Dianna Booher

Biography

Dianna is a high-caliber keynote speaker who captivates, motivates, and inspires audiences around the world. She delivers very focused programs addressing clients' specific communication issues as well as motivational and inspirational topics such as personal productivity or life and career balance.

Dianna has received the highest awards in the professional speaking industry, including induction into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame®. She is a member of the Speakers Roundtable (18 of the top speakers in the world). Additionally, Successful Meetings magazine named Dianna on its list of 21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century!

Her clients include IBM, MCI, American Airlines, ExxonMobil, Nokia, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, U.S. Senate, Boeing, Sabre, Verizon, U.S. Army, PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, Merrill Lynch, JCPenney, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Deloitte & Touche, Morgan Stanley, Hallmark Cards, Air National Guard, Fujitsu, Maybelline, Lockheed Martin, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Air Liquide, Occidental Petroleum, and NASA, among many others.

Consultant and CEO
Dianna first began to lead organizations to increase their productivity through effective communication in 1980 when she founded Booher Consultants. Since then, Booher trainers have taken Dianna's communication principles and techniques to hundreds of organizations around the world—on all six continents.

Booher Consultants has received vendor-of-the-year awards from clients such as IBM and Frito-Lay for Booher’s overall impact on the organization.

As course designer, Dianna Booher has been selected to present her programs and techniques at numerous annual conventions of the world's largest corporate training association, American Society for Training and Development. Her training principles have achieved major international recognition during the past 23 years.

Publications

Say The Right Thing-In Any Business or Social Situation! Each year thousands of executives pack Dianna Booher's seminars to learn to express themselves more clearly and confidently at work and at play. Now this master communicator has distilled over 600 of her proven speaking and listening tips into a single fast-access primer-one that can help you think on your feet, organize your ideas for impact, build credibility and loyalty, and instantly answer questions from customers... bosses... coworkers... even your spouse! With Communicate With Confidence You'll develop the skill to: win people over to your ideas; hold your own in meetings; give-and get-advice; say "No" without hurt feelings; criticize without crippling; resolve conflicts without blows; respond to insults and abuse; talk across gender line-and more!

Titles

Communication: From Boardroom to Bedroom
The Gender Communication Gap
The 10 Cs of Communication
Get a Life: Hot to Find Time for Important Things Without Sacrificing Your Career
You Are Your Future: Putting together the Puzzle of Personal Excellence
Ten Smart Moves for Women
Communicating CARE to Customers
Selling Across Gender Lines
Write This Way to Success
Platform Tips for the Presenter
Managing Information Overload
to the Point Email and Voice Mail
Listening Until You really Hear
Leading and Participating in Effective Meetings
Resolving conflict without Punching Someone Out