“Dawn Nelson brilliantly guides readers in getting off autopilot and intentionally creating lives filled with meaning and joy. The Pivot Process is an essential toolkit for anyone seeking the freedom and power of authentic self-expression.”
Tim Simmerman-Sierra, Director, Hypnotherapy Academy of America; Co-Founder, International Board of Hypnotherapy
The Pivot Process
Unleashing Your Creative Potential
“The Pivot Process” is the result of Dawn’s years of refining a method that works at any stage of life, whether you’re pivoting careers or redesigning important aspects of your personal life.
Using her practical, science-backed framework, “The Pivot Process” will show you:
How to identify the outdated programming running your life
Why your amygdala keeps you stuck, and how to work with your brain instead of against it
The proven pivot methodology that helps you leave burnout behind and create a life you love
A step-by-step 90-day plan that you can start implementing today
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As the CEO and founder of Mark Kamin & Associates, our company has been delivering training, coaching, and consulting for nearly forty five years to many of the world’s best-known organizations: Exxon-Mobil, IBM, General Electric, Shell Oil, Wells Fargo Mortgage, ENI Petroleum, Ford Aerospace, Hewlitt Packard, and others.
In 2025 INC Magazine named us as one of the best in the world at what we do. At any given time we have about eighty organizations we are consulting (www.mka-world.com ).
Our business model rests on a commitment to the transformation of organizations. We do not work with individuals on the issues and possibilities in their personal lives. We are in the business of business, not
individual coaching.
If my customers seek a coach for their personal lives….like how to make a life change, deal with fulfilling their personal aspirations, I refer them to Dawn Nelson. That is her niche. I know of no one who comports themselves with her level of professionalism and integrity that does
personal coaching.
I highly highly recommend her in this field.
- Mark Kamin CEO Mark Kamin & Associates, Inc.
Meet Dawn Nelson MSW, CPC
Dawn Nelson, MSW, CPC, is a Certified Professional Coach with over 20 years of coaching experience. She spent 25 years in private practice as a licensed psychotherapist and is also a trained clinical hypnotherapist. She retired from both to focus exclusively on coaching and teaching and has guided hundreds of professionals through meaningful personal and career transitions. Dawn believes in creating lives and businesses by design. Drawing on neuroscience, evidence-based approaches, and strategic coaching, she helps accomplished individuals align their work, relationships, and life choices with their deepest values. When she’s not coaching, Dawn enjoys hiking, kickboxing, traveling, and spending time outdoors with family and friends.
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
THE PIVOT PROCESS
Are you traveling down the right road in life?
If you’ve ever sat in a work meeting celebrating your success while feeling completely empty inside, this book is for you.
You’ve mastered your career. You’ve hit the milestones. You’ve built the life you thought you wanted. But somewhere along the way, you lost yourself.
You’re stuck between the life you have and the life you actually want. And you don’t know how to bridge the gap without losing everything you’ve worked for.
THE PIVOT PROCESS
Unleashing Your Creative Potential
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Endorsements for
The Pivot Process
Drawing on decades of experience helping clients create positive change, Dawn distills her wisdom into a practical, road-tested guide for those ready to live with greater awareness, purpose, and authenticity. It is also highly recommended reading for mental health counselors, life coaches, and hypnotherapists who support others in creating meaningful and lasting change.”
"In these pages, Dawn Nelson offers you a process that helps you connect to yourself and your intuition deeply while providing you with practical tools and practices. The resources offered here will help you address likely sticky spots, create practices that you will really use and stick with, and find your way to live a life that is meaningful to you. Plus, it is rooted in solid science. What a gift."
Dawn Nelson's book, The Pivot Process is a compelling read for anyone desiring a transformational and purposeful life. Dawn's collective experience over three decades first as a Psychotherapist and then as a Life Coach culminates in a remarkably practical, hand-held resource that any reader can put into practice immediately.
“The only thing that’s keeping you from what you want is the story you keep telling yourself."
- Tony Robbins
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Real People. Real Results
Dawn Nelson has been an incredible life coach and a truly positive influence in my life. She has a remarkable ability to listen, understand and provide thoughtful guidance without judging or undue pressure. What I appreciate most about Dawn is that she doesn’t simply tell you what you want to hear. She asks the right questions, challenges you to look at things from a different perspective, and helps you recognize your own strengths and possibilities. Her encouragement, honesty, and genuine caring make a real difference.
Few people have influenced my personal and professional growth as meaningfully as Dawn has. During some of the most pivotal transitions in my life, she helped me find the clarity, confidence and focus to move forward with purpose and peace. Dawn has an extraordinary ability to balance accountability with genuine empathy and compassion, which created an environment where real transformation was able to happen. She kept me focused and working on my goals, and what we accomplished together has lasted for years and is evident today. Dawn is one of the most effective coaches I have ever encountered and I thank her deeply for the partnership.
Working with Dawn Nelson has been instrumental in helping me become the best person I can be. Her coaching has made a positive impact in my life. I believe we all have God-given talents and coaching is hers. She has helped me create more balance in various aspects of my life: being a better dad, improving my communication skills - including approaching difficult conversations more effectively, enhancing the way I lead, and generally improving outcomes in my life. This year alone, with Dawn's coaching, I have completed fourteen significant goals and am very pleased with this progress.

