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Dr. Dilshad

Dr. Dilshad is an Educator, Communication and Leadership Coach, Social Impact Strategist, Author, and a Broadcast Journalist

She is a professor of Strategic Communication and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University. She is also the founder of World Women Global Council, & Lead 2 Empower, platforms for social impact initiatives and global leadership training. She served as the co-chair for Women of Color and Media Outreach for Asian Americans in the last presidential election.

Her 3 decades of exceptional civil leadership have won her several local and national accolades including “Obama’s Immigrant Journey Awards” – for professional excellence and outstanding mentorship. Recently, she presented her research on “The Impact of Social Media in the acculturation of Immigrant Communities at the Annual Journalism Conference. Her expertise in curating unique programs and models of empowerment using educational technology, citizen diplomacy, media, broadcasting, leadership communication, and conflict resolution help bridge the gap between gender equality, economic sustainability and intercultural Communication to meet the global job markets She has also served on the advisory board at the Public Broadcasting Service for eight years representing minorities and ideas for outreach programming.

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Dilshad offers a thought-provoking approach to success… ”
– Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson

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Author

In confrontation 9, Dilshad Dayani makes a persuasive case on how culture can fog the idea of meaningful success and create unconscious bias towards one’s identity. More often than not, our busy lives constrain us, societal norms and ideals dictate our thoughts and behavior, and cultural values limit our world view. Confrontation 9 aims to provide you with a compelling and practical tool kit so you can craft a concrete roadmap, address grey areas of your value systems, process logical solutions to everyday challenges, identify unconscious roadblocks of conditioning and stop the negative narration which lead to self-limiting talks and lack of energy.

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Leadership Trainer/Speaker

Dilshad is a leadership trainer and a motivational speaker who delivers a strong message of diversity, gender empowerment and forward-thinking success strategies. We custom design diverse range of topics that will create a lasting impression for your audience. Book your next session now !

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Teaching, Training and Executive Coaching Services

Teaching and
Training

  • Intercultural Conflict and Negotiation Adaptivity
  • Pluralism Framework for Diversity and Inclusion
  • Strategic Cross-Cultural Communication
  • Emotion Regulation with 5-Point Mindfulness
  • Unique Models of Interfaith Conflict Resolution

Mindfulness
Workshops

  • Emotion Regulation with 5-Point Mindfulness
  • 5 types of Breath Work- Life Enhancing Techniques
  • 6 minute Hindi/Urdu/English Guided Meditation
  • Corporate Mindfulness Sessions for productivity
  • Guided Imagery Mindfulness for Children and Teenagers
  • Leadership Coaching In Diversity Sustainability

Leadership Coaching in Diversity
Sustainability

  • Beliefs, Biases, Prejudices, and Stereotypes
  • Sustainability Mindsets for Strategic Management
  • Communicating with Diverse Team Members
  • Diagnostic Approach to Executive Decision Making
  • Power of Neurodiversity and How to Engage Teams

Corporate Productivity and
Family Power

  • How to Build Vision, Value, People, and Practices
  • Future of AI, Worklife Balance, and Happiness Index
  • Ten Ways to Build Trust and Family Policies
  • Clear Map to Establish a Workplace Well Being Guide

Research
Interest

  • Intercultural Interfaith Conflict Negotiation Practices
  • Immigrants, Social Media Acculturation
  • Climate Change, Technology, and Cultural Shift
  • Gender Equity and Policy Gaps
  • Role of Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health

Projects & Initiatives

Our Projects and Initiatives from – Present have primarily focused on gender equity and family empowerment. There is much-needed political representation of our youth and young women. WWGC aims to continue empowering through education, media advocacy, proactive health interventions, entrepreneur and leadership skills, along with resource access using multimodal approaches. The STEM leadership and Microfinance Initiative in South Asia brought good outcomes in partnership with Asia Initiatives (NY).

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Broadcast Journalist

“Dilshad’s media work with the UN and immigrant communities spans more than a decade. She produced and hosted South Asian radio empowerment talk shows nationally in a bilingual format. She has delivered over shows influencing more than one million listeners along the East Coast and Texas for 9 years with multiplier family and community impact. She designed cross-cultural parental communication identifying mental health and acculturation issues, addressing them through mindfulness and interfaith resource mobilization.”

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Dilshad worked with IBM as a consultant for new university hires during a ‘Communications Camp’. She coached our employees to improve their written and presentation skills through role play exercises. Her leadership experience and insight helped ingrain individual excellence when communicating in client situations. Her sensitivity to the diversity of our audience was vital to creating effective, perceptual improvements for each person she interacted with. She is a dedicated, driven professional and it was my privilege to work with her.

Richard Turner

University Hiring Manager at IBM

Dilshad has worked with me for the North Texas Council for International visitors under the State Department as both a professional resource, speaking authoritatively and eloquently on the many issues and challenges faced by new American women, and as a programmer -citizen diplomacy for the organization, putting together professional visitor programs on subjects as diverse as Domestic Abuse and Violence, Women as Institutional Change Agents, and Trafficking in Persons.

Conrad Ornstein

CEO of North Texas Council

Newsmax Contributor and Newsmax Financial Brain Trust Participant; Economic Consultant to Dick Morris (former advisor to President Clinton), Former Consultant to Oppenheimer Capital, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of New York, and Mellon Bank

Barry Elias

Economic Policy Analyst, Economist and Journalist