 About Daena
Daena Giardella has over 25 years of experience in her dual backgrounds in the
performing arts and in organizational development and coaching. She combines these
backgrounds to design innovative professional training programs and entertaining
educational performances that target leadership & influence, team building,
creativity development, presentation excellence, The Art of Change©, dynamic
communication, negotiation & improvisation, effective group process, and humor.
She has worked with many prominent organizations and world-class companies as
a consultant, media & presentation coach, and executive leadership coach.
Her coaching practice has clients from virtually every profession, including corporate
executives, managers, doctors, educators, psychotherapists, engineers, artists,
managers, writers, lawyers, and life coaches.
Daena is frequently invited to give keynote presentations as a motivational
speaker and humorist. As an organizational training facilitator, Daena draws
upon her extensive knowledge of group systems theory, creative process, and
interpersonal skills. She custom designs programs that focus on the themes and
objectives of each organization, conference, or educational event. She recently
gave a leadership innovation seminar entitled, Improvisation & Influence
at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and she led an advanced
training in Negotiation Improvisation for the European Commission
in Brussels. Among her past clients are The American Heart Association, Hewlett
Packard, Babson College, Citibank, Smith Executive Education, Imagine Foods,
California Naturals, Mass. W.I.C. Program, The U.N. Copenhagen Conference on
Women, Bentley College, Kodak, Omega Institute, New Mexico Human Rights Foundation,
and The Royal Bank of Canada.
Daena is an actor, director, and member of the American Federation of Radio
and Television Artists. Her many original one-woman theater performances have
received wide critical acclaim throughout the United States and internationally.
The Boston Globe has called her an "impressive
talent" and the Tel Aviv Ha’eer wrote,
"Giardella is a phenomenon...a classic actress...an intelligent clown."
She has been called an “improvisation trailblazer,” and
she has taught hundreds of improvisational acting workshops for people from
all walks of life. Thousands of people have learned to apply the skills of improvisation
to life and work situations in her popular Improvisational Acting trainings.
She also offers Your Creative Process workshops, which help participants
cultivate their creativity.
Daena was featured as a creativity coach on The Cheryl Richardson
Life Makeover Show on Oxygen TV and she also appeared on the PBS
series Discovering Psychology. She was the host of
Currents, a talk and interview radio show on the National Radio Network.
Daena was also a faculty member at both Emerson College and the Boston Conservatory,
and she also co-founded TheraVision, a video/theater process for training
psychotherapists at the Kantor Family Institute. She was the director of a theatre
program for at-risk high school students at Boston’s Roxbury High School
under a two-year grant from Harvard University. She has given diversity and
anti-bullying workshops for teachers and students in many educational settings,
including the New Mexico Human Rights Foundation.
Daena has co-authored a new book with Wren Ross called, Changing
Patterns: Discovering the Fabric of Your Creativity, (published
by Hay House) which explores the power of creativity as a vital tool for self-development,
change, and fulfillment. She has also released a spoken word CD entitled, Improvisation
in Everyday Life.
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