Uncommon Courage: Shattering Limitations and Daring to Thrive
Dima Ghawi’s story of personal transformation encourages audiences to confront and conquer their self-imposed limitations.
As Dima recounts her own struggles and triumphs, her vulnerability and insight ignites the attendees’ own journeys of hope and self-discovery.
Dima dares individuals to examine their internal limitations, such as the pursuit of perfection, the fear of failure, or the worry of being judged. She then equips audience members with the tools and courage it takes to shatter those limitations and emerge as empowered individuals and leaders.
Audiences will learn:
- The importance of self-awareness and how effective personal leadership starts from within.
- How conscious professionals lead to better teamwork, enhanced communication, and an improvement in the overall organizational culture.
- How internal limitations inhibit individuals from performing at their best and prevent them from advancing professionally.
Key attendee takeaways:
- Elevate employee engagement and team morale by encouraging risk-taking and increasing individual self-awareness.
- Shattering internal limitations creates more confident and conscious leaders.
- By increasing courage in organizations, creativity and innovation also increase, improving bottom-line results.
Unstoppable Courage: Harnessing the Power of an Inclusive Culture
Creating a culture of inclusion is no longer simply a “nice to have.” Inclusion is essential for recruiting, engaging, and retaining top talent, making it a competitive advantage for any company.
In this keynote, Dima Ghawi shares over two decades’ worth of findings gathered through hundreds of interviews and workplace surveys on how to create a welcoming and inclusive workforce.
Dima’s real-life experiences with organizations around the world, as well as her unique and fascinating upbringing in the Middle East, bring to life for audiences the critical importance of diversity and inclusion.
Through powerful storytelling and personal narratives, Dima deconstructs conscious and unconscious biases, guiding attendees on how to address common workplace resistance to DEI. She reveals to leaders the plethora of ways that increasing inclusion creates a safe and healthy culture. More than picture-perfect diversity, this presentation shows audience members how to foster a sense of inclusion within their own workspaces and their everyday lives.
Audiences will learn:
- How to create a safe and inclusive workplace culture.
- The meaning of unconscious bias and its effect in the workplace.
- What diverse employees are looking for and how to integrate these needs into management styles.
Key attendee takeaways:
- The insight of a bottom-up approach and the power of affinity groups in creating an inclusive workspace.
- Actionable tips on how to lead a courageous and integrative workplace culture.
- Best practices for creating a more productive, engaging, and inclusive workplace for all employees.
Unstoppable Courage: Inspiring Bold Leadership & Creating Engaged Employees
Healthy work cultures are ones that thrive. They are created and passed down, inherited by the next generation of employees. The strongest leaders know to focus on a long-term strategy with an emphasis on corporate cultural health for future generations to sustain, support, and grow.
For over two decades, Dima Ghawi has worked with Fortune 20 corporations and diverse teams around the world. Through her work with IBM in Leadership Training and Development across 19 countries, she gained critical insights into what it takes to lead global teams. She recognized that bold leadership, employee engagement, and DEI were not only inextricably linked, but that they were also universally important across cultures.
Her experience has given her a practical, unique perspective into how to be an effective leader in the global age:
- START WITH TRUST TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS: Trust is the basis for any healthy relationship, and getting trust must start with giving it.
- HIGHLIGHT SIMILARITIES: It is easy to focus on cultural differences, but leaders must understand their team and pay attention to universal similarities, too.
- BE ADAPTABLE: Leaders must be able to adapt quickly to their team’s cultures and determine what they most value.
Audiences will learn:
- The ways in which corporate culture is learned and passed down to the next group of employees.
- How to prioritize healthy employer/employee connection and how healthy, connected cultures produce connected, engaged employees.
- How inspired, courageous leadership involves assuming the responsibility of modeling and teaching healthy culture to create their organization’s next generation.
Key attendee takeaways:
- Disconnected employees diminish productivity and innovation, and this disconnection can be a significant factor in their leaving an organization – or worse, staying.
- Incorporating long-term strategies for the next generation of employees to adopt healthy culture is critical for sustained organizational growth.
- Creating a shared confidence in the future and creating a culture of belonging, connection, and inclusion are key to employee engagement.
