Danusia Malina-Derben Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

DMD Global serves top-tier, Blue Chip and Fortune 500 organisations in fresh ways through the practical application of years of organisational development and behavioural research. With a proven track record working with Executive Boards and Corporations, C-Suite teams and those with all the c-words in their job titles: CEOs, CMOs, CTOs and COOs - top team development is our thing.In a nutshell:The Challenges We See:- Difficulty leveraging top leadership to achieve the success you KNOW they should be.- WEAK understanding of how to take leaders and teams to the next level.- DYSFUNCTIONAL team dynamics that hold everyone back.- Other leadership development programs that have FAILED to deliver results. The Methods We Utilise:- Cutting through the BS to establish optimal success techniques UNIQUE to your organisation.- Matching IQ with EQ quotients to create teams who DRIVE collaboration and success.- INSTILLING bold, progressive leadership behaviours at every level.- Making room for leaders to finally do what you hired them for - deliver big, innovative strategies that BUILD your bottom line.The Results We Deliver:- Stronger connections built on RESPECT and TRUST at all levels.- A strategic process to ATTRACT and RETAIN great leaders. - FOCUSED teams who drive breakthrough results, now and into the future.- Teams that live and breathe the power of INCLUSION and DIVERSITY.- Effective ‘shock absorbers’ of the bumps on the path to accelerated pace, GROWTH, INNOVATION and CHANGE.- You tell us? We’ll MAKE it happen.This is not a consultancy for the faint of heart or those with a ‘not-sure-we-can-be-bothered’ mindset. We go deep under the skin to deliver truly phenomenal results.Our solutions are immersive, soul-shaking, sustaining and you won’t be the same when we’re through with you.We’re all in. Are you?

While working with top-level C-suite Executive, Boards and Leaders is the core pillar of DMD Global, we’ll bring the same full-throttle ethos to anyone seeking monumental change, growth and results; irrespective of industryFrom media personalities to accomplished entrepreneurs and politicians; if you’re ready to throw out everything you think you know about leadership development and get REAL results - you know where to find us.

Our varying cultures and circumstances mean all families live and love differently. But our unwavering desire to create meaningful, rich lives for ourselves and our children is the same for all.Yet, we’re spoon-fed heaping piles of BS that ‘life is our oyster’ — right up until we become mothers. Then it’s all about compromise, late nights, and sacrificing your identity, right?WRONG.I know this because I kept one important detail a closed secret in my professional circles for years: I’m a mother of ten. And I’ve built a wildly successful career not DESPITE being a mother, but because I AM a mother.School for Mothers was created with the intention of reframing what’s possible so all women can have kids and a career, without the guilt or second-guessing. SFM is helping mothers to cultivate their identity, while also having a career they love to:- Change the way they view themselves and how society views the role of ‘Mothers’.- Bring a new conversation into open society – well beyond the ‘can-we-have-it-all’ debate.- Find a judgement-free community of like-minded, ambitious and kickass individuals.Our global community network is a hot spot of empowerment. SFM provides women with the tools, guidance, resources and support to shape an authentic fulfilling life that’s unique to them and a beautiful ‘fuck you’ to all the so-called sacrifices we have to make.We currently deliver:- The School for Mothers and the School for Fathers Podcast- Live roundtable discussions and events- A private and rewarding online community via the School for Mothers Facebook GroupAnd will soon be offering:- Digital products and downloadable toolkits- Mastermind classes and workshopsImagine the difference we can make by doing things differently.Imagine a society that sees motherhood as a cornerstone of success, not a barrier to it.With School of Mothers, you don’t have to imagine. Join us, we’d love to have you.

The SFM Podcast was created to stretch traditional narratives around working motherhood and bring ambitious, talented, and diverse, underrepresented female voices to the forefront of this narrative - where they belong!Building on the mission of SFM overall, the podcast upends outdated perspectives and interrupts the noise that surrounds women on how they should ‘be’ once they become mothers.Launched from humble beginnings in 2018, there are now over 100 hundred recorded episodes, reaching a global audience in 79 countries, and over one million downloads to date.Offering smart listening for ambitious, savvy mothers, who want to live their lives as whole women at every stage of their life’s journey, recent guests include: Clover Stroud, Erica Jong, Jodie Patterson, Hollie McNish, Christine Armstrong, Marisa Peer, Jessica Huie, Laura Vanderkam, Molly Forbes, Glynnis MacNicol, Eve Rodsky, Nic Stone, Claudia Reuter, Alex Crawford, Ainsley Arment, and Meg Mathews. Each episode, we deftly explore the question of what’s possible when you’re a mother?Following on from the success of the SFM Podcast, and identifying a huge gap in the market, the School for Fathers Podcast launched in October 2019. Interviews with over forty high profile guests have gained over 15,000 downloads per month across 32 countries globally.Exploring modern working fatherhood (not a phrase we hear too often), the SFF Podcast seeks to uncover and understand modern fathering and the challenges fathers face as they reposition their role in work, the family and in society. Recent guests include: Jordan Shapiro, Dave Wilson aka Sober Dave, Tim Hillegonds, Ian Farrar, Tim Bentinck (David Archer in The Archers), Jamie Beaglehole, Brad Burton, Eldra Jackson III, and Stephen Sharer.You can find both podcasts on Apple, Spotify, and most podcast-promoting platforms. New episodes are available:- School for Mothers - every Wednesday and every other Sunday- School for Fathers - every Friday

My newest book, NOISE: A Manifesto Modernising Motherhood is forthcoming with Triumph Press in March 2021."An urgent and vital unpacking of modern motherhood, exploring the age-old question: How can I be a mother and still be ME?This candid, fresh, feminist perspective from Danusia Malina-Derben, NOISE invites women to explore and interrupt the incessant racket about how they’re told to behave once they become mothers. Part memoir, part manifesto and part guide, Danusia - mother of ten, entrepreneur, thought leader and top-rated podcast host - unflinchingly flips the conventional thinking surrounding motherhood. Dismantling the barriers that stop mothers in their tracks, Danusia dives deep into the traditional central tenets holding women back and opens an entirely new conversation about what it means to be a working mother in our modern world. An intimate and bold blend of memoir, thought leadership, and research, Danusia provocatively and refreshingly reframes the NOISE around motherhood, calls out the Mother Stoppers holding women back, and repositions mothers as the social change agents the world desperately needs."More information and pre-orders: https://www.triumphpress.co/books/p/noise Review and press enquiries can be directed to Triumph Press: team@triumphpress.co

As a confident public-speaker and truth-teller with a natural knack for nuance I’ve had the opportunity to deliver inspirational keynote addresses, moderate and speak on high-profile panels and debates, deliver workshops, as well as having been featured in social-impact exhibitions. I am especially proud to have Chaired the Oxford University Debate between Germaine Greer and Helena Morrisey on ‘Can Women Have it All?’In 2020, I was featured in an exhibition on working motherhood as part of International Women’s Day, held at the House of Commons alongside MPs and a small group of working mothers.Need an empowering, emotive and confident speaker for your next event? Let’s talk: https://www.schoolformothers.com/speaking/