Impactful Leadership

Uplifting Impact is a premier leadership development and training company dedicated to building workplace environments where everyone thrives. Our evidence-based leadership solutions inspire meaningful organizational culture transformation tailored to each company's unique challenges. With a personalized approach rooted in our core values of love, collaboration, growth, and joy, we specialize in improving executive leadership, employee engagement, and effective workplace communication. We deliver professional leadership keynotes, interactive workshops, executive coaching, organizational development consulting, and leadership summits designed to drive lasting positive change for your business.

How We Uplift

Through our specialized leadership development services, we empower organizations to navigate today's complex workplace challenges with our proven Bridging Leadership approach. Our research-backed frameworks address the crisis of focus affecting productivity and innovation in uncertain times.

Our comprehensive suite includes Communication Training that builds bridges across differences, Executive & Team Coaching that develops essential bridging capabilities, and Human-Centered Professional Development that strengthens connections in an AI-driven world. We deliver measurable results through customized programs designed for immediate implementation.

We partner with forward-thinking leaders to create workplaces where teams thrive despite external pressures. Our practical tools transform workplace anxiety into productive energy, helping your organization achieve operational excellence through authentic human connection. The path to sustainable success begins with building bridges that transform.

Our Services

Communication Training

Why is effective communication critical for organizational success in today's uncertain business environment?

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Communication breakdowns cost companies in lost productivity during periods of change. Our Communication Training builds bridges across differences, providing practical frameworks that transform how your teams connect, collaborate, and maintain focus despite workplace distractions.

Executive & Team Coaching

How can your leadership team turn today's workplace uncertainty into a competitive advantage?

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Leaders with high adaptive capacity outperform peers during disruption. Our Executive & Team Coaching develops the essential bridging capabilities that transform workplace challenges: awareness, empathy, adaptability, and collaboration – turning anxiety into productive energy that drives results.

Human-Centered Professional Development

In an AI-transformed workplace, how can your organization develop the uniquely human skills that drive innovation and retention?

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Organizations investing in human capabilities report higher innovation metrics and better retention rates. Our Human-Centered Professional Development strengthens the distinctly human connections that technology cannot replicate—emotional intelligence, creative problem-solving, and authentic leadership.

Why Bridge-Building Works

At Uplifting Impact, we believe the keys to great leadership lies in:

When we embark on helping leaders, our number-one priority is to make sure that our clients gain the individual confidence they need to lead themselves and their teams towards their shared missions!

Valuing all voices

We must learn to embrace the things that make us different and not be afraid of those differences!

Cultivating trust-centered leadership

Transformative results emerge when teams feel empowered to communicate authentically and collaborate without barriers

Focusing on solutions

We approach challenges with creativity and determination to find practical paths forward that work for everyone

A customizable approach

We approach challenges with creativity and determination to find practical paths forward that work for everyone

Working from a place of joy

We use compassion, humor, and hope when having difficult conversations

Hear it From Our Clients

Deanna’s delivery is warm and engaging and the stories and information she shared will no doubt positively inform participants’ business strategies and decisions moving forward to ultimately benefit their businesses."

NAWBO, Joyce Lee

VP of Operations

Deanna offered a remarkable Keynote to kickoff our AmeriCorps members term of service. Her genuine warmth and excitement was absolutely motivational and truly set the stage. We continue to get stories and appreciation for her amazing presentation. We are so grateful to have shared a powerfully inspiring moment of growth with such a tremendous change agent!"

AmeriCorps, Amy Porter

Event Planner

Deanna was authentic, engaging and delivered a message that was inspiring and uplifting - much needed given the major endeavors our agency currently faces."

Kathy’s House, Patty Metropulos

Executive Director and CEO

Deanna is a true storyteller who brings her energy and passion to her work and shares that with others. She helped many folks in the audience not feel compelled to make our organization more diverse and inclusive but also gave great actionable steps for all of us."

Cuna Mutual, Joe Hankey

SR. Diversity and Inclusion Manager

Working with Deanna is an empowering and refreshing experience. Her enthusiasm, her wisdom and her presence is a motivating force that will not only make you want to go out and conquer the world, but it will make you want to better the world for others. Her presentations are incredibly engaging and will create a positive ripple effect among individuals in your organization."

Quad Graphics, Catherine Wanzer

Community Relations & Inclusion Manager

Deanna was a joy to work with and a masterful presenter. She wove together professional expertise, personal stories, and implementable advice to deliver a keynote that was both engaging on a human level and informative on a practical level."

Opploans, Sara Cunningham

Onboarding Lead

Impactful Leadership

How We Uplift

Our Services

Communication Training

Executive & Team Coaching

Human-Centered Professional Development

Why Bridge-Building Works

Valuing all voices

Cultivating trust-centered leadership

Focusing on solutions

A customizable approach

Working from a place of joy

Hear it From Our Clients

Deanna’s delivery is warm and engaging and the stories and information she shared will no doubt positively inform participants’ business strategies and decisions moving forward to ultimately benefit their businesses."

Deanna was authentic, engaging and delivered a message that was inspiring and uplifting - much needed given the major endeavors our agency currently faces."

Deanna is a true storyteller who brings her energy and passion to her work and shares that with others. She helped many folks in the audience not feel compelled to make our organization more diverse and inclusive but also gave great actionable steps for all of us."

Deanna was a joy to work with and a masterful presenter. She wove together professional expertise, personal stories, and implementable advice to deliver a keynote that was both engaging on a human level and informative on a practical level."

We transform workplace challenges into measurable results

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