Denise Hamilton is a nationally recognized leader in ally training and founder and CEO of WatchHerWork.com, a digital learning platform for professional women. Denise is a highly requested speaker and trainer as well as media personality whose platform has reached and served thousands of women all over the world. At WatchHerWork, Denise has archived the professional experiences of hundreds of women to build a library of over 6,000 videos with one goal in mind: closing the gap for today’s professional women by giving them the advice they need when they need it. 

As founder of WatchHerWork, Denise has developed workshops and programs that have empowered the lives of women, and altered the trajectory of careers and businesses all over the country. To do this, she built upon her over 25 years experience as a corporate executive with Fortune 500 companies like AOL and CBRE, as well as her experience as an entrepreneur and as a mentor to thousands of women over the course of her career.

Denise's book, Indivisible: How to Forge Our Differences Into a Stronger Future, helps individuals work towards creating more inclusive, harmonious, and close-knit collectives that repair the fraying stitches that bind society together as well as help you transform how you view work (and the world).

Denise has been featured on NPR, Forbes, FOX, Huffington Post, CBS, NBC and most recently as the host of “Project Comeback” on Lifetime. She has been featured in Huffington Post, Ebony Magazine, Xconomy, Black Enterprise, and the Houston Business Journal. She was named one of the 41 Most Fascinating People in Houston by the Houston Chronicle, Woman Who Means Business by the Houston Business Journal and one of Houston’s Most Influential Women by Houston Woman Magazine.

Denise believes that you shouldn’t have to have powerful friends to have powerful information. She is committed to making sure that the information needed for women to build a business, climb the corporate ladder, and get on boards is available to every woman and the men that support them.

Topics:

  • In any organization, there are challenges and opportunities surrounding inclusion. The best just has to be brought out of you. In this talk, participants will be challenged to excavate the underlying beliefs that shape their strongly-held opinions around race and intersectionality. Together, Denise will help participants identify shared values and develop a framework for incorporating different perspectives. The goal of this deep-dive conversation is to harness differences within teams to generate creative and innovative solutions to move others to optimal performance. By aligning your teams, especially leadership, Denise helps you create a path to competitive excellence, improved morale and increase retention.

  • Women are making greater strides than ever before and the possibilities for future success are literally limitless...if we can get out of our own way. In this powerful workshop-style presentation, Denise shares practical ways to improve personal power, influence and effectiveness, not through controlling others, but by being our highest and best selves. Listeners are challenged to release beliefs and habits that do not serve them and to courageously create the life they want on their own terms. Denise shares 10 ways to change your life and career by changing the only thing that's actually in your control - YOU!

  • Why is Diversity hard? We talk a great deal about the advantages of diversity, but rarely are we honest enough to admit that truly acknowledging and creating diversity is tough! Why do we struggle to accept and honor each other? We are tribal creatures, but homogeneity has a price. In this thoughtful, honest presentation, Denise brings audiences back to basics and helps them assess what the real challenges to Diversity and Inclusion are and how we can overcome those challenges to unlock the power of our teams.

  • The 2020s have brought significant challenges, but we are more than capable of managing those challenges. In this inspiring session, Denise Hamilton helps individuals learn the causes of our conflict and the tools necessary to successfully navigate differences in the workplace.

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