Dima Ghawi Developing Leaders To Meet The Demands Of the Global Workforce And Helping Organizations Engage Diverse Teams

Diversity Blindness™: many companies don’t realize they have 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 new understanding of managing resistance, tracking progress, and creating a climate that celebrates diversity in their company.

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. 

Confidence is essential for empowerment. Believing in one’s self translates to all aspects of being, creating a ripple effect into professional and personal life. 

In this keynote, Dima inspires the audience to realize their self-worth and revolutionize the way they perceive and project themselves to the world. She takes them on a journey leading them to appreciate their uniqueness and value. Dima uses her transformation story as a powerful teaching tool to encourage others to face and conquer their internal limitations. Her story will resonate with each audience member and spark a guiding light for their path to elevating their confidence. 

The attendees leave feeling inspired to create a strong sense of self-worth, using their voices without fear, and taking the necessary risks to emerge as confident individuals and leaders. 

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.

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.

Dealing with low self-awareness, confidence, and self-worth has negative implications on the leader’s effectiveness and influence on the team and the business performance. 
 
Dima believes that the world is hungry for self-aware leaders who can create a positive impact within organizations and throughout communities. This type of leadership starts from within through self-leadership by developing confidence, self-awareness, and self-worth. As the first step in the journey to self-leadership, Dima motivates audience members to stop and think about their uniqueness, brand identity, goals, aspirations, and internal limitations that are holding them back. Next, the audience is provided with the tools they need to hone in on their unique attributes and conquer the internal limitations that directly affect business performance, teamwork, and employee engagement. Finally, the audience members will be led to break the routine cycles that keep many stagnant in fear, become more self-aware, open their eyes to their potential, and develop the courage to take action.  

Internal limitations play a big role in inhibiting women from advancing in leadership.  
 
Inspired by her TEDx Talk, Dima uses her personal story of transformation as a powerful teaching tool to encourage women 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 individuals and leaders.  
 
This keynote is customizable to audiences from various industries and job roles such as women in sales, attorneys, finance, etc.