Dyana Valentine
Oracle::Outlaw
Dyana Valentine is not for the faint of heart.
She's spent 13 years teaching leaders to listen to themselves and complete seemingly impossible projects - we're talking major brand overhauls, six-figure product launches, full-fledged manuscripts - all the radical things you wish you could carve space to do, in your life and career.
She serves up straight-from-the-hip advice in online magazines and columns all over the ‘net. In a past life, she was an idiot-savant microsurgery tech, worked for the Olympics committee, and was personally approached by the FBI with a recruitment invitation - for classified reasons - on two separate occasions.
She's a firehose of ingenuity, a profoundly inspiring coach, and pretty easy on the eyes. You're gonna love her brilliant insights on idea generation, intelligent project testing, and humane communication - and I promise, you'll want to keep her in your arsenal of support, like a razor-sharp secret weapon.
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I speak.
I inspire.
I say what you wish you'd thought to think.
I'm ready to take you and your business off pause and into live action.
I am an instigator. Seriously, I'm not for the weak of heart. I look closely and work intensely with clients who are truly ready to make something happen. In 12 years of working with hundreds of clients, I have come up with tools and conceptual approaches that help high-performing creatives move and shake. My work is based on the principles of Community Psychology, including, but not limited to:
We are all motivated (it's not up to me to motivate you, but to help you create ways to express your motivations);
My clients are the experts (and you know it's true; you are the only one who knows how big your work can be); and
We have many resources at hand (or within arm's reach) to solve our own problems (even if you are feeling frustrated and beside yourself right now, I believe you are sitting on a treasure chest of your own greatness).
I have been a microsurgery tech, an event planner, survived working in corporate America and am proud to have earned a Master's degree from Antioch University and an undergrad degree from Brown.
My gifts are turning my firehose-in-a-garden-hose-world brain ON (for you), listening with an ear for your highest possible outcome and telling the truth, even when it stings a little.
I'm happiest when I help an already brilliant human make and maintain the connections (to ideas, resources and other humans) they need to grow themselves and their businesses.
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So, you've got a demanding crowd, full of action-minded movers ‘n shakers? And if you throw up one more PowerPoint presentation about nicey-nice, milky-white goal-setting strategies, someone's gonna start a riot?
I'd love to get my mitts on your mic stand, and crank the volume past eleven.
I deliver (and emcee) podium-free, fully-interactive presentations on:
Collaborating and communicating like (smart foxy) grown-ups
Testing and tweaking ideas to get to the marketable jewels (due diligence is hot)
Breathing new life into stalled projects, dusty visions, and broken systems (instigation is everything)
Banishing deer-in-the-headlights moments, by pitching like a pro (you them = a better world)
Zeroing in on your personal gem time - and leveraging those moments of unvarnished wisdom into products, programs (and pulsating momentum)
You can be damn certain that I will ALWAYS:
Get the elephant in the room to come outta the closet, and dance the mambo with your CEO
Pose oh-no-she-didn't questions (the kind that trigger oh-now-I-get-it epiphanies)
Challenge everyone the room to up their personal antes - at work. At play. And with everything they say
Rest assured that I will NEVER:
Tolerate mediocrity (from myself, or anyone else in the room)
Let lies float on by (even innocuous ones)
Read from scribbly index cards (Scout's honor)
When I step onto the stage, I bring 12 years of proven business-boosting prowess, insights sourced from 1-on-1 coaching with 700 entrepreneurs, and an academic background in Community Psychology...plus big hair, big shoes, and big love, for your crew.
Oracle::Outlaw
Dyana Valentine is not for the faint of heart.
She's spent 13 years teaching leaders to listen to themselves and complete seemingly impossible projects - we're talking major brand overhauls, six-figure product launches, full-fledged manuscripts - all the radical things you wish you could carve space to do, in your life and career.
She serves up straight-from-the-hip advice in online magazines and columns all over the ‘net. In a past life, she was an idiot-savant microsurgery tech, worked for the Olympics committee, and was personally approached by the FBI with a recruitment invitation - for classified reasons - on two separate occasions.
She's a firehose of ingenuity, a profoundly inspiring coach, and pretty easy on the eyes. You're gonna love her brilliant insights on idea generation, intelligent project testing, and humane communication - and I promise, you'll want to keep her in your arsenal of support, like a razor-sharp secret weapon.
____________________________________________________________
I speak.
I inspire.
I say what you wish you'd thought to think.
I'm ready to take you and your business off pause and into live action.
I am an instigator. Seriously, I'm not for the weak of heart. I look closely and work intensely with clients who are truly ready to make something happen. In 12 years of working with hundreds of clients, I have come up with tools and conceptual approaches that help high-performing creatives move and shake. My work is based on the principles of Community Psychology, including, but not limited to:
We are all motivated (it's not up to me to motivate you, but to help you create ways to express your motivations);
My clients are the experts (and you know it's true; you are the only one who knows how big your work can be); and
We have many resources at hand (or within arm's reach) to solve our own problems (even if you are feeling frustrated and beside yourself right now, I believe you are sitting on a treasure chest of your own greatness).
I have been a microsurgery tech, an event planner, survived working in corporate America and am proud to have earned a Master's degree from Antioch University and an undergrad degree from Brown.
My gifts are turning my firehose-in-a-garden-hose-world brain ON (for you), listening with an ear for your highest possible outcome and telling the truth, even when it stings a little.
I'm happiest when I help an already brilliant human make and maintain the connections (to ideas, resources and other humans) they need to grow themselves and their businesses.
____________________________________________________________
So, you've got a demanding crowd, full of action-minded movers ‘n shakers? And if you throw up one more PowerPoint presentation about nicey-nice, milky-white goal-setting strategies, someone's gonna start a riot?
I'd love to get my mitts on your mic stand, and crank the volume past eleven.
I deliver (and emcee) podium-free, fully-interactive presentations on:
Collaborating and communicating like (smart foxy) grown-ups
Testing and tweaking ideas to get to the marketable jewels (due diligence is hot)
Breathing new life into stalled projects, dusty visions, and broken systems (instigation is everything)
Banishing deer-in-the-headlights moments, by pitching like a pro (you them = a better world)
Zeroing in on your personal gem time - and leveraging those moments of unvarnished wisdom into products, programs (and pulsating momentum)
You can be damn certain that I will ALWAYS:
Get the elephant in the room to come outta the closet, and dance the mambo with your CEO
Pose oh-no-she-didn't questions (the kind that trigger oh-now-I-get-it epiphanies)
Challenge everyone the room to up their personal antes - at work. At play. And with everything they say
Rest assured that I will NEVER:
Tolerate mediocrity (from myself, or anyone else in the room)
Let lies float on by (even innocuous ones)
Read from scribbly index cards (Scout's honor)
When I step onto the stage, I bring 12 years of proven business-boosting prowess, insights sourced from 1-on-1 coaching with 700 entrepreneurs, and an academic background in Community Psychology...plus big hair, big shoes, and big love, for your crew.
