Deanna Singh

General Overview:
In order to tackle some of the greatest challenges in the world, we need to figure out more innovative ways to use our expertise and resources. Social enterprise is emerging as one of the best and most promising ways to redeploy our efforts to make change sustainably. Through social enterprise, organizations can build self-sustaining solutions. However, many people do not understand what social enterprise is or grasp the magnitude of its potential. In this training, Deanna breaks the idea of social enterprise down in a way that allows leaders to think about how they might be able to use it in their own work, regardless of whether they are representing a for-profit, government, or non-profit organization.

This program is perfect for individuals who want to know more about social enterprise and how it is changing the way we utilize strong businesses to make meaningful change in our communities!

Key Takeaways:

A general overview of social enterprise principles A deeper understanding of how social enterprises are built by reviewing case studies

How social enterprise can diversify your revenue streams An opportunity to apply the ideas of social enterprise to a wide variety of social challenges

Formats:

Keynote: 45–60 minutes (with approximately 15 minutes for questions)Workshop: 1.5 hours

General Overview:
You did it or are about to do it—start your own company! Congratulations! A startup is awesome but it also comes with a host of special challenges. Here are some of the most pressing questions for people in the startup phase:

How do you maintain your sanity with so many competing demands? How do you set up structures that allow you to be your best and not your worst boss? What do you do with the limited budget that you have?

Deanna Singh has started for-profit, nonprofit, and social enterprises throughout her career. She has developed a wealth of jumpstarting skills and will share concrete techniques to make your transition through startup as painless—and rewarding—as possible.

This program is perfect for individuals who want to start a company or are in the throes of it now, and are looking for some ways to manage the challenges that a startup brings!

Key Takeaways:

How to gain control of your time through a model schedule
How to make sure that you do not have anything that gets stuck at the bottom of your to-do pile
How to build an awesome team on a shoestring budget
How to test strategies FAST so you know what to keep and what to dump
And so many other strategies that will help you avoid common traps!

Formats:

Keynote: 45–60 minutes (with approximately 15 minutes for questions)Workshop: 1.5 hours

General Overview:
In this session, Deanna Singh, author of Purposeful Hustle, walks children through what purpose is and why it is important. Then she focuses specifically on one of the characteristics in the “Hustle” section of the book: initiative, courage, curiosity, or resilience. This talk is modeled after Deanna Singh’s Purposeful Hustle program for adults, but the examples she uses are modified to relate to issues young women and men are experiencing so that they can see how the tools are relevant even to young people!

This session is ideal for children who want to know how they fit into the bigger picture.

Key Takeaways:

Identify how to use your skills, talents, and passions to make a difference in the world
Develop a deeper understanding of what initiative, curiosity, courage, and resiliency mean
Reflect on what your individual purpose may be

Formats:

Keynote: 30–45 minutes (with time for questions)

General Overview:

Deanna Singh, the first person in her family to go to college, understands deeply how hard that transition can be. She had to learn a lot on her own, navigating through undergrad, law school, and business school. In this session, she focuses on things that are outside of the general college coaching scope. She covers the skills of networking, planning, dating others, dating yourself, and getting unstuck. These are five areas where students often fail during the transition to school. Deanna has been giving this advice to groups of all sizes for the past decade—and students often remark that it is the most useful advice that they received about the transition to university life.

Key Takeaways:

Practical tips for the college years
Methods to implement the tips immediately
How to create your own boundaries and why that is important

This session is ideal for students preparing for or who have recently made the transition to college, particularly first-generation students.

Format:

Keynote: 45–60 minutes (with time for questions)

General overview:

As the author of the book with this title, Deanna Singh focuses on the power that young women have to create a positive internal voice and to elevate one another through positive affirmation. Girls also love to hear about the writing process and to hear a reading of the book. A version of this presentation has been presented to over 5,000 girls...and counting!

This session is ideal for young women and educators who support them.

Key Takeaways:

Why being a girl is awesome
How to use your voice to help other children
Why it is important to value the things that make us different and the same

Format:

Keynote: 30–45 minutes (with time for questions)

General Overview:
Through the use of storytelling, Deanna will illustrate four ways that people often show up in the diversity, equity, and inclusion space. These examples will provide a model for attendees who are seeking how to identify their opportunities for growth, share their own stories, challenge their current assumptions, and build greater empathy for others.

This program is perfect for organizations that want to help their teams develop within the diversity, equity, and inclusion space and recognize that individual reflection is a critical first step.

Key Takeaways:

How to improve your leadership competency in the diversity, equity, and inclusion space
How to perform a critical self-assessment Practical steps for how you can foster a more inclusive environment

Formats:

Keynote: 45–60 minutes (with approximately 15 minutes for questions)Workshop: 1.5-2.5 hours
Online Webinar

General Overview:
Differences in race, gender, religion, and sexuality are often used to reinforce power imbalances. As a senior-level corporate executive, Deanna Singh, a woman of color with a JD and an MBA, was told that in order for her work to be taken seriously, she needed to “bring a white man with her” to her presentations. She was appalled and shocked by this infuriating statement, but, surprisingly, she was also grateful for the honesty. Ultimately, she decided to flip that statement on its head and turn it into the title of her forthcoming book, Bring Your White Man with You: For Leaders Who Want to Break the Status Quo. In this keynote, Deanna Singh will provide audience members, those impacted by these power imbalances and their allies, with tools to disrupt the cultural norms that make these “bring your white man with you” sentiments so commonplace and to help create the change that we all need to thrive.

This program is perfect for leaders who want to be better allies in the workplace and in their communities.

Key Takeaways:

Understand why diversity, equity, and inclusion are must-have leadership competencies Identify areas where personal leadership skills can be strengthened
Exemplify how to implement change within an organizational culture

Format:

Keynote: 45–60-minutes (with approximately 15 minutes for questions)

General Overview:
Race and racism continue to be tough aspects of socialization for children. As parents, aunts, uncles, and mentors of young children, many of us struggle with how to deal with such a strong dynamic in our society. Deanna Singh, founder of Story To Tell Books, a children’s book imprint that focuses on producing positive stories about children of color, provides commentary on the importance of teaching children about race and gives clear examples of how to do it in the right way.

This session is ideal for people who want to help the children in their lives develop healthy understandings of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Key Takeaways:

Practical guidance for confronting barriers of prejudice, misinformation, and bias about specific aspects of personal and social identity
Anecdotes and tips about how adults and children can respect each other, themselves, and all people

Format:

Keynote: 45–60-minutes (with approximately 15 minutes for questions)