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THE EMPACTFUL SPEAKER
Are you looking for a speaker who blends storytelling, science, and lived experience to inspire and empower? Look no further. I am a seasoned speaker that brings energy, insight, and motivation to your next event. My powerful storytelling will captivate your audience from start to finish. With real-life examples and relatable anecdotes, I weave a narrative that resonates deeply, sparking reflection and inspiration.
Customizable Talks
Empactful Strategy
When Purpose Drives Performance​
Many organizations say the right things about equity, innovation, and impact. Fewer know how to turn those priorities into strategies that actually hold up once budgets, timelines, and accountability enter the picture. This talk focuses on what happens after the commitment is made and how leaders translate intention into results.
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Audiences leave with:
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A clearer understanding of how equity show up in business outcomes, not just values statements
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Practical ways to connect strategy to execution without overengineering
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Better questions to ask when evaluating initiatives, partnerships, and investments
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Language and frameworks that resonate with executives, boards, and cross-functional teams
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Empactful Relationships
The Human Advantage in a Transactional World​
Technology scales fast while trust compounds. Denise talks about how to reframe relationships with vendors, partners, teams, and stakeholders as strategic assets rather than line items. Drawing from real operating environments, Denise shows why transformational relationships outperform transactional ones, especially when speed, accountability, and outcomes matter.
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Audiences leave with:
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A new lens on partnerships as sources of leverage
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Ways to design alignment and shared accountability across power dynamics
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Insight into why empathy is an operational advantage, not a soft skill
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Strategies for improving collaboration without adding friction
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Empactful Storytelling
Turning Complexity Into Clarity​
Most teams have more data than they know what to do with. Dashboards get built, reports get shared, and decisions still stall because the data isn’t answering the questions people in the room actually care about. This work focuses on closing that gap.
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Denise discusses how data gets interpreted, framed, and communicated in real decision-making environments (e.g., boardrooms, investor meetings, leadership reviews, etc.) The focus isn’t on visualization or tools. It’s on judgment: deciding what matters, what doesn’t, and how to explain risk, tradeoffs, and uncertainty in a way that leads to action.
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Audiences leave with:
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A clearer approach to deciding which data belongs in the room
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Language for communicating uncertainty without losing credibility
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Better instincts for when data is being used to inform versus delay decisions
Example: When the Real Worlds Walks In (Mayo Clinic)
Empactful Caregiving
The Invisible Labor While Providing Care​
While caring for a loved one with cancer, she saw firsthand how much of care happens outside clinical settings: in scheduling, decision-making, emotional labor, and the quiet logistics that rarely show up in treatment plans or trial protocols.
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That perspective now informs her professional work designing and advising clinical trials, programs, and organizations. Her talks examine the disconnect between how systems are built and how patients and caregivers actually live. She focuses on what gets overlooked when caregivers are treated as invisible and how to prevent burnout while providing care.
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Audiences leave with:
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A deeper understanding of the invisible labor caregivers perform
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Insight into how caregiving responsibilities affect participation, performance, and retention​
Example: My Word, My Health
