Dr. Deana Murphy, Pennsylvania

Dr. Deana is a cheerleader of positive change and is convinced she can help make the world more hopeful, healthier and happier by growing people, strengthening organizations and improving lives. Through her brand, Dr. Deana Unlimited, LLC, she supports both for-profit and social-sector organizations with tools to cultivate a culture of purposeful pursuits and overall wellbeing so it can effectively manage its people and flourish in constant change.
After working with Dr. Deana, organizations experience improved employee performance, engagement and morale and its personnel understands how to live out their purpose at work.
Working at the intersections of economics, business, design and theology, and mixing in her skills in leadership and spirituality, Dr. Deana began to formalize her curiosity in the latest action-research of cognitive, social and emotional behavior — linking scientific principles with Scripture and its relationship to performance.
She integrated the newest discoveries in human behavior sciences into a springboard for the concepts she defines as Positive Organizational Intelligence and SoPositive Leadership Coaching to facilitate large-scale innovation-inspired organizational design with proven outcomes that rouse better performance, higher productivity, fuller engagement in work and life.
Her research and advice has received attention from CBN, O (Oprah) Magazine, Huffington Post, Fine Living, HGTV, Panache Publication, Meredith Books, Exceptional People and is on the list of top 50 minority businesses by the Philadelphia Business Journal and was honored as a woman of outstanding leadership by The International Women’s Leadership Association. She’s a former adjunct educator, has authored three books and is an affiliate member of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital—a Harvard medical school affiliate. Dr. Deana lives out her core strengths of spirituality, love of learning and curiosity. She enjoys traveling abroad and has driven from Spain to the Gibraltar town and up the Rock of Gibraltar. You may see her driving around festive communities browsing the sites, exploring in art museums, enjoying live classical music, tasting in Whole Foods Market, or in one of her favorite malls doing what comes natural—shopping. One of Dr. Deana’s favorite books is The Principals and Power of Vision by Dr. Myles Munroe and her philosophy is simple: “Life is too short to be something you’re not.”