Denise’s diverse background in the fields of social services and workforce development has taught her the importance of developing and presenting strong leadership skills. She believes that anyone can be an effective leader as long as the would-be leader is in tune with his or her core strengths and motivations and understands how to represent these attributes authentically and purposefully.
Denise has built leadership programs for groups of less than ten and for a government organization of more than 3,000 employees and managed budgets of $250,000 to $5 million dollars. She earned a Meritorious Civilian Service Award for her work in developing leadership programs. These same programs garnered the runner-up award in a Department of Defense-wide competition for the best workforce development program.
Denise’s passion for leadership development evolved over several years. After earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in counseling and human development, she went on to complete her doctorate degree in educational leadership. Storied Leadership was the subject of her doctoral dissertation, and her proprietary Storied Leadership educational program is protected by copyright.
Denise enjoys speaking publicly about leadership development and has presented to groups locally, nationally and internationally.
Denise is an active member of the Women’s Leadership Affinity Group of the International Leadership Association (ILA). She facilitated a workshop on the Storied Leadership model at their annual conference in October 2012. In June of 2015 she presented two workshops about leadership archetypes and purpose/calling at the WLAG biennial conference.