Dawn Metcalfe
- Communication expert helping develop skills and behaviours enabling success
- Founder of PDSi in the United Arab Emirates
- Bestselling author on books about effective communication, career advancement, and changing behaviours
Dawn Metcalfe, a communication expert, helps teams, individuals, and organisations develop skills and behaviours needed to succeed in today’s world. This implies they should hear and be heard effectively, speak up, and embrace change. In other words, to communicate effectively, motivate others, and lead with impact.
A highly successful author, Dawn Metcalfe has worked and lived in eight countries. Her career has seen her work with people from across the globe and organisations of all sizes and industries. She has taught teachers in China and Japan, been on the fast track to becoming a UK headteacher, been a medical education consultant, and set up her own successful business, PDS, in the United Arab Emirates.
Her experience has taught Dawn Metcalfe one thing: effective communication is difficult, no matter your age, culture, background, or experience. And poor communication can cost a business billions of dollars per year. Her mission is to help people overcome communication difficulties, build no-fear workplace cultures, and help shape the workforce of the future.
Dawn Metcalfe has written about this extensively for Entrepreneur, Thrive Global, Training Magazine, Arabian Business, and various others. She is also a regular Forbes contributor.
The author of three bestselling books on effective communication, career advancement, and changing behaviours, Dawn Metcalfe started PDSi. The business aims to help drive both behavioural and cultural change.
Dawn Metcalfe – Speaker
Dawn Metcalfe is not only a sought-after keynote speaker. She is also a lively moderator and panellist. As a speaker, she wishes to help people of all ages, from students just starting on their career path to seasoned pros. She is based in the UAE, speaks seven languages, and presents in English.
Speaking Topics
- A culture of candour is everything: Are you creating or killing it?
- Motivating others in times of change
- Possibilities – how to bridge the gap from education to work for career success
- Hugs, smiles, and team-building exercises don’t transform teams. Conflict does.
- How to build a no-fear culture
- How to channel conflict into change
- HardTalk in healthcare: When avoiding difficult conversations could be a matter of life or death
- HardTalk: How to effectively engage in the difficult conversations holding you back
- How to create a stand-up and speak out culture