Dianna Booher: Profile

Prolific Author
As author of more than 44 books, Dianna has published with Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books, Random House, Warner, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, and HarperCollins. Her latest books include Speak with Confidence!: Powerful Presentations That Inform, Inspire, and Persuade; E-WRITING: 21st-Century Tools for Effective Communication; Communicate with Confidence!; and Get a Life Without Sacrificing Your Career. Several have been major book club selections. Her work has been published in 20 foreign editions and is also widely available on audio, video, and online courseware (WBT and CBT).

Awards and Distinctions for Published Works

• Macmillan Executive Book Club Selection
• Fortune Book Club Selection
• Writer's Digest Book Club Selection
• Cindy Award
• New York Film Festival Finalist Award
• Newbridge Executive Program—Main Selection
• Business Week Book Club
• Book of the Month Club—Alternate Selection
• Money Book Club
• Executive Soundview Summaries: Best of the Best
• American Library Association: Best Non-Fiction Award

Recognized Communication & Productivity Expert
Dianna has been interviewed by Good Morning America, CNN, CNBC, USA Today, Washington Post, New York Newsday, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal Radio, National Public Radio, Bloomberg, Investors Business Daily, Fox Family Network, Reader's Digest, Working Woman, Industry Week, McCall's, Cosmopolitan, Success, Entrepreneur, among other national radio, TV, and newspapers.

Dianna holds a master's degree in English from the University of Houston.

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.

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.

Booher Consultants has received vendor-of-the-year awards from clients such as IBM and Frito-Lay for Boohers 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.

Dynamic Keynoter
Dianna's clients most often describe her and her programs this way: "High energy""So many practical ideas I can use immediately""Inspiringyou make me want to go out and do it now!"

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, Hallmark Cards, Air National Guard, Fujitsu, Maybelline, Lockheed Martin, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Air Liquide, Occidental Petroleum, and NASA, among many others.

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