Financial Expertise. Authentic Leadership.
Dana Raymond is a CPA, MBA, and CFO of YWCA Columbus, one of Central Ohio's most impactful mission-driven organizations. As the Founder of D2C Accounting Solutions, she provides CFO Advisory services to women-led businesses navigating growth, sustainability, and financial clarity. She also serves as an adjunct accounting instructor. With a career built at the intersection of financial expertise and people-centered leadership, Dana speaks to women leaders, executives, and emerging leaders across corporate, nonprofit, and entrepreneurial spaces, equipping them to move from financial avoidance to financial confidence, from doing the work to owning the outcome, and from compartmentalizing who they are to embracing their whole selves as their most powerful leadership asset. Her message is clear: where financial expertise meets authentic leadership, women don't just survive in the room — they lead it.
Speaker Topics
Dana speaks to women leaders, executives, and emerging leaders across corporate, nonprofit, and entrepreneurial spaces. Her presentations bridge two critical leadership skills: financial confidence and authentic leadership.
From Avoidance to Confidence: Understanding the Financial Story Behind the Numbers
Many leaders avoid financial conversations because they feel intimidating or overly technical. This session equips women leaders to understand the story their numbers are telling, building confidence to engage, influence, and lead with financial clarity.
Ideal for: Women's conferences, entrepeneurs, leadership development programs
The Leadership Gap Nobody Talks About: What They Don't Teach You When You Get the Title
Getting the promotion is just the beginning. This session addresses the unspoken challenges of stepping into leadership — from managing people you used to work beside to making decisions that not everyone will celebrate.
Ideal for: Emerging leaders, corporate leadership teams, executive development programs
Stop Reporting. Start Influencing: How Women Leaders Use Numbers to Drive Decisions
Financial reports are only valuable if leaders know how to use them. This session transforms how women leaders engage with financial data, moving from passive recipients of information to confident drivers of strategic decisions.
Ideal for: Executive teams, board members, women in finance and accounting
Whole Woman. Whole Leader: Bringing Everything You Are to Everything You Do
The most powerful leadership asset a woman has is herself — fully and unapologetically. This session explores what it means to lead authentically, embrace your whole identity, and show up with purpose, confidence, and clarity in every room you enter.
Ideal for: Women's leadership conferences, accelerator programs
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