Dima Ghawi

Unstoppable Courage: Shattering Limitations & Daring to Thrive

Inspired by her TEDx talk, Dima Ghawi’s story of personal transformation encourages audiences to confront and conquer internal limitations. As she recounts her own struggles and triumphs, her vulnerability and insight resonate with audiences, sparking a guiding light for attendees’ own journeys of self-discovery and leadership growth. 

Dima dares individuals to examine at their own internal limitations, such as the pursuit of perfection and the fear of failure or judgment. She then equips audience members with the tools and courage it takes to shatter those limitations and emerge as empowered individuals.   

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 overall organizational culture.
• How internal limitations inhibit individuals from performing at their best and 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 increases, improving the bottom-line results.

Inspiring Bold Leadership & Creating Engaged Employees

Employees in healthy cultures thrive. These cultures 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 culture health for future generations to sustain.

Dima Ghawi worked with Fortune 20 corporations and diverse teams around the world for two decades. Through her assignments in 19 countries with IBM in Leadership Training and Development, she gained critical insights into leading across global teams. She recognized that bold leadership, employee engagement, and DEI were not only inextricably linked, but they were also crucial across cultures.

Her unique experience has given her deep insight into how to be an effective leader in the global age: 

• START WITH TRUST TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS: Trust is the basis for nearly all healthy relationships, and getting trust starts with giving it. 
• HIGHLIGHT SIMILARITIES: It’s easy to focus on cultural differences, but leaders must understand their team and pay attention to universal similarities. 
• BE ADAPTABLE: Leaders must be able to adapt quickly to their team’s multiculturality and determine what they value. 

Audiences will learn:

• To recognize how corporate culture is learned and passed down to the next group of employees. 
• How to prioritize healthy employer/employee connection, and that healthy, connected cultures produce connected, engaged employees. 
• That inspired, courageous leadership involves assuming the responsibility of modeling and teaching healthy work 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 yet, staying.
• Incorporating long-term strategies for the next generation of employees to adopt healthy culture is critical for sustained growth.
• Creating a shared confidence in the future and a culture of belonging, connection, and inclusion are key to employee engagement.

Harnessing the Power of an Inclusive Work Culture

Creating a culture of inclusion is no longer a “nice to have.” Inclusion is essential for recruiting, engaging, and retaining top talent, and it is a competitive advantage of any company. In this keynote, Dima Ghawi shares decades’ worth of findings gathered across 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 to address common workplace resistance to DEI. She teaches leaders 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 workplace. 

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, the influence of courageous office culture, and the power of affinity groups.
• What diverse employees are looking for, including actionable tips to create a courageous and integrative workplace culture. 
• How to create a more productive, engaging, and inclusive workplace for all.