This is my mumming out post. What’s a mumming out? It’s my coming out ... as a mum. Yes - you read that right. Diversity Dana is also Dana The Mama. I’m a mum. Of twins, who yesterday turned 6 months old. I know what you’re thinking. I post here all the time and [...]
In the last 12 months, I’ve had some amazing opportunities. I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to be a keynote speaker, featured on a podcast and on a panel, and invited to share my experience to inspire young women starting their careers. With each of those opportunities came a request - “Can you [...]
I love social media and at the moment (it changes regularly) my favourite medium is Instagram. I love being able to peek into other facilitators’ classrooms and share top tips and I find it easy to connect there. So there I was one day, scrolling through, when I saw an announcement from another facilitator [...]
Because I typically spend lots of time in the classroom, phone calls have never really been my thing. Actually that’s not strictly true, I love talking all things learning with clients via any medium. And I take every opportunity to take to my family. But all other calls are a nuisance. There I said [...]
A few weeks ago I met up with a friend who has left the corporate world and is shortly about to launch her business working as a freelance trainer, facilitator and coach! As she builds her client roster she’ll be looking for Associate work. She asked me for concrete advice in the “things I [...]
It's the last week of January! We've almost made it through the first month of 2019. Where does the time go? Every week of the month so far I've shared a story of someone who motivated me in 2018. Inspiring, but also with lessons we could apply to our own lives and the goals [...]
As far back as I can remember, my sister Ciara has been fearless (well, fearless minus frogs and lizards). As a child she was a tree climbing, downhill racing, competitive swinging, force of nature. By comparison, I was a book reading, doll playing, tea party having, little lady. As a result, she has always [...]
At the start of 2019, I set myself the goal of sharing the story of a person who inspired me in 2018, each week in January. The aim is to give everyone who reads this blog some motivation, inspiration and of course tips as we all start working toward our own New Year goals. [...]
Each week in January I’ll be sharing the story of a person who inspired me to help start the year off right, to give some added motivation and tips as we all start building and working toward our 2019 goals. I started last week with an amazing story of overcoming the odds, which you [...]
One of the things I do to give back, is work as a coach helping graduate students uncover what they want to do post-graduation and, once they've figured that out, working with them towards securing a role in a company that would help them fulfil their ambitions. My very first graduate coaching client came [...]
