Rysing Tide Welcomes Dana Hill as Cultural Leadership Specialist
Rysing Tide is excited to welcome Dana Hill to our team as a Cultural Leadership Specialist, expanding our ability to help organizations build inclusive cultures, empower diverse talent, and strengthen collaboration.
Dana is a nationally recognized speaker, trainer, facilitator, and consultant whose work focuses on the cultural dynamics that shape how people experience the workplace and how effectively they work together.
Her addition strengthens an important area of Rysing Tide’s work: helping leaders and organizations create cultures where different people, experiences, identities, and perspectives are valued and able to contribute.
Building Cultures Where People Can Thrive
Workplace culture is shaped by much more than a mission statement or a set of organizational values.
People experience culture through everyday interactions. Who gets heard. How differences are handled. How leaders respond to difficult conversations. Whether people feel respected. How bias influences decisions. Whether employees feel they belong and have an opportunity to contribute.
As a Cultural Leadership Specialist, Dana helps organizations understand and intentionally influence those dynamics.
Her work addresses bias, belonging, respectful workplace behavior, microaggressions, employee relationships, identity, and the cultural differences that can strengthen an organization when they are understood and led effectively.
The goal is not simply awareness. It is helping organizations turn greater understanding into stronger relationships, greater collaboration, and meaningful changes in how people work together.
Navigating Differences Beyond Identity
Cultural differences within organizations extend beyond the areas traditionally associated with diversity and inclusion.
One of the most common challenges we see is tension between long-tenured employees and newer employees or leaders.
Long-tenured employees often hold invaluable institutional knowledge, history, and relationships. Newer employees and leaders bring different experiences, expectations, ideas, and ways of working.
Both have value.
But when those differences become an “old versus new” dynamic, organizations can experience resistance to change, breakdowns in trust, frustration with leadership, and division between groups.
Dana’s work helps organizations bridge that divide, preserving valuable institutional knowledge while creating space for new thinking and helping people build shared ownership of where the organization is going next.
This broader view is central to Cultural Leadership: understanding the many differences people bring into the workplace and creating the conditions for those differences to strengthen rather than divide the organization.
A Nationally Recognized Speaker and Trainer
Dana has built a strong national reputation through her work as a speaker, trainer, facilitator, and consultant.
She has presented at major industry conferences, including the National Apartment Association’s annual education conference and ECI Group’s Leadership Conference, and contributed to panels for organizations including the Texas Apartment Association and the Apartment Association of North Carolina.
Dana has also helped develop national training curriculum for the multifamily industry, and her insights have been featured in Habitat magazine.
Her ability to connect with people is central to her approach. Dana creates environments where audiences can engage with challenging subjects, hear different perspectives, question assumptions, and leave with practical strategies they can apply within their organizations.
“I’m honored to welcome Dana to the Rysing Tide team. She is one of the best speakers and trainers in the cultural leadership space that I have ever heard or had the privilege of working with.
What makes Dana exceptional is her ability to connect with people, challenge perspectives, and create conversations that lead to meaningful change. She has a unique ability to take subjects that can sometimes feel difficult or uncomfortable and make them engaging, practical, and relevant.
Dana’s approach aligns perfectly with our belief that great organizations are built through strong leadership, empowered people, and cultures where people feel valued and able to contribute. I’m excited for more organizations to experience the impact she can make.”
Expanding Rysing Tide’s Cultural Leadership Work
Dana will lead Cultural Leadership consulting, coaching, training, and facilitation for companies and organizations across the United States.
Our Cultural Leadership programs address areas including recognizing bias, creating civil and respectful workplaces, microaggressions, employee relationships, pronouns and identity, employee resource groups, and bridging the cultural divide between long-tenured and newer employees and leaders.
Dana is also available for keynote presentations, conferences, corporate events, leadership meetings, and other speaking engagements.
Work With Dana
Interested in bringing Dana into your organization or booking her for an upcoming event?
