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My Areas of Expertise

Professional Development

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Career and Workforce Development

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✧ Professional Development

The Challenge:

Tired of uninspiring keynotes and workshops? Many topics are merely regurgitated content from internet research, leaving audiences underwhelmed with familiar information.

The Solution:

Elevate your group's experience with my 30-minute to 2-hour sessions, designed to offer profound insights to your participants. I specialize in understanding how psychology impacts career and business development, focusing solely on these topics. This ensures your group receives top-notch content rooted in groundbreaking research, fostering personal and professional growth. Choose from one-time or multi-day workshops, keynotes, trainings, or CEUs.

Examples of Our Most Popular Offerings:

Play Your Way to Clarity


 

Discover the power of play in shaping meaningful careers for individuals and teams, highlighting their personalities, interests, and core drivers.

Benefits to the group: Through play, participants build instant connections, gaining insights into themselves and each other's personalities and strengths. This fosters an environment where individuals can thrive authentically.

Be Your Own Boss


 

Entrepreneurs will gain essential insights into the top 3 psychological pitfalls that frequently result in premature burnout. By grasping the importance of aligning their core motivations and strengths with their business venture, participants can lay the groundwork for lasting business success.

Benefits for the group:

Participants will acquire the psychological tools necessary for success, positioning themselves among the 49% of businesses that not only survive but thrive beyond the crucial 3-year mark.

Self-Compassion is the New Fashion



Participants will uncover the triggers behind stress and anxiety, often manifested as disinterest, withdrawal, irritability, hostility, or reduced work quality. These emotional responses stem from unmet needs, demanding attention. Attendees will gain a practical approach to identifying and managing stress, all while nurturing self-compassion.

Benefits to the group:

Unlike typical stress reduction workshops, this session delves into the fundamental origins of stress. It empowers participants by providing reflective tools to identify stress at its core, ultimately promoting enhanced self-management.

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✧ Career and Workforce Development

The Challenge:

Many workforce development programs excel with job search programs because they can be facilitated as one-off workshops. However, it is harder to provide successful career direction programs because the self-discovery is a longer process that is rarely resolved through most assessments and some workforce development programs cannot offer this due to funding, staffing and time restraints.

The Solution:

Introducing the Inner Compass Process—a distinctive curriculum that harnesses childhood memories to clarify career direction. This program can be facilitated as  workshops or training sessions, complementing your existing programs and assisting participants in clarifying their career next steps.

The 3 Parts of the

Inner Compass Process: Rediscover | Research | Roadmap

Part 1: Rediscover

Participants will identify what make them feel alive, what holds them back, and what gives them a sense of fulfillment based on their childhood stories.

Part 2: Research

Participants will determine the changes they want to make — a new job, career, employer, industry, or starting a business. They will learn various strategies to build their network, tap the hidden job market, and ensure their career change is aligned with their needs.

Part 3: Roadmap

Participants will create a roadmap of next steps. Career roadmaps will include realistic goals, strategies to accomplish your goals, and tactics to overcome obstacles that might get in their way.

By the end, participants will:

  • Have a clear direction toward a fulfilling career and be well on their way to making a change
  • Understand what makes them feel alive and be able to bring that into their work
  • Know what's holding them back and how to move forward
  • Be able to quickly gauge whether or not a position is a good fit
  • Identify the one or two innate talents that they should be paid for in their career
  • Understand the CONTRIBUTION they want to make through their career
  • Be able to ENVISION their IDEAL DAY at work
  • Know which SKILLS they've mastered that will get them hired
  • Understand whether they want to change their job, employer, career, industry, their mindset at work, or start a business
  • Become detectives, researchers, and master networkers, and find strategies to test the waters so that they feel CONFIDENT in their new career direction
  • Create an ACTIONABLE PLAN for achieving their career goals
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Organizations I've Worked With

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Arapahoe Community College Logo, Colorado
George Washington High School, Denver, CO
Mental Health America of Colorado Logo
Women of Denver Logo
SkyView Academy, Highlands Ranch, CO Logo
Youth Mentoring Collaborative, Colorado Logo
Personal Touch Career Services, Westminster, Colorado, Logo
The Challenge Foundation Logo
The Eating Disorder Foundation Logo
Workforce Boulder County Logo
National Charity League Logo
Maryland Career Development Association Logo
University of Denver Logo
Edlavitch DCJCC Logo, Washington, D.C.
Global Gaming Women Logo,  Las Vegas, NV
Sandstone Care, Rockville, MD Logo
905 Careers in Transition Group, Denver Logo
Colorado Career Development Association Logo
Rockville Chamber of Commerce Logo, Rockville, Maryland
Rotary of Rockville, Maryland Logo
AARP Logo
National Career Development Association Logo
Longs Peak Networking Group Logo
Rotary Club of Potomac, Maryland Logo
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What Clients Say

"I would recommend Danielle as a presenter, facilitator and educator for any group or business environment."

Danielle gave a presentation for my Women of Denver networking group. Her facilitation skills are exemplary. She was able to engage the crowd with power, while creating a safe environment that encouraged conversation. When the group began to move off topic, she skillfully pulled us back on target to complete the presentation. I would recommend Danielle as a presenter, facilitator and educator for any group or business environment.

— Krystal Covington
Founder of Women of Denver

"Danielle and Keith were both dynamic and responsive speakers and let their expertise shine through."

Danielle Menditch Roessle, founder of Inner Compass Coach and Keith Bailey, Co-Founder of Articulated Intelligence, presented to our 905 Group "Professionals in Transition" career networking group on a volunteer pay-it-forward basis. Part of Danielle's and Keith's presentation was formal and well received and part was more of an informal question and answer session. They were both dynamic and responsive speakers and let their expertise shine through. They both took the time to assist each member as it was needed. Job transition can be rough for many and Danielle and Keith were sensitive to this and also provided pertinent (if not spectacular) visual materials to support and add value to the session. We thank Danielle and Keith for donating their time and would love to have back soon, as we feel the 905 Group can learn from her insights into career transition and the ever changing job market as it pertains to job seekers.

— Tom Kaufmann
905 Moderator

"The time you put into crafting such a wonderful, engaging presentation was evident and the feedback I’ve received has been glowing."

Thank you so much for presenting as part of our Speaker Spotlight series in March. The time you put into crafting such a wonderful, engaging presentation was evident and the feedback I’ve received has been glowing. Thank you again for all your outstanding work.

—Tim Webb
Manager of Programs
Mental Health America of Colorado

"There was a lots of great buzz after the event and you gave the group such great insights and takeaways."

Thank you for an educational and inspiring evening of college and career planning for our mothers and daughters. There was a lots of great buzz after the event and you gave the group such great insights and takeaways. We appreciate your willingness to work with NLC, Inc.

—Melissa Marks
National Charity League, Inc.

"You were so personable and the information you provided was very valuable."

I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for speaking with my class last night! You were so personable and the information you provided was very valuable and really provided an excellent perspective for my students. I really appreciate your time and the work that you do with clients from a career counseling perspective. You were able to connect with the students and discuss your experiences as a licensed mental health professional and coach.

—Laura Fazio-Griffith
Associate Professor of Counseling
Southeastern Louisiana University

"Danielle brings a terrific blend of warmth, wisdom, and energy to her presentations."

Danielle brings a terrific blend of warmth, wisdom, and energy to her presentations. I was very impressed with how much material she covered in her LinkedIn Makeover session, while still making plenty of time for questions. She is a real gem.

—Joyce Fuestel
Business Owner

Explore the feedback following my workshop on Mastering Storytelling for Job Interviews with Hiring Our Heroes.

I really enjoyed your take on answering interview questions and how to turn it into a story! Now I have a great framework for when I am answering questions! thank you.

— Alison Sellen

Thank you for speaking to us today at the Hiring Our Heroes program. It was great!-

— Ndidi Emekolom-Odeh

Thank you so much for all the excellent advice you gave us this morning during our huddle. I will be practicing SARM, practice, practice!

— Laura Sanchez 

Thank you so much, Danielle, for your wonderful presentation to our HOH Military Spouse Fellows this morning.

— Corinne Fitzgerald 

Danielle, You conducted an excellent session during today's HoH meeting. 

— Yolanda Thao

Thank you for presenting today at the Hiring our Heroes huddle! I loved your presentation and am looking forward to a time that I can weave your suggestions into my interview responses.

— Alexis Arizzi

Thank you for today's session!

— Shadea D.

Your presentation was well received. We had a great follow on discussion with everyone for the next hour. Thanks again for your time and talent!

— Tracy Steele, CPRW

The Nuts and Bolts 

Who do I work with?

  • Corporations
  • Businesses
  • Workforce Development Centers
  • Nonprofits
  • Schools
  • Associations
  • Continuing Education Units Training Providers (CEUs)

The Process

  • First schedule a complimentary consultation on the bottom of this page.
  • In our 20-minute call, we will discuss the needs of your organization.
  • I will follow up with a more detailed proposal.

Our Workshop/Keynote Formats

  • Time and duration:
    • E.g. 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 75 minutes professional development workshops/keynotes/trainings
    • 2-Day internal career development programs
    • The Inner Compass Process Online Course paired with workshops/keynotes/trainings for workforce development
  • Format:
    • In-person, remote (online, conference call)
    • Webinar presentation, keynote speaker, training, video series, curriculum development, online courses

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