Founder of Mutual Motivation

Employee Experience Consultant

Wellness Trainer

Motivational Speaker

Dawn Helwig is an award winning sales and leadership executive and industry recognized employee engagement expert. 

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Her Experience

Dawn started her career at an entry level position and worked her way up to lead the employee engagement program of an entire division at a major global corporation, working directly with colleagues at all levels including C-suite executives. Her experience includes financial services, sales and operations, retail and corporate customer experience, employee engagement, and team and program management.

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Her Passion

People are Dawn’s passion. She understands the myriad of challenges and competing priorities that businesses face everyday and that at the heart of any organization are people, people who manage it, people who work it, and people who serve its customers. Dawn puts the people first and at the center of her work as she creates solutions for her clients.

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Her Dedication

For Dawn this is not a job, it’s her calling — to help individuals, teams, and organizations fulfill their potential and reach their goals. Each client is unique and deserves personalized attention and focus, and that is what Dawn brings. 

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Her Story

Dawn Helwig started her corporate career as a part-time bank teller and worked her way up to customer service manager. All the while, she became a fitness instructor and taught aerobics. Dawn strongly believed in the mind-body-spirit connection and would one day build this, along with other concepts, into an employee experience consultancy. 

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In the middle of a promising career in banking, Dawn chose to put everything on hold, even declined a promotion, to care for her elderly father who had fallen into medical, legal, and financial hardship. While caring for her father, she founded Mutual Motivation with three business clients who needed an employee engagement consultant. Word quickly spread about her work and Dawn began receiving requests from hospitals, nonprofits, credit unions, fire departments, and community groups. One of the requests came from a medical center serving cancer patients for whom Dawn authored a booklet of poems entitled “Hope of the Heart” to comfort and assist the survivors on their healing journey. 

 

Five years later, after her father passed and she had settled his affairs, Dawn resumed her corporate career while continuing her work through Mutual Motivation. She spent the next 20 years in corporate improving employee experience, customer care, and corporate culture at all levels of the organization. 

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Today, Dawn draws on her expertise in motivational speaking, employee experience, customer care, process improvement, mind-body wellness, and caregiving to take Mutual Motivation to her clients in all sectors — corporate, government, nonprofit, education, medical, community, and local businesses (for which she has a special affinity).