 “Wow”
your employees, customers, and audiences with a one-of-a-kind, show
stopping performance by master motivator and improvisational actress!
Custom Designed Performances
Daena also offers unique custom designed performances
as an important adjunct to her training programs. She incorporates
the specific needs, goals, and issues of each group into the creation
of her original performances. Daena is a professional
actress, speaker and educator who has dazzled audiences around the
globe with her uniquely compelling style of improvisation. She’s
been called one of the "modern trailblazers" of improvisational
theatre and her numerous original one-woman shows have been performed
to wide critical acclaim throughout the USA and abroad. Daena's performances
provide lively and engaging entertainment for day
long, weekend or longer organizational gatherings.
Through original monologues, characters, music, dance and stories,
Daena creates exciting performances that reflect the psychological,
social and cultural complexities of our lives. She often tackles
serious subjects while simultaneously finding disarmingly hilarious
images and comedic enactments that reveal "the outrageous challenge
of being human." Daena's performances provide an entertaining
and transformative experience that helps workshop participants integrate
the themes and learning issues covered in the training program.
She often includes topical humor that arises in the group
during the course of the day. Some of her presentation and performance
clients include the Massachusetts WIC Program, Massachusetts State
Education Board, the United Nations Conference on Women, the University
of South Carolina, Bentley College and Imagine Foods.
RECENT PERFORMANCES FOR ORGANIZATIONAL EVENTS INCLUDE:
- THE ART OF CHANGE – THRIVING
IN TRANSITIONS
- THE NEW LEADER – TRANSFORMING
THE BIG CHEESE INTO FINE BRIE
- THE OUTRAGEOUS CHALLENGE OF BEING HUMAN IN THE 21ST
CENTURY
- THE CLIENT FROM HELL – DEALING
WITH CHALLENGING CLIENTS
- MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY – EXPLORING
THE ART OF TEAM BUILDING
- WHY DO TODAY WHAT I CAN DO TOMORROW?
– HANDLING PROCRASTINATION
- A LIGHTER LOOK AT OFFICE POLITICS
DAENA’S BIO
Daena Giardella is a motivational speaker, communications consultant
and professional actress who has been inspiring audiences for more
than twenty years with her custom designed training programs and
performances that entertain and educate. As a prolific producer
and writer, Daena has created and starred in a variety of one-woman
shows about the challenges we all face in everyday life. Her shows
have taken a light-hearted and poignant approach to everything from
dealing with the difficulties in our relationships, to the stress
of living in a high-tech, fast paced world, or the internal and
external limitations that prevent us from fully living our lives.
Daena’s talents were featured in the reality based television
series called The Life Makeover Project with Cheryl Richardson for
the Oxygen television network. She appeared in the PBS series Discovering
Psychology (which aired for over a decade), and A New Voice, a WGBH
television series about inner-city teenagers and teachers. As a
member of AFTRA she has recorded numerous commercials, narrations,
and videos and, she was a faculty member of Emerson College and
Boston Conservatory. Daena also received a special invitation to
travel to Poland to work with legendary theatre director Jerzy Grotowski,
who was featured in the film “My Dinner with Andre.”
Daena has presented workshops and seminars to thousands of participants
from all walks of life. Her unique method for teaching improvisation
to theatre professionals has been successfully adapted to business
and educational settings for more than two decades. Daena also coaches
corporate executives to dramatically improve their leadership skills
so they are able to speak and act with dynamic presence and authenticity.
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