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Dana Eckert

Dana Eckert

Founder of INSPIRE, leadership development strategist specializing in emotional intelligence, trust, and reducing leadership friction in organizations.

Jul 28, 2026

2:24
Tell us a little bit about your background.
2:25
awesome joke that I've been studying group dynamics since birth because I'm actually a triplet.
2:33
So I, yeah, I understood what it meant to be a team player and often leadership development very early on.
2:41
But I actually started my professional career at being accepted into a leadership development program as a participant myself, which I started in hospitality operations, which Feels very full circle to have started in a leadership development program and now having spent my career really building out leadership development programs.
3:05
But as I said, my early career was in hospitality operations and If you've ever worked in hospitality, you know, you get big streams of leadership very, very early on.
3:19
You know, I kid you not, my very first week as a manager at the age of 22, I had to hire and fire someone.
3:26
All in that way, you know, we talk about being thrown in in the deep end right away.
5:46
That was a very hard transition.

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