Founder & Principal
JAPAN: Diana’s career in textiles led her to Japan in 1987, she was invited by the Australian / Japanese Wool secretariat. She later went on to study computer aided design for knitted textiles, at Shima Seiki in Wakayama. With re direction in her career, as product and services design consultant Diana returned to Japan many times throughout the 90’s working for Australian clients to design with companies such as Dai Nippon, Chiyoda, and Topan.
Diana worked in Tokyo, Japan from 2014 to 2020. From, 2016 to 2018, Diana began a series of different workshops, ‘Conversations we have through the Marks we Make’ & ‘Aligning the Brush with the Heart, the ART of personal and professional discovery’. These were designed in context to introducing Art in Business, enabling participants to tap in the human element, “in finding our mark, our awareness to knowing emerges”.
In May 2019, the first “Fabric of Awareness”, a Professional and Personal Discovery, open space immersion LAB commenced at Blink Community, Tokyo, Japan. This was conducted over a 2 month period. The LAB is designed to explore and engage insight for doing things differently utilising structured thinking and soft skills to arrive at un-thought-of and unexpected positive results, this relies upon our Human Abilities to Innovate.
It is suitable for organisations, businesses, startups and personal projects. For leaders and emerging leaders and those curious to discover and seek to gain insight and make sense of who they are and what they might contribute to the world. “Fabric of Awareness” immersion LABs were to be held throughout 2020. These were canceled in 2020. They are scheduled to recommence mid year 2023.
Diana is also available for one to one mentoring and to conduct the immersion LAB within other countries.
In 2020, due to COVID-19 Diana returned to Sydney, Australia, In 2021 she re-commenced one-to-one “Fabric of Awareness” mentoring. Diana will continue this online in 2022. In 2021 via Social Media, Diana started the Creator’s series of art works and writing. Please see: https://www.visionledglobal.com/creators-thoughts/ and or forward your full name, location and email address, to be added to our direct email list.
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Diana’s Story
Diana’s diverse background from art, aesthetics, fashion, to design for manufacturing, products and services along with business experience has lead her to establish a consultancy offering.
This comprises; The DoT Approach; ‘partner conversations’-mentoring, the “Fabric of Awareness” LAB open space immersion sessions. These address the human element, for personal and professional discovery (based in Tokyo/Sydney).
Engage – Taking the Helm Project and adjunct in house projects. In 2019 Diana commenced a MA by Research ( remote study) in the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation, UTS, Australia. Due to COVID-19 she was unable to continue her research proposal and withdrew from the MA by research in 2021.
Diana designed and developed the (DoT) approach, the Fabric of Awareness, “it began through abstract painting and drawing exploration dovetailed with over 20 years working in industry and asking questions that enabled clients to discover alternate possibilities to emerge. This formed unexpected outcomes leading to strategic opportunities and more”.
In 2008, Diana met Richard Hill and began an explorative exchange on creativity and how the brain works. Richard is now an advisor in Human Dynamics and Neurobiology to Visionled Global, the DoT Approach. Diana studied with the mind science study group and was mentored by Richard Hill, in Human Dynamics and Interpersonal Neurobiology.
Diana’s experience spans manufacturing to service categories, including international work with clients in Australia, USA, India, Singapore and Japan.
“Pointing people in organisations reveals awareness, it can form a profound shift, it enables participants to approach their profession and their life in a different way. They are equipped to apply this different way to challenges, working individually, privately or in transdisciplinary groups.”