CEO, Elevate Diamond Strategy; Strategic Growth Expert and Advisor; Author, 10-Step Guide To Creating Your Own Growth Strategy For Your Company: The Secret To Unlocking The Mystery Of Achieving and Sustaining Profitable Growth
Michelle Diamond is a Forbes NEXT 1000 Honoree, top business keynote speaker, and global thought leader on how mindset affects every stage of growth strategy development and execution in organizations of all sizes, situations, and industries. In both advisory and operational executive roles, Diamond discovered that different types of mindsets (whether known or unknown) played a large part of whether or not organizations achieved success.
Michelle Diamond is a growth strategy development and execution expert, executive, advisor, and entrepreneur. She has worked on Board and C-Suite issues for 65 domestic and global companies from startup, early/growth stage, small/mid-cap, private equity/venture capital, to Fortune 50 in 31+ industries, including CIGNA, Colgate-Palmolive, Elsevier, MetLife, Daimler, DEKRA, NRG, Constellation Energy, and Club Med.
A Forbes NEXT 1000 Honoree and author of 10-Step Guide to Creating Your Own Growth Strategy for Your Company: The Secret to Unlocking the Mystery of Achieving and Sustaining Profitable Growth, Diamond is a contributor for Entrepreneur Magazine and has been featured in Authority Magazine, Thrive Global, Inc, Los Angeles Business Journal, and other leading publications.
A Duke MBA and CPA with Wharton Executive Education, Diamond’s ability to motivate, teach, and inspire has propelled audiences to elevate and shift their mindsets, and take the right actions to both overcome growth and personal challenges as well as achieve growth goals in their respective organizations.
She has been a speaker and facilitator for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), WPO, NAPW, Year Up, and others. She is a frequent podcast guest, winning game show contestant, growth expert on national radio programs, and creator and host of Accelerating Your Business™ radio show.
A former Board President, Diamond worked in Strategy at Accenture and Mergers & Acquisitions and Assurance Advisory and Business Services at Ernst & Young LLP, and led efforts and volunteered for the United Way, March of Dimes, Boys & Girls Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and Habitat for Humanity.
Michelle Diamond on the Growth Strategy Execution Mindset
Michelle Diamond on the Growth Strategy Development Mindset
Michelle Diamond on Goal Balancing Mindset
Michelle Diamond on the Growth Strategy Execution Mindset
Michelle Diamond’s Speech Topics
Mindset: The Real Go/No Go When Developing and Executing Your Growth Strategy
Mindset. The foundational key to success in both business and life. Many have heard the terms fixed vs. growth mindset, and how that can impact organizations. However, there are multiple types and layers of mindsets that many leaders and executives have that can make the difference between success and failure when it comes to both developing and executing the right growth strategies for your organizations.
Using her dynamic and unique perspective through the use of memorable storytelling and humor, while also drawing on examples from her past clients and companies, Michelle will motivate, engage, and challenge audiences to ‘think and act differently’, while also providing practical and actionable insights that can be implemented right away.
Obstacles Are What You See When You Take Your Eyes Off the Goal
This motivational and inspirational keynote takes audience members through Michelle’s personal journey of being on her own since the age of 16, healing herself of fibromyalgia, her career journey and business accomplishments thus far, mistakes made, and lessons learned. Stories of how to overcome obstacles, persevere, and achieve success both personally and professionally will be shared and tailored to audience demographics and makeup.
Moving from Bootstrapping to Growth Stage: How to Go From “Gun Slinging Everything” to Having a Real Foundational Growth Strategy to Scale
In the same way we grow from being a child, adolescent, and then an adult, we also grow as a business. When you are starting out or at a certain level, getting whatever sales you can through referrals, networking, relationships, or happenstance (“bootstrapping”) works. However, when you decide it is time to go to the next level, and want to grow “like the big boys do,” you have to do things differently.
During this keynote, Michelle will share real-world and real-life examples from some of her past clients and companies to have audiences inspired and take action based on practical tools and the mental and emotional shifts needed to go to the next level and scale to limitless new heights and beyond!
How Mindset Can Impact Your Organization’s Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data, & Digital Transformation Growth Strategy
Artificial intelligence (AI), data, and digital transformation are significant components of today’s growth strategies for organizations, both large and small. While focusing on these areas is important, many senior leaders and those responsible for executing often forget that having the right strategic mindset and inputs can be the difference between accelerating short and long-term value creation and wasting time.
In this keynote program, Michelle Diamond, CEO of Elevate Diamond Strategy, will motivate, engage, and challenge audiences to ‘think and act differently’ while providing practical and actionable profitable insights that can be implemented right away.
Want to Take Command as an Executive or Corporate Board Member? Learn How to Brand Yourself & Have the Presence You Need to Succeed
Knowing how to brand yourself and have the presence you need as an executive or to obtain your desired corporate board seat is essential to achieving career and business success. In this program, Michelle Diamond will teach attendees how to create and execute the right strategy to effectively brand themselves and gain the respect and buy-in they need to get and stay at the highest levels.
What other organizations say about Michelle Diamond
The topic was definitely relevant and the perspectives [Michelle] shared touched on the core areas, making the time very effective.
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What other organizations say about Michelle Diamond
[Michelle] was excellent. I appreciated the opportunity to hear from her, and the questions answered seemed engaging at the end.