Founder's Welcome
Welcome to DASH Leadership!
When I founded the DASH Leadership Consortium, I had a simple but purposeful vision: to create a space where leaders—both emerging and established—could come together to learn, grow, and inspire change. Through mentorship, education, networking, and collaboration, we equip leaders with the tools they need to navigate challenges, foster innovation, and drive impactful progress in their fields and communities. Leadership isn’t just about titles or positions; it’s about service, impact, vision, and the courage to take action. Welcome to a community of changemakers!
Diane Hannah
Founder, DASH Leadership Consortium
Biography
Diane Hannah is deeply passionate about empowering individuals to unlock their inner potential to achieve their personal and professional goals. She is a servant leader whose mission is to expand knowledge and drive change by emphasizing the importance of a positive mindset. Diane provides strategic growth tools designed to enhance leadership skills, cultivate thriving organizations, and establish a solid framework for maximizing structures, optimizing outcomes, and achieving overall success. She is committed to inspiring leaders to prioritize serving their followers first, fostering trust, and guiding them toward accomplishing a shared objective.
Diane has over 30 years of experience working in the field of communications, which began while she lived in Houston, Texas. She was employed by Innerfaith Publishing as an editorial assistant and as an advertising sales associate at KYOK Gospel Radio station. When she relocated to San Antonio, she was hired as an on air personality for Martin Broadcasting's KCHL Gospel radio station. She conducted her first on-air interview while working at KCHL, and discovered another passion--interviewing community leaders. She enjoyed it so much that after a year of working as a radio announcer, she decided to become an entrepreneur. And in 2002, she published the first issue of FAITH Magazine, which afforded her the opportunity to continue interviewing influential difference makers in San Antonio and beyond. Throughout her entrepreneurial journey as a magazine publisher, she has been fortunate to interview Gospel artist, Kirk Franklin; renowned Pastor, Rev. Dr. Claudette A. Copeland; Former NBA Star, Terry Cummings; American record executive, businessman, university lecturer, and former manager of Destiny's Child, Dr. Mathew Knowles, San Antonio's first Black County Commissioner, Tommy Calvert, Jr; and most recently, Texas-based billionaire, Gordon Hartman, to name a few.
In 2024, she launched DASH Leadership Consortium, the parent company for DASH Leadership and DASH Black Business. In August 2024, she published the first issue of DASH Magazine. For more than two decades, Diane has played a pivotal role in the lives of her clients by leveraging her expertise to support them in bringing their visions to fruition. She has a proven track record of delivering results and helping make dreams become reality.
Diane Hannah is a former educator who served as an elementary teacher for the San Antonio Independent School District and as a dyslexia interventionist for the Houston Independent School District. Diane received a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication from Texas Southern University and a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership from Our Lady of the Lake University. Her greatest joy is being the mother of her three young adult children—two sons and one daughter.