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Dena Samuels, PhD

Leadership Development Expert and Executive Coach

About

Dena Samuels, PhD, is a leadership development consultant, executive coach, speaker, and social scientist with more than 25 years of experience working at the intersection of resilient leadership, sustainable performance, and organizational culture. An award-winning tenured professor at the University of Colorado — Colorado Springs, she now consults and coaches full-time while remaining on faculty.

Dr. Samuels is the creator of The Inner Edge Leadership Series, a complete leadership development pathway built around the proprietary INNER framework — five core capacities that develop the internal leadership skills most programs never address. Her latest book, Fast Relief from Anxiety: 25 Tools to Calm Your Nervous System, and her earlier work, The Mindfulness Effect, reflect the depth and breadth of her approach to inner leadership development.

Her client portfolio spans Fortune 50 corporations and more than 150 organizations across the U.S. and beyond, including NASA, Yale University, PBS, Humana, the US Air Force Academy, and Facebook/WhatsApp.

Contact her at www.denasamuels.com.

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