Tessa Lena (aka Tessa Fights Robots)
Tessa Lena is a performing artist, a dialogue coach, and an immigrant New Yorker with a dramatic survivor story. She has been featured in a documentary about her adventures and on Douglas Rushkoff's Team Human. She is on a mission to create social change by bringing people closer together and by helping fellow community members to tap into inner strength and to talk to each other over disagreements.
She has traveled the world, done academic research in Tibet, performed her music at the Moscow Conservatory, worked as a developer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield, written about technology, fought off a sex trafficker in China, survived an abusive marriage while maintaining her professional career, and even spent a month in immigration detention after being set up by her abusive ex-spouse (yes, she was able to successfully prove her case before the immigration judge, and she is currently a proud U.S. citizen).
In addition to that, Tessa has spent a few years in the newsroom working with some of the brightest indigenous writers in the country, as well as with some of the classiest people in the media.
Topics and program ideas:
- Domestic abuse and gender-based violence: what you need to know
- Tough and beautiful immigrant's journey
- Emotional intelligence: how to get there
- From grieving to happiness: respecting your own voice
- The art of dialogue is an emergency
- Responsible Innovation: progress, excitement, and bleeding noses
Featured / interviewed / quoted: @InsideEdition, @TeamHuman, @Univision, @ChicagoReader, @IndianCountryToday, and more.
Tessa Lena is a performing artist, a dialogue coach, and an immigrant New Yorker with a dramatic survivor story. She has been featured in a documentary about her adventures and on Douglas Rushkoff's Team Human. She is on a mission to create social change by bringing people closer together and by helping fellow community members to tap into inner strength and to talk to each other over disagreements.
She has traveled the world, done academic research in Tibet, performed her music at the Moscow Conservatory, worked as a developer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield, written about technology, fought off a sex trafficker in China, survived an abusive marriage while maintaining her professional career, and even spent a month in immigration detention after being set up by her abusive ex-spouse (yes, she was able to successfully prove her case before the immigration judge, and she is currently a proud U.S. citizen).
In addition to that, Tessa has spent a few years in the newsroom working with some of the brightest indigenous writers in the country, as well as with some of the classiest people in the media.
Topics and program ideas:
- Domestic abuse and gender-based violence: what you need to know
- Tough and beautiful immigrant's journey
- Emotional intelligence: how to get there
- From grieving to happiness: respecting your own voice
- The art of dialogue is an emergency
- Responsible Innovation: progress, excitement, and bleeding noses
Featured / interviewed / quoted: @InsideEdition, @TeamHuman, @Univision, @ChicagoReader, @IndianCountryToday, and more.
Fearless Dialogue Workshops
Overview:
- Fearless Dialogue Workshops last from one to three hours (depending on the size of the group). They are designed to unlock the participants' potential for intelligent, productive exchange rooted in self-respect and inner strength. The client has the option to select the topic of the workshop in advance.
Tone:
- Thoughtful and tailored toward the audience (I do read the room and adjust the tone...
Domestic Abuse Awareness for Colleges and Professional Organizations
Domestic or gender-based violence can happen to anybody: what you need to know.
Story:
- I experienced domestic abuse as a well-educated, professional woman-something that I had never expected, and was not prepared for. I have learned that nobody is immune to suddenly being on the receiving end of extreme cruelty. Through my presentation, I help young adults and professionals stop reacting to the feeling of embarrassment and start untangling the...
Success: How to Dance to the Beat of Your Own Drum and Be Successful YOUR Way
Overview:
- In our adolescence, we learn about the meaning of success from adults in our lives. But what we learn is not necessarily true, and it is not necessarily applicable to our unique personality. What we learn as kids is impacted by our mentors' traumas, their unfulfilled dreams, and their desire for us to be a better version of them, instead of the best possible version of ourselves.
- In my presentation, I will walk you through the...
Radical Happiness: How to Stop Lying to Yourself and Start Living
Let's face it, in an ideal world, motivational speaker industry is obsolete, and mentorship is an organic part of the community. But we don't live in an ideal world.
This top-tier, limited edition program is as real as it gets. We talk about the self-lies you need to unlearn, the social conditioning that is still in your way, and the kind of confidence that you didn't know you had.
This program is available as one-on-one coaching or intimate size group workshops...
