Dana Theus, Speaker Profile

An engaging speaker, meeting facilitator and workshop leader, Dana Theus motivates and outfits audiences to lead change and explore the highest potential in themselves and their organizations.

In her coaching practice serving on the front lines of business, Dana equips emerging leaders with tools and strategies that shortcut their journey to personal and career success. She helps  established leaders activate the power of their career brand to engage their organizations and access new levels of confidence and impact. And she coaches women aspiring to greater leadership responsibility, helping them retell the stories they must heal to emerge into their full potential and find their authentically confident voice.  With her support leaders become well known for the things they like best about themselves.

Dana also helps organizations unlock the power of their people by designing culture-shift coaching and training programs for team leaders, which leverage scaleable online InPower Coaching methodologies and extensive video/workbook libraries.

Dana has spent her career helping individuals and organizations succeed as they venture into new territory, working inside and alongside fortune 50 companies, entrepreneurial technology startups, government agencies and non-profits. Her functional experience spans coaching, management consulting, leadership development, change management, executive team facilitation, strategic planning, marketing, branding, communications, product development, product management and international government affairs. View Dana’s full bio.

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I was really impressed with how easily you made “soft” skills interesting and appealing for both women and men – in the same session! The interaction and engagement was great. – Senior Leader, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Some Facts about Dana

• Professional Development provider for Women In Storebrand Excellence – Chicago, IL
• Webinar instructor for Lorman Education and Business Management Daily
• Writer for The Mission on Medium.com
• Former Washington DC Host, Executive Leader’s Radio (#1 business talk radio station in the mid-atlantic)
• Forbes 100 Women’s Leadership Blog 2013 – InPowerWomen.com
• Leadership blogger on Medium/The Mission, Huffington Post, Smartbrief on Leadership and Lead Change.
• Top 100 Most Socially Shared Leadership Blogs (3 blogs)
• Top 25 Blogs: HR Examiner
• Top 75 Human Business Champion
• Former Instructor George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Champion

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Check Out Dana on Social Media

LinkedIn: Dana Theus
Twitter: @Danatheus
Facebook:  @DanaTheusAuthor

Speaking Topics & Samples

Want to bring motivational, practical and powerful insights to your organization? Dana speaks powerfully on the following topics in both motivational talk and workshop formats. Dana can speak to your whole group, conduct a half day workshop, advise your planning committee, support leaders on a one-to-one basis – and all of the above! All sessions are appropriate for women-only and mixed gender audiences. Contact Dana to schedule your event.

• Building an Authentic, Feminine Leadership Presence
• Communicating with Confidence for Women
• Networking Skills for High-Achieving Women
• Building Influence Through Thought Leadership
• Mastering the Art of Authentic Persuasion
• Personal Branding For High-Potential Leaders
• Personal Branding For Business Success (for business owners)

We invited Dana to speak at our 2Q 2013 Financial Women Leadership Network event. We asked her to share her insights on how to master authentic self-promotion. Dana tailored “A Professional Woman’s Guide to Communicating with Confidence” presentation to our group’s needs and truly exceeded our expectations. She is very friendly, personable and was a pleasure to work with every step of the way. Dana was very flexible and made sure that her materials met outlined objectives and were interesting, relevant, thought provoking and empowering. She made her presentation very interactive and was able to engage a diverse group of women from those just starting their careers to those in various leadership roles. I highly recommend Dana for your coaching or professional development event! ~ Aksana Rajput, Sr. Tax Accountant, Exxon-Mobile (Top qualities identified on LinkedIn for this recommendation: Great Results , Good Value, High Integrity)

“I recently attended Dana Theus’ business roundtable discussion of  ‘Become a Thought Leader on Social Media’ at the 2013 The Power Conference–Women Doing Business. As a newly formed business, I was very engaged in activities I deemed necessary to my startup plan. Missing was the core idea that my business needed to move to the next level. Since attending, I have not only used her technique, but it has shaped every decision moving forward.” ~ Jackie Mae, Author

Being a woman doesn’t  make you a part of the weaker sex; we are a different sex and this seminar showed me that that’s ok and should be valued. ~Workshop participant

Leading Change

• Mastering Strategic Change & Transformation* – Learn the 5 agreements of Change and Transformation
• Mastering Group Dynamics for Team Leaders* – Learn to establish power across matrixed and cross-functional groups
• Establishing High Performance Team Agreements* – Diagnose and eliminate team performance inhibitors

Dana does a great job simplifying difficult concepts. Her insight is phenomenal. She is very patient and encouraging. – Leadership Development Seminar Participant, George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership

The PRIMES Leadership Lab we did with Dana is really about taking projects and diverse teams, breaking down those projects into areas to discover synergies, differences, and misconceptions. It helps us come up with an integrated approach to making sure we’re working on the same version of the truth.” Mike Howard, Chief Security Officer, Microsoft. See the full Microsoft video about this training.

This seminar helps you as women understand how to make the choices that work well for you, in life and work. Excellent tools to understand how to balance your life and the expectations associated with it. Arlene Handen, Staffing Manager

Coming into the seminar I had a strong belief that certain things were set in stone. Walking away, I now now that I have a choice… always. Dana Rivera

Dana does a great job simplifying difficult concepts. Her insight is phenomenal. She is very patient and encouraging. ~ Workshop participant

Listening to Dana made me look at life from a different window. There is more to life. Stay positive! ~ Workshop participant

Selected Speaking Engagements

• Microsoft – Seattle, WAExxon-Mobil Women’s Leadership Forum – Huston, TX
• Exxon-Mobil Women’s Leadership Forum – Huston, TX
• Women in Technology — Northern Virginia
• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center – Huntsville, AL
• National Association of Women MBAs – Washington, DC
• The Power Conference for Women – Bethesda, MD
• The Washington Network Group Women’s Leadership Forum – Washington, DC
• TEDxMassAve 2012 (Co-hosted with TEDx Women) – Washington, DC
• The Washington Network Group – Washington, DC
• Legacy Women’s Conference Northern Illinois University – Chicago, IL
• Women in Electronics/VentureSource – Online

Speaker’s Introduction (Sample Bios)

[To Corporate Audience]

Dana Theus is an executive coach and President & CEO of InPower Coaching. Leveraging leadership lessons she learned while serving on the front lines of business, Dana helps emerging and established leaders activate their highest potential to succeed, to shine and to motivate their teams to greater productivity and purpose. She has worked for Fortune 50 companies, entrepreneurial tech startups, government and military agencies and non-profits and she has taught graduate-level courses for several Universities in the Washington DC area. She writes on multiple leadership sites to bring an INPowered voice to leadership development.

[To Individuals]

Dana Theus is an executive and career coach specializing in helping you activate your highest potential to succeed and to shine. With her support emerging and established leaders take powerful, high-road shortcuts to developing their authentic leadership style and discovering new levels of confidence and impact. Leveraging a 25+ year career on the front lines of business, Dana has worked for Fortune 50 companies, entrepreneurial tech startups, government and military agencies and non-profits and she has taught graduate-level courses for several Universities in the Washington DC area. She writes on multiple leadership sites to bring an INPowered voice to leadership development.

[To Women’s Audiences]

Dana Theus is an executive and career coach specializing in helping you unlock your highest potential to succeed and to shine. With her support, women aspiring to greater levels of leadership and entrepreneurship learn to retell the stories they must heal so that they can emerge into their full potential and find their authentically confident voice. Leveraging a 25+ year career on the front lines of business, Dana has worked for Fortune 50 companies, entrepreneurial tech startups, government and military agencies and non-profits and she has taught graduate-level courses for several Universities in the Washington DC area. She writes on multiple leadership sites to bring an INPowered voice to leadership development.

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