Diane Sieg

Although I literally help put people back together working 23 years in emergency rooms across the country, my passion has always been to help people breakthrough before they break down. I have been involved in the health and fitness field for over 30 years as a life coach and fitness instructor teaching everything from kick-boxing and weight management to risk factor modification and cycling.

When I left the emergency room, I wanted to help healthcare providers, especially nurses take care of themselves. My first book, STOP Living Life Like an EMERGENCY! Rescue Strategies for the Overworked and Overwhelmed, was a huge success and led me to speak to thousands of healthcare providers at national conferences, association meetings, and individual hospitals.

Being a recovering adrenaline junkie myself, I found the practice of mindfulness and yoga to be healing for me during a painful divorce and wanted to bring it to healthcare. I wrote my second book, 30 Days to Grace; A Daily Practice to Achieve Your Ultimate Goals and created the 30 Day Mindfulness Challenge.

Today, as a speaker, author, life coach, nurse, and yoga teacher, I bring resilience skills to healthcare organizations in a variety of ways with The Resilience Academy, 30 day mindfulness challenges, national and international leadership and mindfulness retreats, keynotes, half-day and full-day seminars, webinars and coaching.

I live in beautiful Denver, Colorado with my beloved partner, Neil and golden retriever, Gabriel where we all enjoy hiking, biking, gardening, snowshoeing, and our beautiful grandchildren!

7 Habits of Highly Resilient Nurses

Up to 80% of healthcare providers today report signs and symptoms of burnout, suffering from physical, emotional, or mental exhaustion, undermining motivation and leaving a sense of hopelessness. While stress is characterized by over-engagement, burnout is characterized by disengagement.

The challenges in healthcare today require an intervention and resilience is the intervention. Resilience is not a one-time event, it is our thoughts, feelings, and attitude and determines how we show up every day. It is a skill that can be learned.

Chaos to Calm: Leading in Challenging Times!

What do Google, General Mills, Target, Apple, Nike, and Procter & Gamble all have in common? They have engaged their leaders in mindfulness and found it improves productivity, performance, and overall quality of life, both at home and work.

Mindfulness is one resilience skill that cultivates the same qualities that support you to lead with excellence which include focus, clarity, vision and creativity. In this interactive session you will gain an understanding of leadership presence and other resilience skills and how to cultivate them every day in your work and life.

This program is designed for all levels of leadership and aspiring leaders in healthcare.

STOP Living Life Like an EMERGENCY!

These are challenging times in healthcare with all the change, uncertainty, and complexity. Burnout is at an all-time high when everything feels like an emergency!

Using real-life stories from her 23 years as an emergency room nurse, speaker, author, life coach and yoga teacher, Diane will show you how to get out of the emergency room of life by using practical resilience skills that change your mind and train your brain to experience life a whole different way.

Diane was a BIG HIT as the Keynote Speaker at our Annual Case Management Conference in July! As a group of over 300 Registered Nurse and Social Work Case Managers, we are so busy caring for others, it is often difficult to take the time to care for ourselves. Diane was the perfect reminder to all of us to “stop living life like an emergency!” Numerous attendees personally relayed to me they felt Diane was speaking directly to them and the message was much needed. It was so rewarding to hear Diane’s time with us sincerely helped many attendees identify the need for change in their own lives and she even provided the tools to aide in taking that first step. Diane was also was a great pleasure to work with while coordinating her speaking arrangements for our organization. She was professional, kind, and thoughtful of our conference attendee’s needs every step of the way. I would highly recommend Diane for any speaking engagements, especially for any group needing a reminder to pause, re-focus, and incorporate the practice of mindfulness into their daily lives! — President, American Case Management Association, Northern California

Diane was one of the most professional and dynamic keynote speakers we have ever had the pleasure of working with. Her upbeat message resonated strongly with our attendees because it was tailored directly to their daily stresses and workload. Diane was able to walk that fine line of being both energetic and calming, which kept the entire audience engaged from beginning to end. Her closing keynote was the perfect way to end the conference with such a motivational message! — Corporate Accounts and Project Manager, IAHCSMM

Diane was superb as a recent keynote speaker for the Denver Network of Executive Women's Learning Event. Her talk was focused on challenging the group to add a new leadership skill to their toolbox--developing a practice of mindfulness. She demystified the concept for many who weren't familiar with the benefits to their business practices and she gave everyone some simple tools to recharge, de-stress and refocus their goals and objectives. Diane is entertaining and enjoyable to listen to. I highly recommend her. — President, Network of Executive Women Denver