“The powerful personality generates positive energy and creativity.” Buna Dahal. A dynamic employment trainer and motivational speaker, Buna Dahal, is an expert in teaching people how to think out of the box. She has demonstrated this ability by inspiring her clients to discover new, innovative, creative and empowering experiences. Buna is highly skilled in marketing persons with different abilities to the business world. In a staffing market where over 70% of the working-age blind and visually impaired remain unemployed, she has maintained an annual placement rate of over 85%. Buna has consistently achieved 100% placement with her work-experience and intern clients annually. While working as the Employment Specialist for the Colorado Center for the Blind she cultivated an average of 48 employer relations per year since 2000. She has successfully planned, organized and delivered a wide range of training sessions, workshops, seminars and job fairs both locally and nationally. Throughout her years of creating job-readiness curricula, networking events, and staff development programs, Buna has always focused on developing long-term relationships with the hiring authorities and prospective employers. She has well established relationships with Workforce Investment One-Stop Centers. Born and raised in Nepal, Buna has been Blind since birth. At 18 she was awarded a scholarship to study in the United States. At an early age Buna realized that she had a dream… not just to survive but to live. She had a desire to spread her wings because she knew there is much more in life than just existing. Today she fully lives her life with confidence and competence by inspiring others across the globe. The national and international media has published numerous articles and interviews touching upon her personal and professional success. In this respect her story was recently featured in CBS-Channel 4 Colorado, Morning News. Buna was invited to present an empowering speech at the United Nations in 2007. In 2006, when Buna went home to visit her family for the first time in 16 years, Nepal Television and Kantipoor Television interviewed her. For promoting literacy she was recognized as a community leader by the City of Littleton, Colorado during the 2004 National Library of the Month celebration. MSNBC hailed Buna Dahal as a “Young Inspirational Leader” in a nationally broadcast interview in 2000. Buna believes, “Retaining the job requires more creativity than obtaining a job.” Visit Buna's website and her blog at http://www.dynamicbuna.com.