Danielle’s mission is to help women succeed with sanity. As a result she is willing to speak in many different spaces, so long as they are geared toward and uplift women. The type of engagements she’s willing to participate in are virtual and in person national and global summits; webinars; trainings; and small group retreats, conferences, and meetings.

How to Be the Leader You Secretly Want to Be.

Often times women identify that they want to be leaders. However, all to commonly women don’t think about how they want to show up as a leader. Or conversely, they show up in a way they believe they are supposed to, rather than being the leader they deeply desire to be. In this talk, I discuss why it’s crucial for women’s long term success to contemplate the type of leader they want to be; the cultural norms and fears that are holding women back; as well as how to identify and show up as the leader that’s true to who they are.

How to Regain Your Edge after a Leadership Fall.

There are few things more mentally jolting than having a very public leadership fail or fall (whether it’s truly public or just within your organization). Women have a tendency to not only personalize the experience, but also question their talent and their future going forward. In this discussion, I touch on the cultural reasons for women’s personalization of what is often a career inevitability. I’ll talk through the emotions and thought processes of women in the aftermath of public failure, using my own story as an example. Finally, I’ll provide the audience the two main reasons why failure is important for long-term career success, as well as how to get your mojo and moxie back to continue on, unabated.

Work/Life Balance begins and ends with Values.

Most if not all women struggle with work life balance, or don’t believe it exists at all. In this discussion, which is an extension of my Balance Breakthrough course, women will learn that work/life balance does exist and how to obtain it. I’ll addresses the reasons why so many women make work/life balance promises to themselves they can’t seem to keep. I’ll share the crucial action women must take to create boundaries that finally change behavior in order for women to live out the balance they so deperately need and crave.

The Six Skills and Traits That Propels Careers to Leadership.

Women are working way too hard. Hard work isn’t what propels careers. Rather it usually sets the stage for women to be given more work, and stops them from pursuing the real strategies that will advance them to leadership. In this discussion I dispel the myth of hard work. I give women the six strategies to leadership (based on my 1:1 coaching offerings), and how and why they work.

Rejection and Relationships are the Keys to the Career of Your Dreams (and the Necessity for Resilience).

Many women are caught in a loop of frustration and confusion on how to live out the careers they’ve always desired. In this conversation I discuss how rejection and relationships are the necessities to get out of the hamster wheel of professional disappointment. I’ll talk about the learned cultural behaviors that fuel women’s avoidance of rejection. I’ll also discuss why and how women should be maximizing their relationship building strengths. Finally, this talk culminates into the reasons why the ability to handle rejection and real relationships are paramount for individual resilience.

Danielle has personal experience from which she speaks. She was an executive leader across two sectors; first as a deputy to a City Manager and then as a CEO of her state’s largest pro-bono law firm. In the latter position she led seven deputies and two directors. Oversaw five offices across the state, 200+ employees and $18+ million dollars in annual revenues which she increased in the form of 41% salary increases across two years for the whole organization.  As a city deputy she lead six directors with $6M in collective spending and oversaw a direct annual division budget of $3M. Prior to these accomplishments, she had a sixteen year career as a corporate attorney and family law litigator; law firm owner; adjunct law professor; the first director of diversity and inclusion for her state’s bar association; and director of her city’s complaint investigation division (within the Department of Civil Rights) where she lead a team of four attorneys and a division budget of $700,000.

Danielle is a personable, dynamic, authentic, no hold barred storyteller and teacher. Her message is clear and powerful. Your audience will find her engaging, and will leave with a clear course of action take into incorporate into their real lives, plus she’ll leave them wanting more.

Danielle has extensive speaking experience in front of highly educated, diverse, engaged and very opinionated audiences beginning as far back as 2005 when she opened her law practice, to the present.