Whenever Danusia reads an op-ed or hears a speaker or a panel wondering if women can balance work and life, her hackles rise. If this hackneyed question yielded novel insights, then surely after years-and-years of asking it, we’d have fully answered it by now. The archaic “Can Women Have It All?” debate did not provide the answers because it asked the wrong question about the wrong subject – and so, of course, it didn’t generate new cultural insights or inspiring personal breakthroughs.

Danusia pushes back on the notion that mothering automatically stops women’s progress or that parenting and career-building are irreconcilable pursuits. (They’re not, and she has evidence.)

Instead, she outlines a provocative new way to consider mother’s lives, roles, and selves – so that they can invent a new way forward. So that they can modernize motherhood.

She shares stories from her book, “NOISE: A Manifesto Modernising Motherhood”, in which Danusia tears up the old rulebook on how to be a mother, cutting through the cacophony around motherhood that drowns women out, and drags them down.

“Noise is the erosion of our sense of self,”  she says. “We forget who we are. Who we want to be. And we forget what is possible because we allow the Noise to dictate it for us”.

Danusia Malina-Derben is an electrifying speaker who speaks on women and work; mothering and self; and what it takes to succeed as an ambitious working mother As Founder & CEO of a C-suite consultancy, Danusia uses brings her academic career-track background in Organizational Behaviour and Development as a ‘toolkit’ advising senior executives and top leaders on how to perform optimally. She brings this same energy and fire into all her speaking events.

She will deliver one of her signature speeches to your audience or develop a bold new talk especially for your event. Danusia is available for keynotes, panels, debates, breakouts and workshops. She’s spoken to intimate groups, appeared on highly-publicised panels with icons and experts, and delivered keynote addresses at conferences and large events.