Dima Ghawi
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Dima is an award-winning author and a three-time TEDx Speaker. Through keynote speeches, workshops, training programs, and executive coaching, she has honed a keen expertise in developing leaders to meet the demands of the global workforce.
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The Talent Pipeline: Cultivating Tomorrow's Leaders
When it comes to promoting individuals from underrepresented groups into leadership roles, there’s one sentence I’ve heard many times from companies across industries: “We want to promote diverse people, but we can’t find anyone!”
By Dima Ghawiabout a year ago in Journal
Lessons From Leaders Who Inspire
In my work as a leadership consultant, I am often inspired by the incredible leaders I get to work with. These are the leaders who reflect the core values of their organization, who know how to inspire future generations, who embrace the messy, beautiful imperfection of making mistakes and learning from them—leaders we might all aspire to learn from!
By Dima Ghawiabout a year ago in Journal
Thumbs Up or Oops? How Body Language Connects-And Confuses-Cultures
When former president George W. Bush was inaugurated in 2005, he lifted his fist with his pinky and index finger extended—a symbol that, in the United States, represents the Texas Longhorn football team. A seemingly innocuous gesture in the U.S., for many other countries in the Mediterranean and Latin America—from Italy and Spain to Brazil and Argentina—this gesture is used to mean that someone’s spouse is cheating on them!
By Dima Ghawiabout a year ago in Journal
The Misfit Advantage: Embracing your Unique Identity
Raise your hand if you’re reading this blog and you’ve felt like a misfit at any point in your life. Maybe you were the last picked for sports in high school P.E. Maybe you were one of few women in your 100-person college computer science class. Maybe you were the only person who really liked that super sour candy as a kind. So, have you ever felt like a misfit?
By Dima Ghawiabout a year ago in Motivation
GROWing Better Body Language
The scoff. The eye roll. The exasperated sigh. The furrowed brows. The shrug. We’ve all seen examples of disrespectful, dismissive, and outright rude body language in the workplace, and I doubt it’s an exaggeration to say that we all wish this body language was far less frequent among some of our employers and employees!
By Dima Ghawi2 years ago in Journal
Advancing Diversity Even With Texas's DEI Ban
In early 2024, Texas’s DEI ban went into effect, and many individuals, organizations, and institutions didn’t know how to react. Personally, I found this news to be anxiety-inducing—laws are intimidating, and seeking to understand their nuances is even more so! But as citizens, it is crucial that we refuse to bow down to fear-mongering, instead remaining informed about the legislation passed in our country. So let’s take the first step together!
By Dima Ghawi2 years ago in The Swamp
Let's Create a Culture of Courage
While I have spoken extensively about the importance of companies supporting DEI in the present, workforces will continue to evolve as the future arrives. In turn, we must incorporate a focus on making our work cultures more courageous. If we don’t have this emphasis, we’ll lose out on the innovation of the younger generation, and that’s a situation no organization wants to be in!
By Dima Ghawi2 years ago in Journal
Four Tips for Being Inclusive Towards Individuals With Disabilities
Disability inclusion is becoming ever more common in today’s workplaces, a reality to the benefit of both people with disabilities and the rest of society! One key way all of us can advance our inclusion journey is thus educating ourselves on microaggressions faced by people with disabilities. In this blog, I will be discussing some of the most common behavioral microaggressions that people with disabilities too often have to deal with on a daily basis.
By Dima Ghawi2 years ago in Pride
Four Tips for Fostering a Culture of Courage at Work
Workplaces are driven by innovation. Innovation necessitates change. Yet so many of us find ourselves tied up in fear at the prospect of taking the risks required to propel change! After all, people are wired for survival. The consequence of this aversion to risk is that in organizations across industries, the dominant culture is the implicit insistence to play it safe, where we are “more afraid of potential losses than excited about potential gains.” So how can organizations challenge this mindset? How can we ensure our employees “feel psychologically safe at work” and are empowered to make innovative suggestions and pursue bold risks?
By Dima Ghawi2 years ago in Journal
