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Dima Ghawi

Dima is an award-winning author and international keynote speaker. Her unique story has empowered audiences globally.

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Ignite the leader within, and equip your team with the tools to conquer the limitations that directly affect business performance, teamwork and employee engagement.

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About Dima Ghawi

Dima's engaging personal stories and interactive presentations create an experience that empowers audiences across cultures, professions, and generations. Dima ignites the untapped potential in individuals worldwide, empowering them to shatter limitations and become courageous leaders. Her own journey is one of escaping confinement, crossing continents, and transforming her life's purpose. Harnessing the power of her story, Dima is committed to inspiring others to attain personal and professional growth.

Speaking

Speaking engagement:

Keynote | Conference Speaker, Trainer | Mentor, Webinar | Live Video, Breakout Session, Interview | Debate | Panel, Coach

Expertise:

Motivation | Achievement | Inspiration, Leadership, Business | Management | Strategy

Field of Speaker:

Business Leaders, Authors, Business Coaches

Best Audience:

Women, Managers/ Supervisors, Associations

Travels from:

United States

Language:

English, Arabic

Fee range:

from $2000 up to $5000

Topics

Dare to thrive

Inspired by her TEDx Talk, Dima uses her personal story of transformation as a powerful teaching tool to encourage individuals to face and conquer their internal limitations. This keynote recounts the struggles and triumphs of her personal journey with vulnerability and insight that will resonate with each audience member and spark a guiding light for their individual journey of self-discovery and leadership growth. By addressing internal limitations, such as the fear of failure, worries about being judged, and the pursuit of perfection, Dima dares each individual to look deeper into their own internal limitations and equips them with the tools and inspiration it takes to shatter those limitations and emerge as empowered leaders.

Passport to leadership

This keynote covers three key elements of successful leadership. The lessons are delivered through humorous and emotion-filled stories, group activities, and engaging exercises. Dima utilizes her global business experience and background in leadership training with Fortune 100 companies to communicate the essence of leadership. The three sections of the presentation cover: Dare: Leadership starts internally with confidence, self-awareness, and self-worth. To be effective, individuals must face the internal negative beliefs that inhibit personal and career growth; they must dare to shatter their fear of failure, the worry of being judged, and the pursuit of perfection. Rise: Great leaders focus on the human element, support their team every step of the way, and stay connected with them as they climb the mountain of leadership. The leader rises as the team rises. The world needs dedicated leaders that care and focus on employee engagement and team morale. Inspire: Great leaders challenge the norm and envision how things could be better than they are. They take bold actions to create a better future for their team, their organization, and themselves.

elevate your professional brand

Brands have the power to influence people’s perception, and by understanding your personal and company’s brands, you have the power to strengthen the perception of your uniqueness and value. In this presentation, through humorous stories, provoking messages, and engaging activates, Dima shares with her audience three elements of professional branding by looking: · Inward: understanding the strengths that you have to offer · Outward: projecting a positive external and online presence · Onward: using your internal and external brand to reach your goals These elements inspire the audience to become intentional in projecting a professional image and owning their unique brands, which will propel them forward towards their goals and empowers them to expand their potential.

How to Future-Proof Your Company: Engaging Gen Y to Z ™

Millennials have begun a positive disruption in the workplace that will continue in the generations after them, and while many companies have still not adapted their culture to millennials, a whole new generation is ready to enter the workplace. In this keynote, Dima shares lessons derived from her experience globally training, developing, and engaging over 500 millennials for Fortune 100 companies. She explores the keys to unlocking the millennial mind in order to better engage them in the workplace, give them the purpose they crave in their work, and inspire them to overachieve. Dima guides the audience members through a shift in perception that is essential in order to prepare companies for Gen Z. By bridging the disconnect between generations, companies will be able to harness the creative and innovative talents of their employees while keeping them dedicated to the company’s mission.

Elevating Employee Engagement

Only 13% of the global workforce feels engaged (Gallup Research). This has a direct negative impact on the bottom line. In this keynote, Dima helps participants discover the pivotal role of employee engagement and provides powerful methods for promoting employees’ purpose, ownership, and self-leadership. The content places an emphasis on fostering a happy and lucrative work environment for employees, connecting them with their strengths and career aspirations. Dima teaches the participants methods for creating a more positive company culture that results in lower employee turnover, improved quality of work, improved overall morale, and a positive influence on the company’s bottom line.

Diversity and Inclusion: Worth More Than Gold

Diversity Blindness™: many companies don’t realize they have a lack of diversity and don’t understand how to be intentional in creating diversity in their workplace There is compelling research that diversity increases the competitive advantage of companies, enhances creativity, and elevates employee engagement. Despite this, there is still resistance to workplace diversity. Through engaging personal narratives, Dima shares the many different types of diversity beyond race and gender and covers its proven benefits. She provides the audience with tools to enable them to increase diversity in their teams and focus on attracting, engaging, and retaining diverse talent. The audience gains a new understanding of managing resistance, tracking progress, and creating a climate that celebrates diversity in their company.

Beyond the Image of Diversity: How to Create a Culture of Inclusion

While it is reassuring that more organizations recognize the value of diversity in their teams and are implementing metrics to measure progress, the real goal of diversity is to create a culture of inclusion and belonging. By focusing on establishing an inclusive environment, organizations can unlock the true value of diversity. In this presenation, Dima Ghawi presents three tips based on workplace surveys and interviews that she has conducted across a variety of organizations. They include: * Providing insight into what employees need to feel welcomed and included. * Managing change and creating a courageous culture, instrumental for handling conscious and unconscious biases, micro-aggressions, and resistance to inclusion initiatives. * Structuring and utilizing Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), valuable affinity groups that provide a support network and education opportunity for their members and also increase awareness across the organization. Creating a culture of inclusion is no longer simply “a nice to have.” Instead, it is essential for recruiting, engaging, and retaining top talent, and, as a result, increasing the competitive advantage of the organization. Audience members leave with actionable takeaways that can be employed to create a productive, engaging, and inclusive workplace for their team.

Program

Elevating Employee Engagement

Only 13% of the global workforce feels engaged (Gallup Research). This has a direct negative impact on the bottom line. In this workshop, Dima helps participants discover the pivotal role of employee engagement and provides powerful methods for promoting employees’ purpose, ownership, and self-leadership. The content places an emphasis on fostering a happy and lucrative work environment for employees, connecting them with their strengths and career aspirations. Dima teaches the participants methods for creating a more positive company culture that results in lower employee turnover, improved quality of work, improved overall morale, and a positive influence on the company’s bottom line.

Taking your Career to the Next Level: 5 Keys to Professional Development

Talented individuals at every stage in their career can often feel stagnant and underprepared for advancement. In this workshop, Dima provides a roadmap that includes five essential topics that are critical for professional growth. Attendees leave with individual action plans that address each one of the five topics, in addition to feeling challenged to pursue goals out of their comfort zone and inspired to continue to advance. Topics include: Developing and elevating your brand Utilizing your network for professional growth Building relationships and engaging clients Developing a sales mindset Planning your career path and goal setting Dima’s roadmap has been proven successful with clients she coaches and trains globally, and is sure to foster the professional growth of each attendee once implemented.

Leading Across Time Zones and Diverse Cultures

Missed business opportunities due to the lack of global business understanding. With an in-depth proficiency in global leadership and management, Dima guides participants through activities that help them develop effective global communication skills. They will learn how to open doors to the understanding and appreciation of cultural differences in order to develop stronger teams that will reach higher business outcomes. Through her unique multi-cultural view of business, Dima empowers her audience to learn the foundation elements required to build trust and nurture relationships regardless of one’s cultural background.

Media

Books

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Breaking Vases

Breaking Vases powerfully and vividly captures the rich heritage of one woman’s Middle East, along with its brutal realities, which followed Dima Ghawi from her native Jordan to her adopted country, the United States. Brought up in a small, conservative Christian community in Amman, Dima learned to be quiet and subservient to her elders and to men. When she was just five, Dima’s beloved grandmother warned that a woman’s greatest responsibility was to preserve her image—one as fragile as a glass vase—and the honor of her family’s reputation. Anything less was shameful. Yet her grandmother also planted a seed: the simple hope that Dima could graduate from college and become the first formally educated woman in her family.At nineteen, hoping to free herself from cultural constraints and her father’s turbulent temper, she accepted a traditional marriage proposal from an older, affluent, and seemingly Western-minded jeweler. Newly married and in a state of naïve love, she happily uprooted her life in Amman and moved with him to California. But San Diego’s “Little Middle East” was not her American dream. She soon realized that her husband was more traditional and controlling than she had imagined. Changing her circumstances would be dangerous and require courage Dima had never known before. Nevertheless, she was determined to transform her destiny, even if it meant standing alone and facing life-threatening consequences. Her memoir captures the terrors and joys of escaping confinements, crossing continents, and daring to discover and create a bold identity and life purpose.

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News

News cover Winner of the Writer's Digest Grand Prize Award

Winner of the Writer's Digest Grand Prize Award

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News cover 2019 Influential Women in Business

2019 Influential Women in Business

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InRegister Magazine Feature

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News cover Baton Rouge motivational speaker, leadership coach Dima Ghawi releases memoir

Baton Rouge motivational speaker, leadership coach Dima Ghawi releases memoir

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News cover Louisiana Literature: 'Breaking Vases' by Dima Ghawi

Louisiana Literature: 'Breaking Vases' by Dima Ghawi

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Indie Reader Book Review

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Reviews

A. Begnaud

Marketing Director

Dima's very personal presentation made us laugh, cry, and feel bold enough to discuss shattering the limitations in our lives.

J. G.

CEO | Creative Director, Be the Focus

Dima is one of the most thought provoking speakers I've heard. Dima's charisma, passion, and true life experiences captured everyone in the room's attention and respect. It is obvious to me why so many people vie for her mentorship.

K. B.

President, Greater Baton Rouge Society for Human Resource Management

Dima has a great way of storytelling with both humor and inspiration and takes the participants on a journey with her. Even while discussing important leadership topics, the presentation was delivered in an engaging way that kept the attendees interested.

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