Lance Diaresco
Google Coaching by Mastery Co-Founder | Disney VP APAC | Lead with Clarity, Trust & Impact
Reviews
"Lance has a remarkable ability to build authentic connection and trust. Through powerful storytelling and practical frameworks, he inspired my teams and helped lay the foundation for high-performance, built on trust and mutual respect. Any organization would be fortunate to have Lance help shape their culture. "
Lucy Werner
Senior Vice President - Global Partnership
Marriott International
"Lance has a unique strength as a business leader and executive coach. He is trusted by my team for facilitating different programs including coaching, feedback, negotiation, and competitive selling. He also helped our leadership team develop our vision and mission. "
Michael Yue
Managing Director and GM - Hong Kong
Google
"Lance created and scaled Disney’s Brand Stewardship Training for our growing international cast members. He inspired us to uphold the trust consumers place in Disney while bringing together brand strategy, consumer insight, and powerful storytelling. "
Charlie Cain
Senior Vice President - Global Brand Management
The Walt Disney Company
About Lance Diaresco
Growing up in poverty and losing his father at seven, Lance developed the resilience, courage and compassion that would later define his work. Scholarships opened doors to some of the world's most innovative companies, where he spent three decades leading through transformation. What he saw, consistently, was this: the leaders who thrive are the ones who see more clearly, build deeper trust, and create more meaningful impact. He calls it Strategic Discernment.
Speaking
Speaking engagement:
Keynote | Conference Speaker, Trainer | Mentor, Coach
Expertise:
Leadership, Business | Management | Strategy, Future | Trends
Field of Speaker:
Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Innovators | Visionairs
Best Audience:
Csuite/ Executives, Managers/ Supervisors
Travels from:
Portugal
Fee range:
from $18000 up to $25000
Topics
1. As AI Becomes Smarter, What Makes Leaders Wiser?
AI is making every organisation smarter: more data, faster analysis, better predictions. But the hardest decisions are rarely between right and wrong. They are between growth and efficiency, speed and rigour, innovation and risk. No system, however intelligent, can determine what should matter most, which trade-offs are worth making, or whose values should govern when they conflict. Those are human judgments, and they require discernment. Yet in most organisations, discernment is systematically undermined. Pressure narrows thinking. Groupthink filters out challenge. Assumptions go unquestioned. The result: costly decisions that could have been avoided and missed opportunities. As AI makes decision-making more decentralised, building discernment as an organisational capability becomes essential. Leaders make clearer decisions under pressure. Teams surface honest information rather than filtering it upward. And organisations act on what genuinely matters. AI is your engine. Discernment is your compass.
2. Building High-Trust Teams That Speak Up & Step Up
Most leaders are not getting the full picture. People filter the issues before they go up. They avoid debate that can improve decisions. The root cause is not capability. People have learned, accurately, what is safe to say. Trust is built in the moments that cost something. Lance shows leaders how to build discernment: mastering their response under pressure, turning friction into productive challenge, and navigating the polarities between support and challenge, empathy and accountability, autonomy and intervention. Acting with integrity, from what you honestly see rather than from what is safe, is what makes those moments possible. The result: teams that surface what matters, make better decisions, and take the risks needed for growth and innovation. Discerning leaders create a culture where everyone speaks up, steps up, and delivers.
3. Expanding Your Impact: From Success to Significance
In business, ROI measures return on investment. In life, ROI measures ripples of impact. Every senior leader eventually asks the same question: What's next? As John Maxwell put it: "Success is when I add value to myself. Significance is when I add value to others." The shift from one to the other requires discernment. Shifting from a career building global brands to a calling developing leaders, Lance guides senior leaders through the Me-We-World Compass™: Who am I becoming? How am I connecting? What am I contributing? Support this shift and you keep what no hiring process can replicate: the judgment, relationships, and mentorship of wise leaders. Those that don't risk watching them disengage and wait for retirement. Lead wisely. Live fully.
Program
Workshops
For organisations that want to go deeper, Lance offers workshops designed to build the critical capabilities:
Workshop 1: Performance by Design:
Individual Strengths to Collective Performance
Workshop 2: The Discerning Coach:
Developing People while Delivering Results
Workshop 3: Courageous Leadership:
Turning Tension into Innovation
Reviews
Lucy Werner
Senior Vice President - Global Partnership, Marriott InternationalLance has a remarkable ability to build authentic connection and trust. Through powerful storytelling and practical frameworks, he inspired my teams and helped lay the foundation for high-performance, built on trust and mutual respect. Any organization would be fortunate to have Lance help shape their culture.
Michael Yue
Managing Director and GM - Hong Kong, GoogleLance has a unique strength as a business leader and executive coach. He is trusted by my team for facilitating different programs including coaching, feedback, negotiation, and competitive selling. He also helped our leadership team develop our vision and mission.
Charlie Cain
Senior Vice President - Global Brand Management, The Walt Disney CompanyLance created and scaled Disney’s Brand Stewardship Training for our growing international cast members. He inspired us to uphold the trust consumers place in Disney while bringing together brand strategy, consumer insight, and powerful storytelling.