About

Dina’s natural enthusiasm and ability to quickly build relationships creates a shared learning journey of curiosity, discovery, challenge, and encouragement. Whether through workshops, keynote speaking, or coaching, Dina’s ultimate aim is to broaden minds and build skills, capability, and confidence - empowering individuals to implement successful plans of action for sustainability and to have a positive impact on organisational goals. She has a passion for positive, generative approaches to leadership development, resulting in transformational shifts in performance and wellbeing for individuals, teams, and organisations. Dina prides herself on her client-centric approach, building and sustaining partnerships by working closely with clients to define and deliver on organisational priorities and strategies. Dina’s purpose is to open doors; she invites you to courageously open your own doors and discover what’s on the other side.

Experience

With more than 25 years of international experience in learning and organisational development, Dina is a highly skilled facilitator, coach, and speaker. Having completed a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Melbourne, her keen interest in building courageous leaders was piqued. This led her to become accredited by Dr. Brené Brown in Dare to Lead™, an empirically-based courage-building program. With a background in science, it is important to Dina that her work is built on a solid, evidence-based foundation balanced with the healthy questioning and curiosity of science. Dina has presented on courageous leadership at the past 3 World Congresses of Positive Psychology. She is thrilled to be contributing to the courage capability of today’s organisations. Dina works with leaders and teams, and continues to partner with industries such as pharmaceuticals, education, entertainment, healthcare, sporting bodies, manufacturing, and not-for-profit.

Areas of Expertise

• Leadership development
• Building workplace wellbeing
• Teams development
• Coaching

Key Skills

• Supporting people to open doors, be curious and explore with an open mind and an open heart
• Connecting people to others and to possibilities
• Encouraging people to discover the best of self and others through facilitation, coaching, and keynote speaking

Qualifications and Memberships

• Master of Applied Positive Psychology (University of Melbourne)
• Post Graduate Diploma, Learning & Organisational Development (Deakin University)
• Applied Science, Haematology (RMIT)
• Certified Dare To Lead™ Facilitator (Dr. Brené Brown, USA)
• Genos Emotional Intelligence Accredited (Dr. Ben Palmer, Australia)
• Appreciative Inquiry (Dr. David Cooperrider, Belgium)
• PERMAH Wellbeing and VIA Strengths
• Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) & Organisational Leadership Questionnaire Accredited (ODQ)
• The 5 Behaviours of a Cohesive Team Accredited
• DiSC Accredited
• MBTI Accredited