Denise is a speaker, consultant, facilitator and trainer specializing in improving individual and organizational performance. She has over 20 years of business experience and 15 years consulting internationally to Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries and to organizations in the non-profit sector.
Denise has brought strong consulting, facilitation and project management skills to the design, delivery and execution of the strategic planning process, sales strategy, change/communication efforts, leadership development and team building. Using a variety of processes and approaches, she aligns widely diverse groups of stakeholders around issues of strategic intent, action, and profitability. As such, she works with all levels of stakeholder – from executives, to middle managers, to staff and line employees, to customers, suppliers, and community members.
She has a passion for facilitating strength-based dialogues and conversations that build collaborative relationships in groups and organizations, which help them to achieve their agreed upon goals, objectives and/or results.
Denise was also co-founder of the Appreciative Inquiry Special Interest Group, through the Organizational Development Network of Greater New York, that focused on bringing strength-based philosophies to business and not-for-profits to manage change, strategic planning, culture development and building accountability.
A dynamic speaker, trainer and facilitator, Denise has delivered hundreds of seminars and consulted with companies on 5 continents. She has also facilitated and volunteered for the Clinton Global Initiative since it’s inception in 2005.
Denise is on the faculty of American Management Association. She is also certified in MBTI.
She received her M.B.A. from the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York and her B.B.A. in Marketing from Hofstra University, New York.