Donna Ottaviano-Britt.
Advisory Board
Donna Ottaviano-Britt is a disciple of Jesus, a loving wife to Joe (her very own St. Joseph), who has coached for 25+ years in multiple environments. She built a breadth and depth of skills and experiences with a global company – serving clients in the US and abroad – before bringing her gifts, talents and expertise to serve the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Camden in 2018. Donna’s areas of expertise are in leadership, coaching, sales, strategic innovation and learning and development.
She is the first director of the Office of Discipleship and Leadership, and is dedicated to exploring, piloting and evolving the many paths of becoming a missionary disciple – so all can live into their baptismal calling. This involves equipping and supporting the co-responsible clergy and laity in their missionary work in the 21st century.
A critical pathway for discipleship and leadership is creating a culture of affirmation and calling. Donna is creating opportunities for clergy and laity – through coaching – to shine a bright light on the unique and unrepeatable God-given design of each person. These coaching experiences are specifically intended to recognize and celebrate who a person uniquely is. This beautiful gifting remains at the heart of her work in service to the Mystical Body.
In collaboration with key strategic partners, her office has designed, developed and implemented a coaching experience for clergy, the Gifted Leadership Journey. Each priest is provided executive coaching accompaniment to reveal and affirm his uniqueness as a child of God and as a priest of Jesus – uniquely called to the priesthood for his gifts and talents.
Donna is launching a new ‘ministry of accompaniment coaching’ for the laity, so they too can answer their missional calling for which they have been uniquely created. For as St. John Newman said, ‘God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another.’
Advisory Board Service:
- Advisory Council Member, Transformative Leadership in Disruptive Times, Seton Hall University
https://www.shu.edu/business/executive-certificate-programs/leadership-in-a-disruptive-time/ - Sól Recruiting, Coaching and Consulting, Colorado Springs, CO
https://www.solrcc.com/ - Catholic Business Network of South Jersey
https://cbnsj.org/
She also hosts the Talking Catholic YouTube show, Joyful Disciples, a show dedicated to highlighting joyful followers of Jesus.
Member: The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
- The only lay institution of the Vatican State charged with the task of providing for the needs of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and of all the activities and initiatives to support the Christian presence in the Holy Land.





















