Dianna Booher works with organizations to help them communicate clearly and with individuals to increase their influence and impact by a strong executive presence.

She is the bestselling author of 47 books, published in 60 foreign-language editions. Her latest books include these:

--Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Strategically to Coach, Inspire, and Get Things Done (Berrett-Koehler)

--What MORE Can I Say: Why Communication Fails and What to Do About It (Penguin Random House)

--Creating Personal Presence: Look, Talk, Think, and Act Like a Leader (Berrett-Koehler)

--Communicate With Confidence: How to Say It Right the First Time and Every Time (McGraw-Hill)

National media such as Good Morning America, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Forbes.com, Fast Company, CNN International.com, NPR, Bloomberg, Success, and Entrepreneur have interviewed her for opinions on critical workplace communication issues.

She’s the founder of two communication training companies: Booher Consultants and currently CEO of Booher Research Institute.

Dianna has been earned some of the highest awards and distinctions in the speaking, human capital, and publishing industries:

  • Speaker Hall of Fame  (induction by the National Speakers Association)
  • “21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century” by Successful Meetings magazine
  • “Top Leadership 500” by Leadership Excellence magazine
  • “Top 100 Minds on Personal Development” by Personal Excellence magazine
  •  “Top 30 Global Communication Gurus”
  • “Top 100 Thought Leaders in America” by Leadership Excellence magazine
  • “Best of the Best: Top 25 Business Books of the Decade” by Executive Soundview Summaries
  • Richtopia's 2017 "Top 200 Most Influential Authors in the World"

Clients include IBM, ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Pepsico, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, JPMorgan Chase, Department of the Navy, NASA, and more than one-third of the Fortune 500. She has spoken at international conferences on six continents.

 www.BooherResearch.com  817-283-2333.

Inclusive Conversations

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Subtle Acts of Exclusion

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The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety

This book is the first practical, hands-on guide that shows how leaders can build psychological safety in their organizat...

Diversity Beyond Lip Service

"La’Wana Harris has opened this coach’s eyes to the power of coaching practices to create new paths for diversity and inc...

7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change

Change is difficult but essential—Esther Derby offers seven guidelines for change by attraction, an approach that draws p...

Dig Your Heels In

Sought-after speaker and consultant Joan Kuhl arms young women with the tools they need to transform male-dominated corpo...

Compassionate Counterterrorism

Islamist terrorism is not about religion, says Leena Al Olaimy, an Arab Muslim, Dalai Lama Fellow, and social entrepreneu...

Networking for People Who Hate Networking

Most books for people who would rather get a root canal than face a roomful of strangers tell readers how to fight agains...

The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up

“This is a must-read for bosses and subordinates alike, as it exposes our flaws but teaches us how we can work together t...

Bedtime Stories for Managers

In forty-two succinct, surprising essays, legendary scholar Henry Mintzberg brings management down from the clouds and on...

The Critical Few

Without a deep understanding of your company’s culture, any change effort you undertake will fail. Bestselling author Jon...

The Law of Small Things

We are living in a time when dishonesty and duplicity are becoming commonplace. Each of us can fight this cultural corrup...

The Future of Packaging

Tom Szaky sets out to do the impossible – eliminate all waste. This book paints a future of a “circular economy” that rel...

Citizen Capitalism

Top Cornell law professor Lynn Stout and her coauthors Tamara Belinfanti and Sergio Gramitto offer a visionary but practi...

The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management

Veteran project manager and University of California professor Zachary Wong identifies the eight most common people probl...

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

The new edition of a bestselling classic, Help Them or Grow Watch Them Grow offers advice on talent retention for the mod...

Programs

Communicating strategically or still “putting out fires”?
Need to increase your influence so you can move people to action?
Are your sales proposals persuasive or merely informative?
Do emails dump information without getting action?
Do your sales professionals ramble in the C-suite?
Do your meetings solve problems–or merely waste time?
Would you like to increase the impact of customer communication?
Would you like to get more mindshare for your social media?
Could your career stand a boost from writing a bestselling book?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, Dianna Booher can help.

Dianna Booher’s Most Requested Programs

Executive Presence to the Power of C™
Audiences will identify concrete characteristics that set them apart as influencers in the C-suite. They’ll learn to think on their feet, structure a message for executives, and pay attention to body language so that it supports rather than sabotages their message. 

Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Strategically to Coach, Inspire, and Get Things Done
People often get promoted from supervisor to manager or from manager to senior executive with brilliant technical skills but without the accompanying leadership and communication skills for the job. As a result, these bosses get stuck in micromanagement mode. Dianna Booher, bestselling author of Communicate Like a Leader, helps leaders prevent micromanagement before it happens. 

What MORE Can I Say? Communication Strategies for Leaders
Need to get a point across quickly, expand influence, persuade others to change their mind or behavior? Audience members will walk with guidelines for moving people to action. Thus, they’ll avoid common pitfalls that lead to lost productivity, low morale, and lower profits! This interactive program shows you how to analyze your own communication snafus and provides persuasive techniques and new habits for future success. 

Get a Life Without Sacrificing Your Career
Do you remember leisure time fondly—when there was actually time to “stop and smell the roses” and evaluate what was really worth doing? In this fast-paced, information-overloaded world, professionals don’t need another session or sage to tell them how to add more activities into their already packed schedule. Instead, they need to discover ways to decompress—at both work and home. 

Your Signature Life: Creating the Life You Want
What if we all lived our daily lives in such a way that we would be proud to add our signature to it at the end of the day–just as the artist, novelist, or clothing designer signs a finished piece of work? You are the designer of your life—architect of your work life, writer of your life’s story, the creator of your character. As you work on creating this masterpiece called your life, you’ll want to be able to say you’ve done your personal best so that you can sign your name to what you have lived. 

Get Your Book Published to Promote Your Career and Build Credibility
Credibility, prestige, leads, new business, money, name recognition, branding—all are reasonable to expect as a result of publishing and promoting your book with a major publisher. Have you been promising to write a bestselling book “someday”? Well, this is your opportunity to turn your writing from bland to bold? Now that technology has made writing books, ebooks, white papers, and articles so easy, publishing has become the new pastime for everyone from soccer moms to systems analysts. So what’s the next step to distinguish yourself in the field? 

Writing a Quality Book Quickly
Both seasoned and inexperienced authors find themselves grappling from time to time with competing ideas, hectic schedules, distractions, and short attention spans—all of which complicate getting ideas from brain to bookstore. Audience members in this session will walk away with a 12-step, repeatable process for writing a quality book quickly—in 7-21 days. 

  • IBM
  • ExxonMobil
  • Chevron
  • BP
  • US Navy
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Raytheon
  • Lucile Children’s Hospital at Stanford University
  • Novartis
  • PharMerica

$15,000 Keynote
$15,000 Keynote and Breakout
$15,000 All day

"Great leaders are great communicators, as Dianna Booher points out in this smart, useful book. If you want to become a top-notch strategic communicator, you’d do well to heed the advice in its pages."  -- Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach, business educator and New York Times-bestselling author, ranked the number one leadership thinker in the world by Thinkers50

"When you read Communicate Like a Leader, you’ll learn strategic communication skills that will improve your relationship with your people and actually make leading easier. Dianna Booher is the communication guru of the 21st century!"  -- Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The New One Minute Manager(R) and One Minute Mentoring

"Everything they didn’t teach you at Harvard Business School –but should have — about leadership communication in the real world of work.  -- John Addison, Best-Selling Author, Leadership Editor of SUCCESS Magazine and CEO of Addison Leadership Group

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