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Dawn Russell

Known for her polished yet hard-hitting style, Dawn's success relies on her insistence that engagement be measured at the bottom line

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Dawn Russell heads up The Heartware® Group and shows business owners, CEOs and Managing Directors how to add 20% (and more) to their bottom line through engaged leadership, by challenging them to financially measure and maximise the return on investment that world-class employee engagement can bring.

She is specifically committed to turning business strategy into tangible results through the optimal deployment of people, using the most powerful psychometric assessment tool for predicting workplace behaviours: The Predictive Index.

Dawn’s vision is to create a world where every workplace is staffed with passionate, purposeful, committed people.

To reach that goal, Dawn steers The Heartware Group to empower and enable leaders to design an optimised, engaged, and highly productive workforce through access to leading-edge technology, supported by education, training, and coaching.

Early years

If we looked back over Dawn’s life, we’d see a 30-year career with one of the world’s best airlines, Singapore Airlines, before she started The Heartware Group.

But there are also army fatigues, and a rocket launcher; high heels and dancing; curry creations in the kitchen, and all manner of green things growing in the garden.

Books galore and travel (of course!) – much of it to her favourite city, Paris.

Dawn riding in the MACA Cancer 200 in 2021

Passionate causes

There’s learning to swim at the age of 30 and several triathlons after that.

Then, there’s failure, emotional turmoil, bike riding, and raising money for cancer research

– and yes, Dawn is a survivor…and this year she’ll be riding for the 10th time in the MACA Cancer 200 Ride for Research

Speaker/MC engagements

Book Dawn for your next conference event

Known for her engaging and passionate speeches, Dawn can connect with a room full of people of any size by speaking from her heart

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Buy Dawn’s books

Buy Dawn’s book, “Heartwired!”

Dawn’s Amazon #1 best-selller, “Heartwired!” will guide you through 10 simple steps to becoming a truly engaged and engaging leader

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Chat with Dawn

It costs nothing to talk, so give Dawn a call

If you’ve got challenges with staff retention, engagement levels or consistently hiring great people, Dawn’s ready to help – just call

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