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life & Business Success, published by Harper Horizon and #1 New Release in Work Life Balance in Business.
She is one of America’s most highly credentialed coaches, earning the prestigious Master Certified Coach from the International Coach Federation—a distinction held by only 3.8% of coaches in the world. The University of Wisconsin–Madison, a Big10 university, sought out Darcy to design its rigorous 9-month Certified Professional Coach training program. She served as the program’s director, lead instructor, and then director of training and quality assurance since its inception.
Before Darcy began her firm in 2013, she served as the director of U.S. Senator Herb Kohl’s office for twelve years, did national advance work for the White House, worked for two U.S. presidential campaigns, and served as a trusted senior advisor and deputy transition director to a governor.
She received the distinguished Certified Speaking Professional™ (CSP®) award from the National Speakers Association, the largest speaker’s association in the world. She has spoken at more than five hundred events in front of audiences ranging from twenty-five to twenty-five hundred every month.
She has a Master of Science in Organization Development from Pepperdine University Graziadio Business School. As an undergraduate she double majored in German and Mathematics, but the only time she uses these skills is when trying to double a recipe for German Black Forest Cake.
For the last twenty-three years she has been an avid triathlete and Ironman. She uses her grit and determination in both her athletic and professional endeavors.
Along with her favorite job being a mom of two energetic teenage daughters, she enjoys adventure travel, yin yoga, kickboxing, spicy chai lattes, and afternoon naps.