Dianna Booher works with organizations to increase their productivity and effectiveness through better oral, written, interpersonal, and cross-functional communication.
As a prolific author of 44 books (22 on communication), she has published with Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books, Warner, Random House, and McGraw-Hill. Her latest books include:
- Booher’s Rules of Business Grammar: 101 Fast and Easy Ways to Correct the Most Common Errors (November 2009 release)
- The Voice of Authority: 10 Communication Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know
- Speak with Confidence: Powerful Presentations That Inform, Inspire, and Persuade
- E-Writing: 21st-Century Tools for Effective Communication
- Communicate with Confidence: How to Say it Right the First Time and Every Time
- From Contact to Contract: 496 Proven Sales Tips to Generate More Leads, Close More Deals, Exceed Your Goals, and Make More Money
- Your Signature Work: Creating Excellence and Influencing Others at Work
Several have been major book club selections. Her work has been published in more than 30 foreign editions and is also widely available on audio, video, and online courseware.
Major Media: Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, CNBC, USA Today, The New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes.com, New York Newsday, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, NPR, Bloomberg, Investors Business Daily, Fox Family Network, Working Woman, Industry Week, McCall’s, Cosmopolitan, Success, and Entrepreneur have interviewed her for critical opinions on workplace communication.
CEO of Global Training Company: Booher trainers have taken Dianna’s communication principles and techniques to hundreds of organizations around the world. Programs offered by her firm include business and technical writing, proposal writing, presentation skills, customer service, interpersonal skills, resolving conflict, effective meetings, listening, and personal productivity.
National Award Winning Speaker: Dianna delivers very focused programs addressing clients’ specific communication issues as well as motivational keynotes on personal growth. She has spoken to corporate audiences on six continents.
Dianna has received the highest awards in the professional speaking industry, including induction into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame®. Additionally, Successful Meetings magazine named Dianna on its list of “21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century.” Executive Excellence Publishing recently named her as one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders” and one of the “Top 100 Minds on Personal Development.” IBM has honored her with its Star Quality Award.
Clients: Her clients include ExxonMobil, Merrill Lynch, Deloitte & Touche, PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, Texas Instruments, Lockheed Martin, Air National Guard, Bell Helicopter, BP, U.S. Army, Shell Oil, U.S. Senate, JCPenney, Hewlett Packard, NASA, US Forest Service, Fujitsu, ConocoPhillips, Bank of America, Siemens, J.P. Morgan Chase, Boeing, American Airlines, State Farm Insurance, Wal-Mart, Salomon Smith Barney, Hallmark, Sabre, Mary Kay, VHA, Northwestern Mutual. Principal Financial Group, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, among many others.
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Perfect for:
• Use a four-part model to think on your feet and build credibility during informal meetings and formal presentations
• Ensure that nonverbal communication supports rather than sabotages the message
• Organize ideas for greatest impact and clarity
• Build rapport with colleagues and customers
• Explore gender influences on conversational misunderstandings
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Dianna Booher works with organizations to increase their productivity and effectiveness through better oral, written, interpersonal, and cross-functional communication.
As a prolific author of 44 books (22 on communication), she has published with Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books, Warner, Random House, and McGraw-Hill. Her latest books include:
- Booher’s Rules of Business Grammar: 101 Fast and Easy Ways to Correct the Most Common Errors (November 2009 release)
- The Voice of Authority: 10 Communication Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know
- Speak with Confidence: Powerful Presentations That Inform, Inspire, and Persuade
- E-Writing: 21st-Century Tools for Effective Communication
- Communicate with Confidence: How to Say it Right the First Time and Every Time
- From Contact to Contract: 496 Proven Sales Tips to Generate More Leads, Close More Deals, Exceed Your Goals, and Make More Money
- Your Signature Work: Creating Excellence and Influencing Others at Work
Several have been major book club selections. Her work has been published in more than 30 foreign editions and is also widely available on audio, video, and online courseware.
Major Media: Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, CNBC, USA Today, The New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes.com, New York Newsday, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, NPR, Bloomberg, Investors Business Daily, Fox Family Network, Working Woman, Industry Week, McCall’s, Cosmopolitan, Success, and Entrepreneur have interviewed her for critical opinions on workplace communication.
CEO of Global Training Company: Booher trainers have taken Dianna’s communication principles and techniques to hundreds of organizations around the world. Programs offered by her firm include business and technical writing, proposal writing, presentation skills, customer service, interpersonal skills, resolving conflict, effective meetings, listening, and personal productivity.
National Award Winning Speaker: Dianna delivers very focused programs addressing clients’ specific communication issues as well as motivational keynotes on personal growth. She has spoken to corporate audiences on six continents.
Dianna has received the highest awards in the professional speaking industry, including induction into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame®. Additionally, Successful Meetings magazine named Dianna on its list of “21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century.” Executive Excellence Publishing recently named her as one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders” and one of the “Top 100 Minds on Personal Development.” IBM has honored her with its Star Quality Award.
Clients: Her clients include ExxonMobil, Merrill Lynch, Deloitte & Touche, PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, Texas Instruments, Lockheed Martin, Air National Guard, Bell Helicopter, BP, U.S. Army, Shell Oil, U.S. Senate, JCPenney, Hewlett Packard, NASA, US Forest Service, Fujitsu, ConocoPhillips, Bank of America, Siemens, J.P. Morgan Chase, Boeing, American Airlines, State Farm Insurance, Wal-Mart, Salomon Smith Barney, Hallmark, Sabre, Mary Kay, VHA, Northwestern Mutual. Principal Financial Group, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, among many others.
Creating Executive Presence
How do you handle someone who continually upstages you in a formal presentation setting? How do you respond to someone citing statistics and data with which you’re unfamiliar? How do you react when your boss changes the course of your presentation and budget discussion in midstream? Adding ‘the finishing touches’ will help you be yourself in front of an audience of 2 or 200. You’ll learn to think on your feet, handle tough questions and situations, and build rapport with the group—whatever its size.
The Gender Communication Gap
Miscommunication between genders can cause stress, strain relationships, generate mistrust, affect job performance, and in some cases, even result in lawsuits. Both entertaining and immediately useful, this dramatized presentation will help audiences understand how 22 basic differences in communication styles either hinder or improve these cross-gender relationships—with customers, coworkers, and teammates.
Communicate with Confidence
Dianna will share practical techniques for improving the quality of business and personal communications. This presentation will make audiences aware of how poor communication confuses people, creates stress, and destroys relationships at work and at home. Audiences will leave with specific techniques for communicating clearly, concisely, and credibly.
The 10 Cs of Effective Communication
Using analogies from popular movies, Dianna shares the new standards and guidelines for communicating across functional lines and outbound to stay competitive. Audience members will learn how to build a culture of trust and loyalty with coworkers and clients. The principles provide strategies for anyone who wants to communicate clear messages, increase credibility, and build stronger personal and work relationships.
Get a Life Without Sacrificing Your Career
Are you pedaling as fast as you can to stay up with the ever-increasing workload? Do you feel pulled in several directions? Is stress from work spilling over to your home life? And what about all the nice to-do’s that you never find time for at all? Dianna will present some practical ideas and pure inspiration for aligning your time with your values.
"..your message on how to improve the quality of our business and personal communications was right on target. Thanks again for your perfectly focused messages." — Verizon Communications Inc.
"Both of your presentations, 'Putting Together the Puzzle of Personal Excellence' and 'Get a Life,' were well received. Our overall program evaluations identified these presentations as the 'highlights' of the conference." — Committee Chairman, Association of Air Medical Services
"I have received only the highest feedback from all of the participants. The material was right on target." — Vice President IT Services, Waste Management, Inc.
"Your presentations... were extremely well received. On a scale from one to five, with one equaling poor and five equaling excellent, you received a score of 5.0 on both sessions from symposium attendees. We have had many speakers who cover the topics related to communications, but you by far had the most professional and entertaining (sessions), and your substance and impact were top-notch. We definitely plan to have you back on our program in the future..." — Director of Education and Communications, Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals in Business
