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The Fancy Bio: 

    Dani Driusso is the powerhouse author, speaker and facilitator behind the Unleash Your Voice Podcast. Over the past 6 years she has built unique frameworks around Sustainable Confidence, I.C.O.N.I.C leadership and Social Media Consent. Dani helps to build spaces where leaders bring compassion, integrity and collaboration to the spaces they govern. She helps her clients take up space with their voice, energy and personal expression. Dani also works online with personal brands to help them step into the digital spotlight without sacrificing their values for success. Her goal is to support her client’s in building a fully immersive experience for their brand with a vibrant approach to helping them ‘own who they are’ online and offline.

With more than 10 years of experience teaching voice and performance, she has been a great resource for those working on Public Speaking, Confidence and Facilitator skills. She has worked with major companies and non-profits in Alberta as a team lead and expert, bringing theatre education to young people as well as helping cultivate courageous learning environments in education spaces.  Dani has worked with individuals of all ages from emerging young leaders to well-known multiple 6-figure business owners around the world on how to connect to their voice and get really loud about embracing what makes them unique in this world. She believes when it comes to leadership, the greatest leaders possess timeless qualities that help lift up the people they share space with. Through this she built her own process of leadership development called the I.C.O.N.I.C leadership approach which puts Integrity, Communication, Ownership, Nuance, Intention & Consent at the forefront.  Dani also has an innate ability to help support personal brands to build an immersive social media presence while also honouring their mental health and capacity.

    Being in the spotlight meant building a personal brand people wanted to hire and wanted in the room which brought her into the space of digital marketing circa 2016. 

From literally getting a degree in being other people... to building a career where she gets paid to be herself - Dani is committed to creating an environment where people recognize what makes them absolute assets to their industry, their relationships and their life. Hint hint: The things you often got told made you "too much" are the things that will make you famous. 

    Background In Performance & Voice: Dani has worked closely with mentors such as award winning author of Bitter Medicine:  A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness, Clem Martini, and voice/dialect coach Dawn McCaugherty, who serves as a faculty member with Canada’s National Voice Intensive. With this knowledge and experience, Dani has created a strong understanding of both the written voice, and the physical voice. She continues to work with kids in the education system to build confidence through process based theatre and works as a team lead with Quest Theatre. You may have seen her at Teachers Conventions, engaging other educators in practices of performance and teaching for companies such as StageCoach Canada to build performance skills for young people.

    Dani has been the keynote speaker at events such as The Western Canadian Leadership Conference, where she spoke on the topics of identity, advocacy, communication and confidence, while encouraging youth to find their own voice amongst the noise of social media and societal pressures. She has also had experience serving on the board of directors for mixed income housing and hosted educational workshops with CHF Canada. She continues to educate herself on leadership, bridging the generation gap within society, and opening up communication when it comes to socially charged issues. Dani has also brought her knowledge to workshops at companies such at Meetup.com as well as Universities such as The University Of Calgary. on topics such as: Mastering Your Marketing Through Connection, Finding Creative Ways To Utilize Your Degree and Breaking The Rules To Create A Potent Brand. She has also made a name for herself by empowering industry leaders with her signature I.C.O.N.I.C leadership workshop, as well as her Take Up Space and Social Media Consent workshops. Dani has been featured on platforms such as Huffpost, iheartRadio, Yyc Girl Gang and has had the opportunity to collaborate with multiple well-known Forbes contributors and influencers on her own personal platform. Dani believes in creating platforms for personal development in a way that challenges individuals to be so wildly obsessed with their own self-discovery, they stop being wildly obsessed about other peoples opinions of who they are. She has a process based and human-first approach that allows people to embrace all aspects that make them unique - while owning what makes them an asset to their industry. Her affirmation of “You’re fabulous, stop being so secretive about it” has become a solid foundation to her clients and students who continue to share their work with the world around them through intentional marketing, and unshakable confidence.