Diane Marie Pisera, MBA 🍋

I focus on identity, habits, and self leadership, particularly how standards, discipline, and structure shape long term outcomes.

Growing up in an immigrant household influenced how I approach responsibility and decision making. I learned early the value of restraint, consistency, and thinking beyond the short term. For a long time, that translated into staying contained, capable, observant, and steady, but often behind the scenes.

Over time, I came to understand that leadership does not begin with confidence.
It begins with clear decisions and consistent action.

That insight reshaped how I approach my work, habits, and sense of direction. Supported by formal training as a certified coach, I continue to study how identity, standards, and discipline influence behavior, growth, and self leadership over time.

My approach is grounded, intentional, and non performative, centered on clarity, consistency, and long term thinking rather than visibility or hype.

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For years, I poured my expertise into employer brands, then my own business - never realizing I was building equity I couldn't keep.

Speaking appearances, market share, board positions, and strategic partnerships kept going to leaders who'd built reputations beyond their company walls.

That's when I understood: You can spend your entire career building equity you don't own. 

Trapped in company brands you'll eventually exit. 
Sharing insights under someone else's name. 
Absent from rooms where your voice belongs.

So I transformed how I showed up - not through trendy visibility tactics, but by building a personal brand that furthered my life's work, not just my next quarter.

Today, I guide accomplished leaders in building the strategic personal brand foundation that transforms expertise into influence, income, and industry standing. My work serves as the mirror that helps leaders claim their inherent greatness, then architects the strategy that ensures the world sees it too.


CLIENT OUTCOMES //
Fortune 500 partnerships. Board positions. International keynote stages. National press in the New York Times, Business Insider, Food + Wine and more. Collaborations with Netflix. Appearances at SXSW and NY Fashion Week.


ADVISORY OFFERINGS // 
🔸  1:1 Advisory (personal brand strategy + leadership development)
🔸  Corporate Workshops (executive team visibility)
🔸  Speaking Engagements


LET'S CONNECT //
📍 thenicolehart.com
📱 @thenicolehart
🎙️ Podcast launching Q1 2026


When you're ready to build a legacy in your name, let's talk.

Nicole Hart

I could barely afford my Uber to the event in LA.

4 years into building Hart Brand Studio.
  $20 in my business account.
  $20,000 in credit card debt.
  $19,000 on a line of credit.
  $14,000 owed in taxes.

Panic. Imposter syndrome.

I remember sitting in the back seat thinking, "Maybe it’ll be better tomorrow."

Not confident. Not hopeful. Just… not ready to quit today.

I told myself I’d give it a year.

When people asked what I was doing:
 “I’m building an agency and advisory practice entirely for personal branding.”

The responses weren’t encouraging.
 “What does that mean?”
 “Have you thought about getting a job?”
 “Well… at least you tried.”

So I just kept moving. Twelve months of showing up one day at a time.

And things started to shift.
  Debt paid down.
  Revenue back up.
  Paid keynotes, podcasts, partnerships, press.

Maybe it was optimism. Maybe it was straight-up delusion.

But I'm so glad I agreed to just one more day.

Nicole Hart 🧡

I built the wrong podcast.

Six months ago, I set out to create a show called The Haven. I imagined it as a harbor for ambitious women -- a place to exhale, process, and find stillness between the big moves.

Then I started recording. 

And *every single* conversation revealed something I hadn't anticipated.

👉 These women weren't looking for a harbor. They were looking for confirmation that they weren't alone in the constant motion.

CEOs still learning how to lead. Wildly successful founders working on how to show up better in their relationships. Women building something incredible while quietly becoming someone new.

Sometimes they wanted rest from the endless evolution. 

From never feeling "done."

But they also knew that constantly becoming is what makes them powerful.

I heard stories about fundraising for ideas no one understood -- and breaking industries wide open. About building seven-figure agencies just to tear them down for more peace. About divorce, motherhood, keeping the lights on while keeping themselves intact.

So the podcast needed a new name.

The Art of Becoming is for accomplished women who know that growth isn't a phase you complete. It's about staying in the arena while everything keeps shifting. Pursuing your next chapter without abandoning who you are in this one.

Because becoming isn't a chapter to manage.

It's the whole point.

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Launching Q1. Stay close. https://lnkd.in/eTM5k8bw

The invitation landed in my inbox and I said yes before I finished reading it.

Leading a personal brand course for the BONDE community. But before I could even think about the session, I was thinking about the room.

I joined BONDE during a *brutal* stretch. A year into pivoting my entire business toward personal brand work. 

Vision out in the world, results nowhere in sight. 

The kind of season where you question everything quietly and pretend you're fine publicly.

I was so tired of pretending. Every other room I'd been in felt like a performance. Smile fixed, struggles hidden, acting like I had it together when I absolutely did not.

BONDE never asked me to perform.

The women in this community just welcomed me -- mid-pivot, mid-doubt, mid-becoming. Sharp and generous and completely uninterested in pretense.

Being around their excellence reminded me why I do this work. There are people whose kindness, greatness, and brilliance deserve far more space -- and they're often just one mindset shift or strategy away from recognition that changes everything.

So when this invitation came to help them claim it, it wasn't a decision. It was a full circle moment.

Five years in business until I found my people. 

And now I get to help them be found too.

Meg Gold and Parnian Emami -- thank you for building the room that didn't need me to be finished. 🤍

I did the thing.

Looked at someone else's content and spiraled.

Compared her posts to mine. Her aesthetic. Her engagement. Her seemingly effortless consistency.

I wondered if I should change my approach. Shift my visuals. Try her formula.

Then I caught myself.

🚫 Her lens could never be mine. And mine could never be hers.

We've lived different lives. Built different things. See the world through completely different filters.

That's not a limitation -- it's the whole damn point.

So I closed the tab. And got back to work in my own lane.

The comparison spiral is seductive. It disguises itself as "research" or "inspiration."

But it's usually just distraction dressed up as strategy.

Your only job is to become more of what makes you distinct -- not a diluted version of someone else's persona.

Stay in your lane. It's the only one that leads somewhere worth going.

***

🎯 Join my free personal brand session this Wednesday, January 14th: "From Hidden Expert to Visible Authority: Your 2026 Evolution" https://lnkd.in/gqThrW5F?

This week, someone in my webinar asked: "How do I show up differently without seeming like I'm shape-shifting?"

I lovedddd this question because here's what they're really asking: 

🫣 Can I evolve and still be trusted?

Yes. Absolutely yes.

Your audience doesn't fall in love with one static version of you. 

They fall in love with *watching you become.*

Show them different facets. Different phases. Let them see you figuring it out. That's not confusing -- that's what makes them feel a part of what you're building.

Evolution isn't shape-shifting. It's leadership.

Let them see you grow. That creates more connection than perfection ever could. 

*** 

Didn't catch the live session of my Personal Brand Webinar? Request the replay. https://lnkd.in/dNKiw82C

20+ leaders showed up to yesterday's free session. And one moment hit different.

I said: "The problem isn't your expertise. The problem is being great at what you do -- and not being known for it."

The chat exploded. I watched heads nodding through the screen.

Being exceptional behind closed doors feels great, until new ones need opening. 

New partnerships. 
New visibility. 
New press features. 
New prospects. 

Being great at what you do is the first chapter. Being known for it is the next one.

It's not a character flaw. It's a gap. And it's one most high-achievers don't realize exists until they're deep in it.

And that second chapter? Totally learnable. 

That's what this work is all about.

***

To everyone who showed up live yesterday -- thank you. The questions you asked, the moments you shared in the chat, the energy you brought. It reminded me why I do this. 

Missed the session? Request the replay here. https://lnkd.in/dNKiw82C

Meg Gold April Obersteller Nicole Guilmartin Nicole Bekerian Pascha Apter Kate Richter Green Waridibo (Wari) A. Jess Santini Meghan Beaupre (She/Her) Morgan Cooper Lauren Kershner Saadia Hameduddin, MBA Meredith Stone Giesta Csilla Martin-Arujo, MBA Kristin Sosanie Kristen Larrea Sara Guizzo

I was raised to always be the bigger person. 
Don't make waves.

Sometimes, that advice has served me well. It protects my energy and my peace.

But there are times like these where it doesn't serve me well at all.

I tried to write about personal branding today -- business as usual -- and it felt so trivial.

I don't want to talk about raising the recognition of one voice.

I want to talk about raising the recognition of many voices.
Because lately, that's what we've needed.

If you've been quiet because you're not sure what to say or how to say it, or like me, you were taught that nice people don't make waves -- 

Pick your place, moment or conversation and say something.

Silence has never been neutral.

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