Oumar Dieng

Oumar Dieng is a resilience and motivation expert who works with clients to "Awaken resilience" and spark a chain reaction of motivation, productivity and high performance in teams and individuals.

Change is a constant theme in today's organizations. As if that was not enough, external challenges pile on to internal stressors for employees and leaders alike. Everyday is a small battle to overcome these challenges. Employees feel it. Leaders feel it. It's incessant!

Yet, now more than ever, we need to awaken resilience and motivation within ourselves and within our teams to overcome these challenges.

As a former refugee camp survivor turned successful professional and business owner, I know what it takes to stay motivated and overcome adversity.

• How do you stay nimble and fluid in the face of change?
• How do you awaken resilience within yourself and your team?
• How can you leverage your past to strengthen your future?
• Is it possible to overcome challenges and still stay motivated?

These are all good questions. As a leader, you may aspire to not only find answers to these questions but make it a repeatable and scalable process that becomes part of your operational strategy. The beauty of facing challenges is that they lead to opportunities and prepare us to tackle even tougher challenges on the horizon.

But where do you start? How do you become a more resilient leader, with resilient employees moving with the same motivation and determination towards the same goal?

This is where Oumar Dieng comes in! As a motivational speaker, life purpose coach, author and entrepreneur, Oumar shares real-life, though-provoking examples that will inspire and equip attendees to confront their limiting beliefs and take action and overcome obstacles.
Oumar is different from many other speakers because he literally lived his teachings. His very survival depended on the successful implementation of the "core principles of resilience" when he found himself in a Red Cross refugee camp as a teenager after a deadly mob attacked his home and caused him to be separated from his family.
Whether in person or virtually, Oumar is highly skilled at delivering memorable and relatable presentations that will not only inspire and motivate, but also awaken resilience and shift mindsets towards action. It's not about learning to be resilient; it's about awakening a set of powerful and innate skills that we don't realize we have, simply by shifting the way we think.
What would it feel like to have the power to overcome any challenge and stay motivated while doing it? Work with Oumar and discover the power of "inspirational resilience."

Oumar's Story:
As a teenager, Oumar lived in a refugee camp after a deadly mob attacked his home and caused him to be separated from his family. He fled to another country where he reunited with his family and later went on to have a successful corporate career in the U.S., working for companies like U.S. Bank, Cargill, and the State of Minnesota. After overcoming life changing hardships and loss, he learned to harness the power of resilience and positive thinking to shed his limiting beliefs and transform his life.
Oumar holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems and degrees in communication, Business Computer Systems and Management and Communication. He worked in Human Resources, Sales, Information Technology, Corrections, Food and Hospitality Management, eCommerce and Marketing.