Van Lai-DuMone
Founder & CEO
worksmart Advantage

Van Lai-DuMone is a keynote speaker, author, and founder of worksmart Advantage, a leadership and team development consultancy specializing in Creative Leadership and Creative Problem Solving. She helps organizations transform culture and performance by unlocking the creativity within individuals and teams. 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.