Speaking
Your audience does not need another speaker telling them to believe in themselves.
They need someone willing to name why smart, capable leaders keep second-guessing what they know, and what it costs them and their organizations.
Dina Scippa delivers provocative, deeply human talks about decision-making, authority, ambition, and what it means to lead before certainty arrives.
Speaking reel, Dina Scippa
(a), On stage
People laugh. They wince. Then they recognize themselves.
Dina brings twenty years of leadership experience, hard-earned honesty, and a remarkable ability to say the thing everyone in the room has been carefully stepping around.
Her talks are substantive enough for senior executives, personal enough to stay with people, and practical enough to change the conversation after the applause ends.
No empty motivation. No recycled leadership clichés. No corporate Barbie. And no suspiciously perfect story tied up in a bow.
Dina tells the truth about leadership as it is actually lived.
(b), Signature keynote
The Leadership Blind Spot: Why Decision-Making May Be the Most Overlooked Predictor of Executive Success
Organizations spend heavily on executive presence, communication, and confidence while overlooking the behavior that turns all three into results: making the call.
In this keynote, Dina explores why capable leaders hesitate, how organizations quietly train people to over-consult and escalate, and what it takes to move responsibly when certainty is unavailable. She challenges the assumption that slow decisions are simply the result of weak leadership , and shows how authority, culture, risk, identity, and self-trust shape whether good judgment becomes action.
Audiences will leave able to
- 01Recognize decision drag before it becomes an execution problem
- 02Distinguish thoughtful deliberation from expensive hesitation
- 03Understand how organizational systems can produce the behavior they criticize
- 04See how authority, culture, identity, and self-trust shape action
- 05Identify one decision they are ready to stop circling
(c), Additional speaking topics
The Audacity Gap: Why Women Are Still Waiting for Permission
Women are not suffering from a universal confidence shortage. They are making decisions inside systems that often give them a smaller margin for error. Dina examines the distance between what women know and their willingness to act without additional certainty, permission, or validation, and what organizations must change if they want more women exercising real authority.
Leadership Without Certainty
Leadership is not the ability to know exactly what will happen. It is the ability to move responsibly when certainty is unavailable. This talk gives leaders a more honest and useful model for making consequential decisions under pressure.
The Decision Nobody Owns
When accountability is shared by everyone, ownership often belongs to no one. Dina explores why decisions circulate, escalate, and reopen, and what it takes to put real ownership back into the room.
From Executive Presence to Executive Action
Presence may shape how a leader is perceived. Decisions determine what actually moves. Dina challenges audiences to stop performing leadership and start examining the choices through which leadership becomes visible.
(d), Best for
Book the talk people will still be discussing at dinner.
Every engagement is tailored to the audience, the organization, and the conversation leaders need to have after Dina leaves the stage.
- 01Executive offsites
- 02Leadership conferences
- 03Company events
- 04Professional associations
- 05Universities
- 06Women’s leadership programs
- 07Organizations navigating growth, uncertainty, or change
Heard Dina speak?
If something she named felt uncomfortably familiar, the Decision Velocity Index can help you see how it is showing up inside your organization.