Dena Samuels
Dena Samuels, PhD, serves as a mindfulness-based diversity, equity, and inclusion author, speaker, leadership trainer, and consultant. As an award-winning tenured professor, Dr. Samuels taught at the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs for 20 years while consulting nationally and internationally. She now consults full-time on mindful, inclusive leadership development, and remains on faculty at the university. Author of several books and many other publications, her passions include inspiring people to raise their personal and social awareness to live more fulfilling, connected, and meaningful lives; and assisting organizations, campuses, and corporations in building more diverse, equitable, and inclusive cultures. Her community activism focuses on facilitating cross-racial dialogue. At heart, I am an educator with a passion for increasing your connection and sense of belonging in the world to help you reach your own and your organization’s inspired potential.
