About Us

Our Principles

We are customer centric.

We enjoy 1:1 relationships with our clients, which enables us to deeply understand their objectives and priorities. While we employ proven practices and a systematic approach, each solution we deliver is bespoke and exactly tailored to ensure success.

We are future focused.

We are perpetual learners with an eye on industry and societal trends that will affect your business. When we combine this future focus with our knowledge of what has proven successful in the past, we design solutions that will work now and in the longer term.


We believe in people.

We admire humans' capacity for wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, and transcendence. We are passionate about helping leaders improve their impact.  Our expectation is that this positive impact will spread to improve employees’ lives, their families’ circumstances, and our communities.

Coach and Consultant Diane Isler

Our Founder

Diane Isler

Diane Isler has decades of experience creating award-winning results both leading and consulting with dozens of businesses. Her passion is driving better decisions, and she has accomplished this goal in the consumer packaged goods, retail, market research, and quick-serve restaurant industries. A fresh perspective fuels her capability to uncover strategic opportunities and design elegant solutions beyond the status quo. Diane fearlessly busts problems to drive revenue growth with higher profitability. She is a catalyst for change who elevates the competitive playing field by using research insights and trends analysis to counter outside disruptive forces. Diane can design, create and lead high performing organizations motivated to maximize ROI of data investment. She has a track record of exceeding goals utilizing her broad experience-based skill set.


Diane earned her MBA from Xavier University. Her undergraduate degree in Systems Analysis is from Miami University. Her coaching certification in Business Coaching is from the World Coach Institute. 


While she is proud of her academic qualifications, her real-world experience shapes illuminim - from her early career designing information systems at Procter & Gamble, to reshaping P&G’s Sales Organization with Category Management, to producing tools at Nielsen BASES that enable Marketing Leaders to quickly evaluate the impact of changes to marketing plans, to building the insight organization at Kao USA from the ground up, to creating Kao’s Global Insight Academy, to leading Numerator’s Customer Success organization across CPG, Retail, and QSR.


Diane currently volunteers in a few capacities.  At Save The Animals Foundation (STAF) she cares for the dogs and cats, develops corporate relationships, fundraises, and develops strategic plans as a member of the Board of Directors.   At the Cincinnati Lapidary Guild, she developed a strategic plan and now serves on the Board of Directors executing that plan.

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