Her mission is to encourage, hearten and enthuse the individual to achieve their limitless potential. As a professional keynote speaker, her attitude and energy is infectious as people benefit from her poignant insights and perspectives. Few speakers offer the depth, belief; connection and tools that are necessary to assist people achieve their inexhaustible power as Victoria does. As a keynote speaker she achieves results for the organization that are long term and sustainable.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL PASSION

 

Victoria’s passion is to infuse your most valuable asset, “Your People” with creative resources and direction. There is no greater joy than to watch your employees recognize and surpass all their pre-conceived ideas, reaching new and surprising heights in personal and professional development.

 

Drawing on twenty-five years of corporate and business experience, Victoria will coach your people, while developing, motivating and inspiring them to work, innovate and lead from the power within.

 

Whether speaking or coaching, Victoria is dedicated to maximizing client value, assisting them to develop, opening the door for growth and innovation through the creative limitless potential of the mind.

 

Finally, Victoria will help your organization take the ultimate step to unite your staff’s personal goals with corporate goals while assisting them to find true harmony in themselves and the workplace. With this collective approach, Victoria aids you in identifying critical issues and problem solving opportunities while she guides you to generate unconventional and extraordinarily effective outcomes.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

 

Victoria’s professional career spans twenty-five years of; teaching, counseling, owning, and operating her own businesses.

 

She studied management specializing in the hospitality industry however later she chose to take over her parents business in textile manufacturing that she grew up in. Additional studies in fashion design and knitwear mechanics helped her expand and change the direction of the business.  After having spent several successful years in that field, she yearned for more.

 

Victoria’s love was people; she was fascinated with what made them tick, so she began to counsel and coach people in their professional and personal lives. At the same time, she continued with her other love, acting and later teaching for a private academy.

 

Coming from a business background, she felt it was more responsible to expand her horizons and began several businesses while putting her true passions of counseling and acting on the slow burner.

 

Her business ventures ranged from:

Manufacturing

Retail

Financial services

Conference organization

Hospitality

Film & TV production

 

She obtained Train the Trainer and Film and TV production certificates. Promptly began working as a producer, director and editor in a film and television production company. Victoria went on to develop her own film projects that were purchased by the AFI and other independent distributors.

 

The leg of her life’s journey that was to change her forever was a trip around the world that culminated with her falling in love with New York. There she furthered her studies with a famous method-acting teacher, simultaneously establishing a Film and TV production company, producing and hosting her own lifestyle TV talk show, “DIA“.

 

While the show was in development, Victoria supplemented her income by coaching, counseling, teaching, acting in addition to doing the rounds of agents, auditions and performing in the Big Apple.

 

Victoria’s experience is vast; she has developed all of her businesses from scratch and sold each for a healthy profit.

 

She holds Associate Professor positions in the Finance and Economic departments of St. Johns University as well as the Workshop in Business Opportunities (WIBO) school in New York. She is a member of the American Business Women’s Association, Toastmasters International, Chamber of Commerce, Directors and Producers Guild; she also holds membership in the American and Australian acting unions, Equity and SAG.