POWERHOUSE GLOBAL MAGAZINE (PGMAG) INTERVIEW WITH: DIANE CURLEY (DC)

Interviewer: Lady Anita Duckworth-Bradshaw.

PGMAG: Thank you for granting us this opportunity, to learn about your incredible contribution to the betterment of others.

DC: I am honored to be interviewed, and I am grateful for our time together.

PGMAG: I want to use this opportunity to acknowledge your positive energy - It speaks from afar.

DC: Thank you, that is truly kind of you. I strive to be positive and to create a positive impact. We will all have an impact on our world, the choice is whether your impact is positive or negative. I prefer to be positive and I try to lead with compassion.

PGMAG: Who is Diane Curley?

DC: Wow, that is a great question! I think I am still becoming the woman I am meant to be.

PGMAG: I salute you for your service

I strive to be positive and to create a positive impact. We will all have an impact on our world, the choice is whether your impact is positive or negative. I prefer to be positive and I try to lead with compassion.

to humanity. Looking at your profile, all I can say is: Thank you for being a servant leader. Please share a brief of the work you do with us.

DC: Again, thank you for your kind words. My work is diversified yet connected. I am a Registered Nurse, Managing Director of eWomenNetwork Long Island, and Founder/CEO of Celebrating Women LLC.

PGMAG: As a member of the global response team, and we understand that your work involves serving those in disadvantaged zones which include; war torn countries, how do you feel each time you respond to a need?

DC: I always feel deeply called to respond, to help my brothers and sisters, to be there, wherever that may be. I consider the skills and knowledge and experience I have acquired in my profession as a nurse to be the gifts given to me that are meant to be shared in order to help others. It is a unique experience, a privilege, to be with people in their time of need and suffering. Healthcare is both the art and the science of healing, and I am fortunate to serve throughout the world in this capacity.

I also feel nervous, wondering if I can do what needs to be done. I guess that is doubt, and I pray for strength and to serve well. I am always energized when I am volunteering, no matter the totality of needs to be met, physical nature of the work, the long hours and the demands set upon us I am able to do what needs to be done. There are many reasons for this, one of the reasons I can persevere is because I am serving side by side with others

in the same circumstance and we lift each other.

PGMAG: It's obvious to us that your life is centered around "service to others”. Please share with us your view on the importance of "service" in leadership.

DC: Service in leadership is substantially important. Without service in leadership, you are left with power, and power alone is not enough to lead well. Service engenders trust, confidence, influence, teamwork, love, empowerment, growth, strength, and creativity.

PGMAG: What is your style of leadership?

DC: Servant-leadership most definitively describes my leadership style.

PGMAG: What are your three suggestions on business recovery amidst the global challenge (COVID-19)?

DC: First, I do not believe we should go back to “normal”. Normal served some well, but not many. Let us continue to integrate remote and workfrom-home options into our work week when businesses reopen to better serve our employees and reduce the impact of emissions on the planet. Let us strengthen the public healthcare system, ensuring equal access and care in our communities. Let us reimagine and restructure the supply chain to ensure adequate resources where needed. Let us work together as a global community to innovate best practices in education, healthcare, etc. I could go on and on but suffice to say “normal” is not what we should aim for.

Second, I believe we need to rethink the message in our marketing. Too many businesses continued to market during Covid19 as if nothing had changed in the world, and others used Covid19 as just another opportunity to sell and increase profit. Both approaches did not appeal to me. I would not want to work with a business that chose to ignore the impact of the pandemic or chose to use the impact of the pandemic as an opportunistic event from which to profit. The messages we use in our marketing need to be reflective and sensitive to the current events. Business is a relationship model and the messages in our marketing reflect how we treat each other in that relationship.

Service in leadership is substantially important. Without service in leadership, you are left with power, and power alone is not enough to lead well.

My third suggestion is to plan and prepare our businesses for the next global challenge. Businesses of every size were negatively impacted as a result of COVID19. This pandemic was unprecedented, and the world reacted. Some say too little, too late, some say too much for too long. Let us not succumb to another unprecedented event. Let us learn together, let us innovate together, let us plan together, let us prepare together, let us respond together, let us flourish together.

PGMAG: What are you most proud of as a service provider?

DC: This is difficult for me to answer. On any given day I could be leading an eWomenNetwork business event, or writing and creating content for Celebrating Women, or serving on the Disaster Assistance Response Team, or working in the

hospital, etc. I guess I would say that no matter which service I am providing, I am loving and serving others, and I am proud of that.

PGMAG: What are the two books that changed your life?

DC: Ah, an easy question! The first is Eat, Pray, Love and the other is Unstuffed.

PGMAG: Who would be your ideal traveling companion?

DC: Honestly, I am lucky enough to have traveled several times with my ideal traveling companion. She is my friend & soul-sister, Mae Caime. Mae is also a nurse and we go on some great adventures together. Crazy, fun, memorymaking adventures full of love and service.

PGMAG: What is your message to the women of the world?

DC: I see you. You are a brilliant leader, a force of nature, a strong advocate, a messenger of hope, a fierce defender, a compassionate protector, a healing presence, a bold influence, a manifestation of intelligence and beauty, a brightly shining light in the darkness, an innovative agent of change, a powerful role model. And so much more. I would love to work alongside you, and change the world, together.

PGMAG: What would you say to your younger self?

DC: You are enough. Let go of perfectionism. Celebrate everything.

PGMAG: You have been a brilliant guest, and I thank you for your contribution.

DC: Thank you so very much, it has been my pleasure.

PGMAG: Please share your contact details with us.

DC: WhatsApp +1 516 527 2867 www.linkedin.com/in/ dianecurley www.CelebratingWomenUSA. com www.facebook.com/diane. curley.98

I believe we need to rethink the message in our marketing. Too many businesses continued to market during Covid19 as if nothing had changed in the world, and others used Covid19 as just another opportunity to sell and increase profit.