About Drea
Drea Hemmer believes the smallest moments can create the greatest transformation.
Drea is the author of Intelligent Huddles, a Certified Conversational Intelligence® Coach, a business owner, and the Director of Leadership & Culture Development for a multi-location salon organization.
From her home base in Boise, Idaho, she develops leaders, facilitates workshops, coaches individuals and teams, and speaks to audiences about the conversations and daily practices that create high-performing human cultures.
From Personal Transformation to Practical Leadership
Drea’s work began with her own search for a more intentional life. In her early twenties, she recognized that constant motion and temporary highs could not give her the direction, meaning, or inner trust she wanted. That awareness began a lifelong practice of personal development, mindfulness, coaching, spiritual study, and conscious communication.
At the same time, Drea was learning to build businesses and lead people through the realities of rapid growth, economic disruption, conflict, uncertainty, and change. The inner work and the leadership work became inseparable.
Drea discovered that the quality of a leader’s internal state shapes the quality of their conversations, and the quality of those conversations shapes culture.
Leadership Practiced in the Real World
Drea opened her Boise salon in 2008 and has continued building a successful team-based business through seasons that tested both strategy and humanity. Today she leads leadership and culture development across nine salon locations while remaining closely connected to the daily realities leaders face.
Her frameworks are not created for ideal conditions. They are designed for mornings when the energy is low, standards have slipped, change is unpopular, communication has broken down, or a leader must create clarity without losing connection.
Drea’s Work Today
Through keynotes, workshops, leadership intensives, coaching, and Intelligent Huddles, Drea helps organizations create leaders who are more self-aware, conversations that build trust, meetings that matter, and cultures where people can contribute their best.