
Diana Cutaia
Founder of Coaching Peace Consulting
Diana Cutaia founded Coaching Peace in 2012, a company focused on using the power of play and connection to empower organizations and teams to create cultures of care, belonging, and peace.
However, the work started for Diana 25 years earlier when she first began to explore the meaning of peace. In that time, she hasn’t just defined it; she has built a brand bringing the principles of Coaching Peace to her vast clientele. Today her clients range from school districts to national organizations and global companies.
Diana takes pride in discussing how employers, sports teams, and organizations alike can challenge norms and define a culture that doesn’t just make people feel welcome but makes them feel like it was designed for them. She brings high energy, a sense of humor and great story telling to any conversation!
- Coach
- Consultant
- Entrepreneur
- 📍Portland, OR
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LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW WE COACH PEACE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS
- Youth Sports
- Collegiate Athletics
- Pro Sports
- Business & Government
- k-12 Schools
- Gender Equity in sports
- The connection between the patriarchy and sports
- LGBTQIA issues (internalized homophobia)
- Equity and Inclusion in the workplace
- Empathy (in sport, business, life)
- How sports were designed by men for men and why women struggle to be part of it.
- Toxic positivity and how it’s an empathy blocker
- Equity in sports (how sport itself is inequitable and perpetuates white supremacy and the patriarchy)
- Team building
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Before starting Coaching Peace, Diana was the Director of Athletics and Sport-based Initiatives for Wheelock College. Her unique approach to sports was featured on the front page of the Boston Globe, NCAA On Campus, and Athletic Management Magazine.
Diana also began the first-ever academic program in Sport-Based Youth Development at Wheelock College. She taught several courses (Sport and Society, Intro to SBYD, and Intro to Youth Sports Coaching). She also has introduced a Leadership in Coaching course for the Institute for Rowing Leadership and has been an adjunct instructor at Dean College and Northeastern University. Over the years, Diana has presented to colleges on topics ranging from diversity and gender equity to sportsmanship and decision making, as well as Title IX.
Diana's coaching experience includes serving as the head women's basketball coach at Curry College and as Assistant Women's Basketball Coach at Mount Holyoke College. She was also the head women's basketball coach at Norwalk Community College, where she took the women's basketball program to National Standing in only four years. Her Panthers finished three seasons ranked #1 in the New England Region and among the top eight in the Nation.

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Diana Cutaia
Founder of Coaching Peace Consulting
- Coach
- Consultant
- Entrepreneur
- 📍Portland, OR
Diana Cutaia founded Coaching Peace in 2012, a company focused on using the power of play and connection to empower organizations and teams to create cultures of care, belonging, and peace.
However, the work started for Diana 25 years earlier when she first began to explore the meaning of peace. In that time, she hasn’t just defined it; she has built a brand bringing the principles of Coaching Peace to her vast clientele. Today her clients range from school districts to national organizations and global companies.
Diana takes pride in discussing how employers, sports teams, and organizations alike can challenge norms and define a culture that doesn’t just make people feel welcome but makes them feel like it was designed for them. She brings high energy, a sense of humor and great story telling to any conversation!
read more
LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW WE COACH PEACE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS
- Youth Sports
- Collegiate Athletics
- Pro Sports
- Business & Government
- k-12 Schools
- Gender Equity in sports
- The connection between the patriarchy and sports
- LGBTQIA issues (internalized homophobia)
- Equity and Inclusion in the workplace
- Empathy (in sport, business, life)
- How sports were designed by men for men and why women struggle to be part of it.
- Toxic positivity and how it’s an empathy blocker
- Equity in sports (how sport itself is inequitable and perpetuates white supremacy and the patriarchy)
- Team building
--
Before starting Coaching Peace, Diana was the Director of Athletics and Sport-based Initiatives for Wheelock College. Her unique approach to sports was featured on the front page of the Boston Globe, NCAA On Campus, and Athletic Management Magazine.
Diana also began the first-ever academic program in Sport-Based Youth Development at Wheelock College. She taught several courses (Sport and Society, Intro to SBYD, and Intro to Youth Sports Coaching). She also has introduced a Leadership in Coaching course for the Institute for Rowing Leadership and has been an adjunct instructor at Dean College and Northeastern University. Over the years, Diana has presented to colleges on topics ranging from diversity and gender equity to sportsmanship and decision making, as well as Title IX.
Diana's coaching experience includes serving as the head women's basketball coach at Curry College and as Assistant Women's Basketball Coach at Mount Holyoke College. She was also the head women's basketball coach at Norwalk Community College, where she took the women's basketball program to National Standing in only four years. Her Panthers finished three seasons ranked #1 in the New England Region and among the top eight in the Nation.
BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Diana Cutaia
Founder of Coaching Peace Consulting
- 📍Portland, OR
- Coach
- Consultant
- Entrepreneur
Diana Cutaia founded Coaching Peace in 2012, a company focused on using the power of play and connection to empower organizations and teams to create cultures of care, belonging, and peace.
However, the work started for Diana 25 years earlier when she first began to explore the meaning of peace. In that time, she hasn’t just defined it; she has built a brand bringing the principles of Coaching Peace to her vast clientele. Today her clients range from school districts to national organizations and global companies.
Diana takes pride in discussing how employers, sports teams, and organizations alike can challenge norms and define a culture that doesn’t just make people feel welcome but makes them feel like it was designed for them. She brings high energy, a sense of humor and great story telling to any conversation!
read more
LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW WE COACH PEACE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS
- Youth Sports
- Collegiate Athletics
- Pro Sports
- Business & Government
- k-12 Schools
- Gender Equity in sports
- The connection between the patriarchy and sports
- LGBTQIA issues (internalized homophobia)
- Equity and Inclusion in the workplace
- Empathy (in sport, business, life)
- How sports were designed by men for men and why women struggle to be part of it.
- Toxic positivity and how it’s an empathy blocker
- Equity in sports (how sport itself is inequitable and perpetuates white supremacy and the patriarchy)
- Team building
--
Before starting Coaching Peace, Diana was the Director of Athletics and Sport-based Initiatives for Wheelock College. Her unique approach to sports was featured on the front page of the Boston Globe, NCAA On Campus, and Athletic Management Magazine.
Diana also began the first-ever academic program in Sport-Based Youth Development at Wheelock College. She taught several courses (Sport and Society, Intro to SBYD, and Intro to Youth Sports Coaching). She also has introduced a Leadership in Coaching course for the Institute for Rowing Leadership and has been an adjunct instructor at Dean College and Northeastern University. Over the years, Diana has presented to colleges on topics ranging from diversity and gender equity to sportsmanship and decision making, as well as Title IX.
Diana's coaching experience includes serving as the head women's basketball coach at Curry College and as Assistant Women's Basketball Coach at Mount Holyoke College. She was also the head women's basketball coach at Norwalk Community College, where she took the women's basketball program to National Standing in only four years. Her Panthers finished three seasons ranked #1 in the New England Region and among the top eight in the Nation.
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“Cutaia can engage even a post-dinner crowd of exhausted parents in discussing abstract concepts, such as developing empathy in kids, creating sportsmanship in athletes or boosting the overall culture.”
Diana Cutaia discusses the recent trends of student athletes bringing bad coaching to light