Sima Dahl

Sima Dahl, CSP, AS, and MBA, is an international speaker and branding visionary who will revolutionize the way you think about the business of personal brands. Her experience as an award-winning marketer paved the way for Sway Factor™, her ground-breaking personal branding framework that empowers professionals to generate demand for who they are and what they do. With bold candor, unfiltered honesty, and her signature charismatic style, Sima has traveled from Boston to Budapest showing business owners, enterprise sales teams, and association audiences how to out-hire, out-sell, and out-perform the competition.

Whether she’s keynote speaking, delivering corporate training, presenting a virtual workshop, or coaching executives, her passion is palpable. Her clients are progressive thinkers willing to embrace personal branding in business and who understand that in today’s hyper-connected, global marketplace, personal and business brands are inextricable and include such brands as Allscripts, BMO Harris Bank, CDW, Jones Lang LaSalle, M3 Insurance, Orbitz, Walgreens, United Airlines, United Benefit Advisors, and Zebra Technologies.

Sima is one of 12 percent of speakers worldwide to earn the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association and one of 88 speakers worldwide to earn the Accredited Speaker designation, an honor conferred by Toastmasters International. Only three women in the world hold both.

Sima was an Edmund James Scholar at the University of Illinois where she earned a BA in Communications and graduated with honors with an MBA in Management from DePaul University. She travels from Chicago where she lives with her heart-husband Bill their dog, Lolla (Palooza.)