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About Dimple — Bio + Photos

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Dimple Dhabalia is a writer, podcaster, founder of Roots in the Clouds, and bestselling author of Tell Me My Story—Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self. Follow her @dimpstory across all social media platforms and on Substack at dear humanitarian.

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Dimple Dhabalia is a writer, podcaster and humanitarian on a personal mission of making service sustainable. Her first book, Tell Me My Story—Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self is available at all major online retailers.

Medium (100 words)

Dimple Dhabalia is a writer, podcaster, facilitator, and coach with over twenty years of front-line and management experience in the US government. In 2021 Dimple founded Roots in the Clouds, a boutique consulting firm specializing in using the power of story to heal organizational trauma and moral injury. Dimple is the best-selling author of Tell Me My Story—Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self which was excerpted by the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, CEO World Magazine, and the Federal News Network. Find her @dimpstory on social media and at dear humanitarian on Substack.

Longer Bio

Dimple D. Dhabalia is the founder of Roots in the Clouds, a human-centered leadership coach, and bestselling author with over twenty years of government and public service experience. Dimple partners with leaders across mission-driven sectors to address root issues of organizational trauma, and design inclusive, human-centered workplace cultures where emerging and seasoned leaders can learn how to preserve their own humanity as they work to preserve it for others.

After almost two decades working on the front lines 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 often failing to extend the same ethos of care 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 her government agency. Her vision and leadership earned her Director’s awards for Innovator of the Year and the Pillar of Leadership.

In 2021, Dimple left a two-decade career in government and humanitarian service to launch Roots in the Clouds with a personal mission of putting the “human” back into humanitarian work and making service sustainable across mission-driven sectors. Today, Dimple’s cutting-edge work uses the power of storytelling to help leaders and organizations heal and rebuild mission-driven cultures using a holistic, human-centered, and trauma-informed approach grounded in 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], was the #1 new release in workplace culture on Amazon, and was recently excerpted in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Dimple and her work have also been featured in a number of high-profile podcasts and media outlets including, Fast Company, CEO World Magazine, and the Federal News Network. 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? You can find Dimple @dimpstory across all social media platforms, and at dear HUMANitarian on Substack.

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About Tell Me My Story—Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self

At the heart of the word humanitarian is human.

The work of serving others never ends, and it demands a great deal from those who take it on—more than they have to give, if they’re not careful. But helping others shouldn’t come at the cost of one’s own health and well-being. And yet, years of putting mission needs before their own, coupled with the impact of a global pandemic, has left many humanitarians across mission-driven fields struggling to acknowledge their pain and serve others at the same time. It’s left them languishing, exhausted, stressed out, burned out, traumatized, morally injured, depressed, anxious, and facing a seemingly impossible choice:

Them or me?

Using moments from her own life and twenty-year humanitarian career, in Tell Me My Story Dimple D. Dhabalia invites humanitarians to consider how choosing a path of service may provide powerful opportunities to reveal and heal wounds at the individual and organizational levels, while embracing their humanity through the stories of the people they serve. Part memoir and part manifesto, Tell Me My Story is one leader’s message of hope and offers a map to healing for those doing humanitarian work. It’s also a reminder: This service and the people who do it are crucial to our world, and we must equip, empower, and encourage them to work as the best version of themselves–for themselves, for their loved ones, and for the people they serve.

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Tell Me My Story hit the bestseller list in two categories on Amazon (Workplace Culture and Work Life Balance in Business), has gotten great endorsements, and been extensively featured in the media.

Tell Me My Story: Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self | by Dimple Dhabalia

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Podcast Tour appearances: Check out the full list here.

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RETAILER LINKS TO BUY THE BOOK:

U.S.: Amazon // Barnes & Noble // Books a Million // Bookshop // IndieBound // Porchlight // Target

Canada: Amazon Canada

United Kingdom: Amazon UK // Watrstones

Australia: Booktopia

International: More information coming soon.

We can choose to serve without sacrificing ourselves by working together to rewrite the long-standing narrative of service before self and shift our collective expectations about what it means to be a humanitarian.

Service without sacrifice

is a story we must write together.

What people are saying . . .

“Tell Me My Story is a book for people and organizations who seek to make a difference in the world. Weaving poignant stories from her own life and work as a humanitarian, Dimple Dhabalia offers suggestions and practices for how people and organizations can shift their mindsets and create cultures of empathy. This book should be required reading for staff at institutions that serve communities around the world.”

- Deepa Iyer, author of Social Change Now:
A Guide for Reflection and Connection     

Tell Me My Story shares Dhabalia's unique experiences in finding a better way to live your life, while acknowledging, but living fully and healthily, exposure to both familial and workplace trauma. It is a must read book for all those who work in fields that expose them to the traumatic experiences of others (secondary trauma) or those who have lived through their own traumatic familial or life experiences. Dhabalia's insights help the reader find understanding of their own actions or reactions without guilt or judgment. She suggests a better way to live fully in the moment, while acknowledging trauma, than just surviving and working "through it." A book that should be given to each judicial officer who takes the bench and distributed to the judicial and probation staff in every courthouse to create a safe, caring workplace. Every public service lawyer, and their supervisors, should read this book.

- The Hon. Elizabeth Weishaupl,
Mediator/ Arbitrator/ Special Appointed Neutral

“Part story, part manifesto, Tell Me My Story is a fully moving account of what it means - and what is costs - to be a humanitarian. Dimple beautifully captures the experience of being called to do this work - and the sometimes heart-wrenching costs of that calling. In telling her story, she has told parts of all our stories. As the humanitarian aid sector continues to struggle with how to truly take care of its workforce, Dimple gives voice to the feelings that are often unspoken and shows us a way forward for ourselves and the organizations we work for.”

- Rebecca Dempster, Ph.D., Founder, Resileo

“Dhabalia has provided a heart-felt account of the joys, sorrows, challenges and triumphs of not only her life, but those whose lives she's touched or has been touched by during her years as a professional humanitarian. This is a must read—not only for those who dedicate their lives to helping others, but for all who have a story waiting to heal them as well.”

- Angela Bailey, Founder & CEO, Angela Bailey and Associates and Former Chief Human Capital Officer, Department of Homeland Security

"A much needed, deeply healing, and eminently practical salve for those called to the service of others living through some of the hardest moments and toughest circumstances. It's time to start helping the helpers, Tell Me My Story shows us the way."

- Jonathan Fields, Founder of Good Life Project® & bestselling author of SPARKED