Meet Dena
Workplace Well-being, Burnout Prevention, and Leadership Development
Author, Speaker, Consultant & Transformation Coach
Dena Samuels, PhD, serves as a workplace well-being, burnout prevention, and leadership development consultant, author, speaker, & coach. As an award-winning tenured professor, Dr. Samuels taught at the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs for 20 years while consulting around the U.S. and beyond. She now consults and coaches full-time on mindfulness, wellness, resiliency, and inclusive leadership development, and remains on faculty at the university. Her latest program, “Overcoming Burnout: INNER Self-Care Solutions,” is a widely sought-after 4-part series that provides hands-on strategies for building resiliency, wholeness, and community. By request from clients, her latest book, “Fast Relief from Anxiety: 25 Tools to Calm Your Nervous System” offers solutions to the common anxiety that occurs with burnout. Among her other books and publications is “The Mindfulness Effect: an unexpected path to healing, connection, and social justice.” Dr. Samuels empowers and mentors leaders in all industries to expand their leadership skills and develop physical and mental self-care practices to prevent burnout and achieve their full potential. Dr. Samuels’ extensive client list includes over 150 organizations like NASA and Big Brothers Big Sisters; Fortune 50 Corporations like Facebook/WhatsApp and Humana; and campuses around the U.S. such as Yale University, the U.S. Air Force Academy, among others. Her community activism includes facilitating cross-racial dialogue, and mindful yoga. You can find some of her meditations on the Insight Timer app.
At heart, I am an educator with a passion for increasing your connection and sense of belonging in the world. I am also a springboard to help you reach your own and your organization’s inspired potential.
Dena Samuels
At the Hollywood world premiere of the award-winning documentary, “How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?” featuring Danny Glover, Ed Asner and educators and activists including Jackson Katz, Sean Hill, Kevin Powell, Dena Samuels, among others.
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Rates for Services
At DSC, presentations, workshops, and trainings are tailored to each individual client, and whenever possible, tailored to each client’s available resources. Set up a complimentary consultation with Dr. Samuels to design the perfect presentation (or series of presentations) for your organization, and to receive a quote.
Mindful about Money: our Financial Redistribution Policy
At DSC, we are committed to social justice and equity in organizations, on campuses, and throughout society. Our work focuses on shifting culture to create more inclusive environments where everyone feels like they belong. A critical aspect of social justice is equal access to financial stability. Based on US Census data, wealth has grown for members of historically privileged groups (white people, gender-normative males, heterosexuals, non-disabled people, etc.), while members of historically marginalized groups (people of color, all women, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and others) have less access to financial stability.
Because so many members of historically marginalized groups experience systemic oppression and financial insecurity in the United States on a daily basis, we must work to level the playing field. Much work needs to be done in this vein. Whenever possible, we must use our resources and our opportunities to create/transform laws and policies, shift culture, and find ways for cross-cultural healing in our communities.
With this goal in mind, when a DSC client is able to pay our standard fees, 10% of all net proceeds will be invested in organizations that are making strides in social justice. These organizations are owned and/or run by people of color or Native Americans, who may also be part of or working closely with communities with less access to resources: women, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and others.
This DSC policy is one small redistribution practice on the path toward positive social change, social justice, and equitable opportunities for all.
Organizations we invest in
Denver Black Reparations Council
An independent panel of African Americans with deep roots in the community leads the Denver Black Reparations Council, which will recommend grants from the fund to rebuild institutions, religions, languages and traditions within the Black Community of the Denver Metro Area as well as throughout the State of Colorado and beyond, that were destroyed during the enslavement of African and African descendant people
Our goal is to win citizenship, permanent protections and dignity for immigrants in the U.S. and to defeat racist, anti-immigrant policies.
