Speaker Spotlight: Dawnese Openshaw
Master Transformational & Relationship Coach | Founder, Lead the Change | Co-Creator, Global Leadership Experience
“Your nervous system is the gatekeeper of your success. If it doesn’t feel safe, it will quietly sabotage everything you’re trying to build.”
— Dawnese Openshaw
AT A GLANCE
Summit Segments:
🎤 MainStage Live Session
⭐ VIP Deep-Dive Training
🎁 Free Gift: Mindful Leadership Workshop (Live Experience)
Expertise:
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) for Leaders & Teams • Nervous-System-Aware Leadership • Family & Teen Leadership • Transformational Coaching • Conscious/Compassionate Cultures • Communication & Conflict Repair • Servant Leadership • Parenting Strong-Willed Teens
Creator of:
Global Leadership Experience • Teen Leadership Experience • Mindful Leader Experiences
Works With:
Vision-driven leaders • Growth-minded teams • Parents of strong-willed or emotionally intense teens • Organizations ready to build conscious, high-trust cultures
Known For:
Turning emotional chaos into conscious leadership—helping individuals, families, and teams move from autopilot and reactivity into regulated, resilient, deeply connected lives.
👤 About Dawnese Openshaw
Where Emotional Intelligence, Leadership & Generational Healing Meet
Dawnese Openshaw is a visionary leader, master transformational and relationship coach, speaker, and author — and the Founder of Lead the Change, a leadership center that empowers individuals, families, and organizations to lead with emotional, social, and relationship intelligence.
A lifelong student of leadership, Dawnese began her journey at 14 when her father handed her How to Win Friends and Influence People. Growing up down the street from Stephen Covey’s family, she absorbed early on that leadership isn’t just a skill — it’s a way of being.
Over three decades of coaching, facilitation, and family systems work, she has woven together:
✅ Emotional and social intelligence
✅ Trauma-aware, nervous-system-informed communication
✅ Deep relational repair
✅ Conscious parenting and teen leadership
✅ Practical, everyday resilience
Her work lives where leaders actually live — not in theory, but in homes, boardrooms, classrooms, and kitchen tables… the real places where nervous systems flare, old patterns surface, and relationships either fracture or heal.
Dawnese doesn’t just help people “manage stress.”
She helps them rewire how they show up — so they can lead with heart, stay grounded under pressure, and create ripples of change that extend from me → we → us.
✨ Quick Access to Dawnese’s Summit Sessions
🎤 MainStage Live Session: How Your Nervous System Determines Your Success
📅 Friday, January 9, 2026
🕟 4:30 PM Eastern (Live)
⭐ VIP Deep-Dive Training: Regulate to Rise: Nervous-System-Led Leadership for Sustainable Success
(Exclusive inside the VIP Experience)
🎁 Free Gift for Attendees: Mindful Leadership Workshop (Live Experience)
🧪 Post-Summit Masterclass Pathway:
The Mindful Leader Experience: Create with Awareness, Connect with Purpose, Lead with Heart
These sessions will be available inside your Summit Dashboard based on your ticket level.
🎥 Featured Interview
“How Your Nervous System Is Quietly Running Your Business”
“How I show up creates a ripple: me, we, us. When I regulate myself, I change my relationships, my family, my team — and eventually, my world.”
— Dawnese Openshaw
In this honest, heart-centered conversation, Dawnese and Cassandra explore:
✅ Why so many leaders are emotionally exhausted — even when “everything looks fine”
✅ How autopilot keeps us stuck in old patterns, reactions, and dynamics
✅ The invisible ways a dysregulated nervous system sabotages cash, leadership, and connection
✅ What emotional resilience looks like in real life (not just quotes and memes)
✅ How conscious communication repairs conflict in families, teams, and communities
✅ Why generational healing isn’t a slogan — it’s a daily leadership choice
This conversation is the doorway.
The MainStage and VIP experiences are where the real integration begins.
🌟 Why Leaders Choose the VIP Experience
MainStage creates awareness.
VIP builds capacity.
If you watched Dawnese and felt your body exhale…
If you recognized yourself in the patterns — overreacting, withdrawing, shutting down, over-functioning…
If you know your nervous system is tired, even while you’re still pushing…
Then the VIP Experience is where your inner shift becomes real and repeatable.
This is not “mindset hype.”
This is nervous-system-led leadership.
VIP is designed for leaders, parents, and entrepreneurs who are ready to:
✔ Stop white-knuckling their way through growth
✔ Lead conversations without emotional explosions or shutdowns
✔ Hold more responsibility & success without burning out
✔ Build businesses and families that feel safe, connected, and sane
If strategy is your how, Dawnese’s work is the who you have to be to carry it.
🔥 What People Say Dawnese Helps Them Do
(Based on the consistent outcomes of her work.)
Regulate their nervous system so leadership, money, and relationships stop feeling overwhelming
Repair communication breakdowns and rebuild trust in families, teams, and partnerships
Break cycles of emotional reactivity, shutdown, and burnout
Lead with clarity, presence, and compassion under pressure
Parent strong-willed or emotionally intense teens without power struggles or disconnection
Create emotionally safe cultures where people feel seen, heard, and respected
Sustain success without sacrificing wellbeing, relationships, or integrity
🌟 VIP Session
Regulate to Rise: Nervous-System-Led Leadership for Sustainable Success
This immersive VIP training takes you far beyond inspiration. Dawnese walks you through how your nervous system is currently running your life, your relationships, and your leadership — and how to reclaim conscious choice.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
✅ Recognize external triggers (outside of you) and how they hijack your nervous system
✅ Identify internal triggers (inside of you) and the self-sabotage that shows up when “things get too good” (How good can I take it?)
✅ Expand your Range of Regulation — so you can hold more energy, success, conflict, and visibility without shutting down
✅ Use co-regulation to create emotional safety for your team, clients, and family
✅ Build daily practices that move you from survival mode into grounded, intentional leadership
🎁 VIPs Receive
✔ Nervous System Pattern Map — see your stress + shutdown patterns clearly
✔ Trigger Awareness Guide — inside and outside triggers, decoded
✔ Range of Regulation Framework — expand what you can hold
✔ Co-Regulation Scripts & Practices — language that creates safety in real time
✔ “Pause, Breathe, Choose” Micro-Practice — a 30-second pattern interrupt you can use anywhere
✔ Mindful Leadership Reflection Prompts — to integrate this work into leadership, parenting, and money decisions
🌟 What You’ll Walk Away With (VIP)
You won’t just “know more” — you’ll feel the shift.
🔹 A Regulated Leader Blueprint
A practical understanding of how your nervous system works — and what it needs to stay steady under pressure.
🔹 New Responses to Old Triggers
Concrete tools to pause, self-regulate, and respond instead of react — in hard conversations, money decisions, and family dynamics.
🔹 Emotional Resilience You Can Trust
Not perfection. Not never getting triggered.
But the ability to come back to center without destroying relationships or opportunities.
🔹 A Nervous-System-Led Path to Success
Clarity on why your next level of wealth, leadership, or visibility must be built on safety, not strain — and how to start.
💜 VIP Is For You If You’re Ready To…
✔ Stop leading from burnout and emotional autopilot
✔ Repair relationships without losing yourself
✔ Hold more success without your nervous system crashing
✔ Be the calm in the room — not the chaos
✔ Model emotional resilience for your kids, team, or clients
If that speaks to you, VIP is not a “nice to have.”
It’s the container that makes growth sustainable.
⚠️ VIP Spots Are Limited
To maintain the quality of the VIP experience, only a limited number of VIP attendees are accepted.
Once it fills, it fills.
If you feel the pull…
If you know you’re ready to stop surviving and start executing…
Upgrade now.
Your next level of confidence and income is one Story away.
🎤 MainStage Live Session
📅 Friday, January 9, 2026
🕟 4:30 PM Eastern | Live MainStage
How Your Nervous System Determines Your Success
This high-impact session is for leaders, parents, and entrepreneurs who are tired of feeling like:
“I know what to do… but I still can’t do it consistently.”
“Every time things start going well, something inside me shuts it down.”
“I’m leading, but I’m exhausted, reactive, or numb.”
In this experiential MainStage activation, Dawnese will help you:
✅ Understand how external triggers (people, pressure, conflict) affect your nervous system
✅ Recognize internal triggers (“too much good,” old stories, fear of disappointment) that cause self-sabotage
✅ See how your nervous system links directly to cash decisions, leadership presence, and relational patterns
Key Takeaways
✔ Awareness of your current nervous-system patterns
✔ A simple framework for shifting from reactivity to conscious response
✔ A new lens for why strategy isn’t enough if your system doesn’t feel safe
MainStage opens your eyes.
VIP helps you live differently.
🌟 VIP Experience: The Work That Changes Everything
Exclusive Deep-Dive Training for VIP Attendees
Regulate to Rise: Nervous-System-Led Leadership for Sustainable Success
This VIP experience is where awareness becomes embodiment.
In this intimate, pre-recorded training, Dawnese Openshaw guides you into the deeper layers of nervous-system-aware leadership — where emotional intelligence, communication, boundaries, and resilience intersect.
This is not surface-level mindset work.
It’s physiology-informed, lived, and deeply practical.
Dawnese draws from over three decades of leadership coaching, family systems work, and trauma-aware communication to help you understand why you react the way you do — and how to reclaim conscious choice when it matters most.
In this VIP experience, you will:
Learn how to regulate stress and emotional charge in real-world leadership moments
Understand how your nervous system drives decision-making, visibility, and income
Shift from reactivity to grounded response in difficult conversations
Build emotional safety through co-regulation — at work and at home
Expand your capacity to hold success without self-sabotage
This training also introduces Dawnese’s ongoing work for those who feel called to continue beyond the Summit.
MainStage offers awareness.
VIP offers integration.
💜 Why Leaders Upgrade to VIP
When you experience Dawnese’s work, something becomes immediately clear:
This isn’t information.
It’s regulation.
Leaders upgrade to VIP because they:
Know their nervous system is directly tied to leadership effectiveness and income
Are tired of managing success from survival mode
Want tools that work when stress is real, not just when life is calm
Need language and practices that repair conflict instead of escalating it
Want to model emotional intelligence for their children, teams, and clients
Dawnese’s work helps leaders stop overriding themselves in moments that matter most — and start leading from grounded presence, clarity, and trust.
The interview opens awareness.
VIP creates lasting capacity.
This is not about fixing yourself.
It’s about stabilizing yourself so success finally feels safe.
🎁 VIPs Receive: The Nervous-System Leadership Toolkit
A curated suite of practical tools, frameworks, and practices designed to restore regulation, clarity, and emotional resilience — so leadership becomes sustainable.
VIP participants receive:
✔ Regulate to Rise deep-dive training with Dawnese Openshaw
✔ Nervous System Pattern Map — identify stress, shutdown, and activation cycles
✔ Trigger Awareness Guide — internal and external triggers decoded
✔ Range of Regulation Framework — expand what you can safely hold
✔ Co-Regulation Scripts & Practices — language that creates emotional safety
✔ “Pause, Breathe, Choose” Micro-Practice — usable anywhere, anytime
✔ Reflection prompts to integrate this work into leadership, parenting, and money decisions
This collection is not about pushing harder.
It’s about leading from regulation instead of reaction.
🌟 Post-Summit Masterclass Pathway
The Mindful Leader Experience: Create with Awareness. Connect with Purpose. Lead with Heart.
After the Summit, attendees will be invited into a deeper live masterclass with Dawnese designed for those who want to:
✔ Lead with more intention and less reactivity
✔ Build emotionally safe families, teams, and communities
✔ Integrate nervous-system awareness into everyday leadership decisions
This is also where those who are ready may step into Dawnese’s ongoing programs and immersive experiences — continuing the work that began on the Global Cash Summit stage.
🎁 Free Attendee Gift
Mindful Leadership Workshop
(Live Experience)
This free workshop is Dawnese’s gift to all Summit attendees. Inside, you’ll:
✅ Experience a guided nervous-system-aware leadership reset
✅ Explore how “how I show up” shapes me, we, and us
✅ Practice simple tools for conscious awareness, presence, and connection
✅ Leave with one clear, compassionate shift you can bring into your next conversation
📖 LinkedIn Literary Feature
“Leading the Change: How Dawnese Openshaw Is Redefining Emotional Intelligence, Generational Healing & Conscious Leadership”
Published as part of the Global Cash Summit LinkedIn Literary Series, this feature explores:
✅ Why emotional intelligence is a cash, leadership, and legacy issue
✅ How generational healing shows up in everyday leadership decisions
✅ What it really means to move from autopilot to intentional, heart-led living
🌐 Connect with Dawnese Openshaw
Lead the Change | Global Leadership Experience| We Lead the Change | LinkedIn |Instagram | Facebook
🎟 Want Access to Dawnese’s Sessions?
The VIP Experience includes:
• Full access to Dawnese’s Featured Interview
• Dawnese’s MainStage Live Session
• Dawnese’s VIP Deep-Dive Training: Regulate to Rise
• Nervous-system-aware leadership tools and practices
• Conflict-repair and communication frameworks
• Extended replay access for real integration
This is not surface-level inspiration.
It’s embodied leadership work designed to support sustainable confidence, clarity, and aligned success.
🌟 Your Nervous System Is Your Strategy
Dawnese’s work is a reminder that leadership isn’t about pushing harder —
it’s about creating enough safety inside yourself to lead well.
When your nervous system feels regulated,
your decisions improve,
your communication softens,
your leadership steadies,
and success stops feeling fragile.
If something in you has been whispering, “There has to be a better way” —
that whisper is wisdom.
And this is where it gets answered.