Name: How To Get Others To Do What You Want/Need (AMER)
Start: 2025-05-15T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-05-15T20:00:00+01:00

AMER

Talent alone isn’t enough. The most effective leaders know how to influence.

Your ideas, no matter how brilliant, only have power when others listen, act, and champion your vision. So how do you persuade colleagues, stakeholders, or even senior leadership to get behind you—especially when you don’t have direct authority?

Guest speaker:

Deni Miller, Director of Business Operations, ABB.

With responsibility for 2,400 employees across five facilities, Deni’s team is key to “Keeping America On” by delivering essential electrical solutions for utilities, data centers, LNG, and industrial applications. Deni has built her career through diverse leadership roles spanning sales, finance, commercial operations, and more.

In this session, Deni will share proven influence strategies and candid lessons learned from personal experience.

You will learn:

How to influence without authority, so you can inspire others—even senior stakeholders—to support your goals
Persuasion strategies to clearly articulate your vision, compelling colleagues to act
Communication mastery techniques to ensure your ideas cut through resistance and lead directly to results

Take the guesswork out of influence. It’s time to elevate your impact.

Deni Miller

ABB

Director of Business Operations

Deni Miller is the current Operations Leader for the US & Mexico within ABB’s Electrification Distributions business, managing 2400 employees across five facilities. Her team is essential for “Keeping America On” by building electrical solutions for utilities, data centers, LNG, and various industrial applications. With a passion for people and process, Miller has built her career through diverse functions.

Prior to her current role, she led the Thomas & Betts sales team (Installation Products) within ABB, one of several commercial leadership positions held during her 15 years in Sales. Miller also previously served as the US leader of ABB’s Encompass Women employee resource group (ERG). Her work driving equality at ABB earned recognition for both her and the company from Catalyst, a gender equity advocacy group.

Miller joined ABB through the GE Industrial Systems acquisition in 2018. Over her 21 years at GE & ABB, she held various roles across Finance, Commercial, and Operational organizations within their Critical Power, Instrument Transformer, and Electrical Distribution businesses. She holds a B.S. from the University of Florida and resides in Chicago, IL, with her husband and two children.

Deni is also a WeQual Executives member and WeQual Champion.

Emma Hicks

WeQual

VP of Membership & Programs

Emma is an experienced strategic leader, specializing in professional development at C-suite and senior management levels. With a track record for delivering solutions across a broad range of global sectors and industries, Emma brings a wealth of experience and a deep passion for continuing professional development.

Emma is a Fellow and Advisory Board Member of the Learning Performance Institute (LPI), holds certifications from the Institute of Directors (IoD) and Association for Talent Development (ATD), and is a former Education Committee member at the European Confederation of Directors Associations (ecoDa).

Ovin Mohan

WeQual

Director of Leadership Development

Ovin Mohan has coached over 1000 senior leaders representing the world’s largest companies. As a result, he is recognized as a “Brilliant” (CPO – JustEat), “Exceptional” (CTO – Prologis), and “Amazing” (CFO – Holcim) Executive Coach.

He has created award-winning coaching programs for Apple and received five-star feedback from 360-degree Coaching at Christie’s for leaders C-suite -2. He is a guest lecturer on various MSc programs focusing on strategic leadership development. He advises on a Board that informs the training for the leading coaching training company in the US. Ovin has led large-scale leadership development programs for NATO, the NHS, Barclays, and HSBC and has lived and worked in Chicago, NYC, Valencia, and London.

He was previously Head of Leadership Development, managing the largest CMI centre in the UK, delivering and assessing leadership capabilities up to PhD level. He also designed the curriculum for the Institute of Leadership and Management at L7 (MSc equivalent), which received an “Outstanding” award from ILM.

As a former athlete, in both martial arts and football, his approach to leadership development is driven by teaching deliberate practice of tools, providing feedback to refine those skills, and holding the highest standard of competitive accountability. This is further strengthened by his master’s in occupational psychology.