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Dianna Booher

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Communication Expert & Chief Executive of Booher Research Institute Author

Communication Expert & Chief Executive of Booher Research Institute Author

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Dianna Booher Biography

Dianna Booher is a communications expert and author. Booher is currently the chief executive of Booher Research Institute, a Texas-based company that offers communication consulting, executive coaching and publishing strategies for Fortune 500 organizations and nonprofit organization.

Her latest books include Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Strategically to Coach, Inspire, and Get Things Done, What More Can I Say? Why Communication Fails and What to Do About It and many more.

Booher has been interviewed by Good Morning America, CNN, USA Today, National Public Radio, Reader's Digest, Wall Street Journal Radio, Working Woman, New Woman, Industry Week, McCall's, Cosmopolitan, Success, Entrepreneur, Executive Excellence, Boardroom Reports, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Houston Chronicle, The Minneapolis Star, The Chicago Tribune, among other national radio, TV, and newspapers. Booher is a member of the Consummate Speakers Hall of fame having been named the 1997 Consummate Speaker of the Year by Sharing Ideas magazine. In addition, Successful Meetings magazine recently named Booher on its list of the 21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century!

Booher was formerly the President of Booher Consultants, Inc.The firm specialized in communication training for Fortune 500 organizations and government agencies since 1980. However, Booher Consultants was acquired by Communispond in 2017.

Booher holds a master's degree from the University of Houston. She holds the CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation held by fewer than 8 percent of the 3,700 plus members of the National Speakers Association. Booher is also a member of the prestigious Speakers Roundtable, 22 of the top speakers in the world. She is a speaker of both substance and style.

Dianna Booher Speaking Topics

  • Creating Executive Presence: Thinking on Your Feet in the C-Suite

    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 or client changes the course of your discussion in midstream? Adding “the finishing touches” will help you be yourself in front of a group of 3 or 300. You’ll learn to think on your feet, handle tough questions and situations, facilitate discussion among strong personalities, and build rapport with the group—whatever its size. Audiences will learn to—

    • Identify characteristics of executive presence
    • Use a four-part model to think on your feet and build credibility during informal meetings and formal presentations
    • Respond to 10 difficult question types with poise, credibility, and authority
    • Use gestures, space, and movement for highest impact
    • Ensure that nonverbal communication supports rather than sabotages the message

  • Talking to the Top Brass

    You need a strong personal presence and specific techniques to lead senior executives through difficult discussions to sound decisions. This program will help you identify and avoid pitfalls that surface with such groups and deliver a point persuasively. You’ll learn to structure your message well, give substantive responses to their toughest questions, recognize and avoid common annoyances with such high-level audiences, and add the finishing touches to make your points memorable. You’ll walk away from the session understanding the typical expectations of executive groups when you present recommendations, ideas, or information in meeting discussions, informal interactions, and formal presentations. Specifically, you will be able to—

    • Recognize 5 common irritants that surface when presenting ideas and recommendations to executives, and identify ways to avoid these pitfalls in informal or formal meetings and presentations.
    • Structure recommendations and presentations for the highest impact.
    • Think on your feet under pressure with poise and credibility.
    • Respond to questions clearly, concisely, and credibly.
    • Increase your influence and persuasiveness with 4 “finishing touches” to your content and method of delivery.

  • 10 Communication Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know

    With analogies and clips from classic movies, Dianna will provide ten guidelines for measuring your communication across functional lines and up and down the chain of command—both substance and style. These strategies will help you create trust and loyalty, increase credibility, and build stronger relationships with stakeholders. As a result of the session, you will walk away with guidelines for deciding what to communicate,… when to communicate,… and how to communicate strategic, routine, and sensitive messages. Audiences will learn to

    • Apply a four-part model for thinking on their feet to structure clear, concise messages—whether responses to questions in meetings, hallway interactions, or extemporaneous presentations
    • Assess their personal communication style to determine characteristics of personal credibility
    • Identify guidelines for giving bad-news messages

Dianna Booher Videos

  • Leadership Communication with Dianna Booher
  • Dianna Booher: Telling a Great Story
  • Dianna Booher on Creating Executive Presence

Dianna Booher Books

  • Communicate Like A Leader: Connecting Strategically To Coach, Inspire, And Get Things Done
    Communicate Like A Leader: Connecting Strategically To Coach, Inspire, And Get Things Done
  • Faster, Fewer, Better Emails: Manage the Volume, Reduce the Stress, Love the Results
    Faster, Fewer, Better Emails: Manage the Volume, Reduce the Stress, Love the Results
  • Credit and Collection Letters:Model Letters and Guidelines for Dealing with Credit Issues and Collecting Your Money
    Credit and Collection Letters:Model Letters and Guidelines for Dealing with Credit Issues and Collecting Your Money
  • Booher's Rules of Business Grammar: 101 Fast and Easy Ways to Correct the Most Common Errors
    Booher's Rules of Business Grammar: 101 Fast and Easy Ways to Correct the Most Common Errors
  • The Esther Effect: Seven Secrets Of Self-confidence And Influence
    The Esther Effect: Seven Secrets Of Self-confidence And Influence
  • Speak With Confidence : Powerful Presentations That Inform, Inspire and Persuade
    Speak With Confidence : Powerful Presentations That Inform, Inspire and Persuade

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Dianna Booher is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Creating Executive Presence: Thinking on Your Feet in the C-Suite, Talking to the Top Brass and 10 Communication Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know. The estimated speaking fee range to book Dianna Booher for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Dianna Booher generally travels from TX, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Amanda Gore, Mimi Donaldson, Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE, Dr. Jackie Freiberg and Laura Stack. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Dianna Booher for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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