BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Dana Hayes-Burke is an award-winning International Business Strategist, Consultant, and Conference Speaker, who has been featured in several international publications, including Authority Magazine, Valiant CEO, Caribbean Posh, and The BeyondWoman Magazine. She is the Founder and Chief Vision Strategist of DHB Vision Strategists.
Dana is known as The Vision Builder, and she helps leaders and micro-business owners scale their businesses while achieving new levels of growth and success. She firmly believes in the power of small businesses to generate big bucks when structured with the right infrastructure, systems, and team. Her research has focused on the internationalization of small and medium-sized firms, which has been published in the prestigious International Journal of Globalization and Small Business.
Dana has coached dozens of entrepreneurs and business owners globally to scale their businesses and increase their profits. She has spoken at conferences in over 10 countries, including the United States, Canada, Aruba, and St. Lucia. Clients have praised her for creating ‘aha’ moments that turn doubts into inspiration and inspiration into action. Her engaging presentation style and ability to make complex solutions simple and easy to action are well-known.
As a leader, Dana has extensive experience in leading a multigenerational team and managing a $1 million project budget. She has also built, nurtured, and guided a team to grow her first start-up to 6 figures in 6 months. Dana believes in the power of developing people to achieve extraordinary results, and she has done this in the private, public, and non-profit sectors for over 15 years.
Dana is a wife, a mother of two beautiful children, and a mentor to many. She enjoys empowering young adults to take the limits off the vision for their lives. Dana is particularly passionate about helping disenfranchised people find their place in the world and break through the limitations they have been given. This work is dear to her heart because it is so intertwined with her personal story. She has volunteered her expertise to organizations like the Microloan Foundation, which supports African female entrepreneurs and has developed an online Life Skills course in Trinidad and Tobago under the Commonwealth of Learning to retrain adults for re-entry into the world of work and entrepreneurship. Dana holds a Master’s Degree in Management Studies from the University of the West Indies, where she graduated with distinction, and she is en route to attaining her doctorate with further specialization in business development and leadership.
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