Dimple D. Dhabalia
Writer | Podcaster | Facilitator Leadership and Story-Healing Coach Founder — Roots in the Clouds
💻 rootsintheclouds.com | 📚Tell Me My Story | 📆 Let’s Connect
🎙️ Service Without Sacrifice - conversations on hope + healing
🎙️ What Would Ted Lasso Do? Lessons on Life, Love and Leadership
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Dimple D. Dhabalia is the founder of Roots in the Clouds, a human-centered leadership and story-healing coach, and the best-selling author of Tell Me My Story—Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self. Dimple partners with leaders in mission-driven organizations to address root issues and design inclusive, human-centered workplace cultures where emerging and seasoned leaders across mission-driven sectors can learn how to preserve their humanity as they work to preserve it for others.
After almost two decades working at the crossroads of the government and humanitarian sectors, Dimple had experienced vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, moral injury, burnout, and anxiety. Like so many others, she worked in an organization that celebrated the resilience of the human spirit in the refugees and displaced persons they served, while failing to extend the same ethos to those working within their own organizations. Determined to educate and support heart-centered leaders, she developed and launched the Daring Leaders Project (DLP), the first mindfulness-based leadership development program of its kind within the agency. Her vision and leadership earned her Director’s awards for Innovator of the Year and the Pillar of Leadership.
In 2021, Dimple launched Roots in the Clouds with a personal mission of putting the “human” back into humanitarian work. Today, Dimple’s cutting-edge work explores the intersection of generational trauma and moral injury and supports a holistic approach to addressing individual and organizational trauma using principles of mindful performance, positive psychology, and human-centered leadership. Her new book, Tell Me My Story–Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self [Ambika Media 2024] is one leader’s message of hope and a map to healing for those working in service of others. Dimple recently debuted a limited-series companion podcast to Tell Me My Story called Service Without Sacrifice and is also creator and co-host of the popular podcast What Would Ted Lasso Do? and her work has been featured in Fast Company, CEO World Magazine, and the Federal News Network. For daily updates and content, check out her dear HUMANitarian newsletter and content hub on Substack.