Dia Bondi helps transformational leaders find their voice and lead with it. She worked with Rio de Janeiro to win the right to host the Summer Olympics and catalyzes leaders across industries to speak powerfully. Her first book, Ask Like an Auctioneer, strives to accelerate one million women by guiding them to ask for more and get it.
Dia believes you are powerful when you lead with who you are, and she delivers on that belief in everything she does.
Dia Bondi is a communications coach and the secret weapon to some of the world’s highest-impact leaders and founders. She’s catalyzed leaders at global brands like Salesforce, Mozilla, and portfolio companies of some of the most significant VC firms in the US. She helped Rio de Janeiro win the right to host the Summer Olympic Games and has made it possible for athletes, Nobel Prize winners, and transformational leaders to use their voices to accelerate change.
After starting an impact hobby of fundraising auctioneering for women-led nonprofits and nonprofits benefiting women and girls, she translated what she learned into her first book, Ask Like an Auctioneer: How to Ask For More and Get It, with a goal to help 1 million women ask for more and get it. Her TEDx about that idea was selected by the TED Editorial Team as an Editor’s Pick.
Her programs are fun and energetic, drawing on real-world stories from her 20 years coaching transformational leaders across industries. With a bias toward action, and a commitment to sharing perspective-shifting frameworks audiences can use immediately, Dia takes the aspirational and makes it practical.
Her programs for women accelerate their goal-getting with powerful asking strategies. Her communications programs help leaders find their voice and lead with it.
Ask Like an Auctioneer: Learn How to Ask For More and Get It
When you think like an auctioneer, you can ask like an auctioneer and never leave any money or opportunity on the table ever again. This fun and energetic keynote will show you how to ask for more and get it using the mental model and tools from the world of fundraising auctioneering. Based on Dia’s book “Ask Like an Auctioneer: How to Ask For More and Get It” this talk will open your eyes to the power and potential of asking big. You’ll learn the one thing we do that causes us to unknowingly lowball ourselves, and a selection of the nine ideas from the auctioneering stage you can use to ask for more.
Join the thousands who’ve flipped the script, asked for more, and got it.
The Leader’s Voice Playbook
Find your voice. Lead with it.
Uncover the power of your leadership voice. This talk takes you on a journey shifting your perspective on the role of your leadership voice and how to approach developing it. A preview of The Platform Map, a framework derived from Dia’s thousands of coaching hours, this energetic keynote is packed with real world client stories from Dia’s 20 years of coaching change makers around the globe.
This talk is perfect for Executive development experiences where VC backed founders and senior leaders are looking for a pathway to have more impact using their voice.
Your Most Powerful Ask: Build a Rock Solid Ask Plan Workshop
Asking is one of the most overlooked and avoided success strategies out there. In this workshop, you will learn to develop a strategic ask that will accelerate you toward your goals. Rooted in the lessons of her book Ask Like an Auctioneer: How to Ask For More and Get It, you will learn how to build a rock-solid Ask Plan and transform the way you approach asking, forever.
Gain a new perspective on the power of asking, understand the four types of strategic asks you can make to advance your career or business, and be guided through building a customized Ask Plan even if you don’t have an upcoming negotiation.
Start using Asking as a success strategy today.
*Workshop: 2-Hour Interactive Learning Experience
Your Most Powerful Voice Workshop
Your voice is a strike point for your leadership, not simply a tool to transact information. But what is the foundation of a more powerful leadership voice? The Platform Map— a framework to find and develop your voice and lead with it when stakes are high and in a way that is uniquely and authentically you.
In this interactive workshop, you will claim your voice as a leadership tool, learn the four components of The Platform Map as a foundation for your voice, and draft your own Purpose Platform Statement—the first pillar of The Platform Map and the cornerstone of a more courageous and high impact voice.
This workshop is perfect for Executive development experiences where VC-backed founders and Senior leaders are looking for a pathway to have more impact using their voice.