Connie Dieken Motivational Speaker, Author and Media Expert

Connie Dieken - Biography

Connie Dieken is a multiple Emmy© award-winning journalist and Telly© award-winning spokesperson.  

Connie Dieken is a business communication authority who helps leaders conquer resistance, delays and long-windedness in today's world of short attention spans.   Winner of a 2007 Leadership Ohio Think Tank Award and a 2006 NAWBO Top Ten Women Business Owners Award, Connie advises leaders, emerging leaders and sales executives on how to communicate in a world driven by instant addicts.    

Organizations like Olympus , Apple, Moen, The Cleveland Clinic, Pacific Life, Rockwell Automation, and KraftMaid turn to Connie to guide them to be more successful in their communications. She develops and delivers keynote addresses, strategic plans, communication coaching programs, and workshops to ensure leaders inspire commitment and move others to action.  

She guides leaders to shine in high profile communications such as annual meetings, board meetings, analysts' presentations, product launches, mergers and acquisitions, and media relations.  She also helps sales teams boost their success by ensuring that their interaction and presentation skills are crisp and influential with target audiences.    

Ms. Dieken is the author of the book You Lost Me at Hello:  How to Talk to a World of Short Attention Spans.  She has also co-authored 4 books: Communicate Clearly, Confidently & Credibly and the 303 Solutions book series.  She is an inductee of the Radio & Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame.  She designed the innovative Make Things Happen communication system and her work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Crain's Business, The Chicago Tribune, Women's Day, ABC and in dozens of publications across the country. Degreed in Telecommunications from Indiana University , Connie delivers Executive Education courses through the Kelley School of Business at I.U., and has taught communication skills at Corporate College and presentation skills at Kent State University .  

Connie draws on her wealth of experiences in the ruthless world of broadcast communication to fuel her research, programs and speeches. She is one of the few women inducted into the Radio & Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame©. She spent more than twenty years as a television news anchorwoman and reporter in New York , Nashville and Cleveland and as host of The Morning Exchange television talk show. She is a multiple Emmy© award-winning journalist and Telly© award-winning spokesperson.  

One of the country's most respected communicators, Connie is a spokesperson for more than 50 corporations nationwide, including Sealy, GE, Invacare, American Greetings, Ernst and Young, Goodyear, Giant Eagle and Diebold automated teller machines.  

Connie Dieken is an active member of the National Speaker's Association and recipient of its highest award, the CSP.  She has received wide-spread recognition for many charitable and civic projects. As a parent of two teenagers, she skillfully balances family life with the hectic demands of a burgeoning business.