Van Lai-DuMone

Van is creative keynote speaker and CEO of worksmart advantage, helping organizations unlock innovation and improve leadership skills through curiosity and creatively-driven strategies. She empowers leaders and teams to think differently, embrace experimentation, and turn bold ideas into action through her unique Creative Integration™ methodologies; which means get ready to have fun, play, and create together as we learn that creativity is not a nice-to-have, but in fact a strategic problem-solving tool. 

Van’s book, What if Pigs Can Fly? A Practical Guide to Follow Your Curiosities, tells the story of how her mother and 19 Vietnamese refugee women—guided by curiosity—trailblazed the now $8.3 billion U.S. manicure industry; and provides a framework for readers to follow their own curiosities to turn seemingly impossible ideas into real-world possibilities.