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Michelle Diamond      

CEO of Elevate Diamond Strategy, Author & Global Thought Leader in How Mindset Affects Growth Strategist

Michelle Diamond is the CEO of Elevate Diamond Strategy, a growth strategy and execution independent advisory, consulting, and interim executive business expansion firm recognized by Forbes Magazine (NEXT 1000), Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc., Authority Magazine, Thrive Global, Los Angeles Business Journal, CEO Journal, CFO Magazine, and others. With over 25 years of experience in business strategy, management, and operations, she has collaborated with 65 organizations across diverse sectors, including Fortune 50 companies like CIGNA and Daimler​.

Diamond is the author of the book "10-Step Guide to Creating Your Own Growth Strategy For Your Company: The Secret to Unlocking the Mystery of Achieving and Sustaining Profitable Growth." Through engaging storytelling and humor drawn from her personal and professional experiences, she effectively motivates and inspires audiences to elevate their mindsets and take decisive actions. Her approach helps individuals and organizations overcome challenges and achieve their growth objectives.

Prior to Elevate Diamond Strategy, Diamond was Director, Custom Executive Programs at Wharton Executive Education, where she designed leadership programs for executives, aspiring executives, and high potential employees from all over the world. She also worked for CIGNA, where she was the creator and Head, Competitive Intelligence for the $1B+ Group Insurance Division. Prior to that role, she oversaw CIGNA’s $20M Printing & Distribution business, was Manager of Strategy at Accenture, and in Mergers & Acquisitions and Assurance and Business Advisory Services at Ernst & Young. She also held financial roles at Colgate-Palmolive and Citibank.

Diamond holds an MBA from Duke University, a BS from Morgan State University, and attended Wharton Executive Education. She is also a non-practicing Certified Public Accountant.

Speech Topics


MINDSET: THE REAL GO/NO GO WHEN DEVELOPING & 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 past clients and companies in her book, 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 will motivate, engage, and challenge audiences to ‘think and act differently’, while also providing practical and actionable insights that can be implemented right away.

WANT TO REMOVE ROADBLOCKS TO STRATEGY? – CHANGE YOUR MINDSET™

Roadblocks can be both internal and external. Many well thought out growth strategies and plans go nowhere, due to these roadblocks (which can be both seen and unseen). Growth strategy development, planning, and execution has oftentimes been taught and created from a primarily analytical point of view.

During this keynote, Michelle will share real world and real life examples from some of her past clients and companies mentioned in her book, 10-Step Guide to Creating Your Own Growth Strategy For Your Company: The Secret To Unlocking The Mystery Of Achieving And Sustaining Profitable Growth, and have audiences blown away and mesmerized by how some of the biggest roadblocks were eliminated using the simplest and smallest shifts in both mindset and action that resulted in achieving growth goals, solving growth problems, and turning around numerous organizations – and how they can do the same.

DON’T BLAME THE PERSON, FIX THE PROCESS!™

“Fire him.” “Move her.” “We have to get the right people in the right seats.” While sometimes doing these things will give you the results you want and need to move your organization forward, it’s not always the case.

Using unique and relatable examples, this keynote program will engage, enable, and empower audiences to know what questions to ask and learn the difference between whether or not the REAL growth problem can be solved or growth opportunities can be achieved by changing the people, or if the underlying process (or root cause) is what truly needs to be fixed.

MOVING FROM BOOTSTRAPPING TO GROWTH STAGE: HOW TO GO FROM ‘GUN SLINGING EVERYTHING’ TO HAVING A REAL FOUNDATIONAL GROWTH STRATEGY TO SCALE™

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 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 mentioned in her book, 10-Step Guide to Creating Your Own Growth Strategy For Your Company: The Secret To Unlocking The Mystery Of Achieving And Sustaining Profitable Growth, 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!

OBSTACLES ARE WHAT YOU SEE WHEN YOU TAKE YOUR EYES OFF THE GOAL

This motivational and inspirational keynote takes audience members throughout my personal journey of being on my own since the age of 16, my 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.

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