Dianna Booher’s extensive and ongoing research and published works in the field of business communication and productivity serve as the foundation for Booher Consultants' training and consulting services.

Prolific Author
As author of more than 40 books, Dianna Booher has published with Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books, 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 13 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 Booher 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. She holds a master's degree in English from the University of Houston.

Consultant and CEO
Dianna Booher 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.

Dianna Booher Consultants has received vendor-of-the-year awards from clients such as IBM and Frito-Lay for Booher’s 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 Booher's clients most often describe her and her programs this way: "High energy"…"So many practical ideas I can use immediately"…"Inspiring—you make me want to go out and do it now!"

Dianna Booher 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 Booher has received the highest awards in the professional speaking industry, including induction into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame®. She holds the CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation held by fewer than 8% of the members of the National Speakers Association and 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!

Business and personal success begin with effective communication and personal productivity. As researcher and author of 39 books with major US publishers, Dianna Booher can help your audience achieve that success. Her more than 1,052 proven techniques and strategies will enable your audiences to communicate with impact, establish their credibility, build successful relationships at work and at home, improve their work habits, manage their deluge of information, and create a feeling of personal balance and meaning in their lives. Tell Dianna Booher your objectives for your audience, and she will work with you to select the specific, practical ideas most appropriate for your group.

What People Are Saying

"...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."
Oscar C. Gomez, Vice President-External Affairs - Verizon Communications Inc.

"I have received only the highest feedback from all of the participants. The material was right on target."
John Ogrizovich
Vice President, Information Systems & Services - ENSERCH Corporation

"The presentation went well and your book stimulated a lot of interest. People really seem to need to learn to slow down and balance their lives. You do wonderful work. It's helped me already!"
Lauren Teger, Regional Training Manager - Bell Atlantic NYNEX Mobile

"Your message was outstanding and very well received by our Financial Consultants."
Lawrence W. Forlenza, District Director, Mid-America District - Merrill Lynch

"Your presentation, The 10 Cs of Effective Communication, aligned perfectly with our Career Management System's development strategy. I appreciate your willingness to work with us and to get to know Principal Financial Group and particularly the IT community. And I really appreciated your flexibility and ability to adjust so quickly to the time allotment. Everyone I talked to has commented on your effectiveness in sharing a lot of information and yet still making it fun, entertaining and interactive."
John D. Carlson, Training and Performance Analyst - Senior - Principal Financial Group

"Dianna was terrific...she has a great speaking style, and uses humor to make her audience relax and listen."
Connie Spiros, Senior Vice President - Pioneer Investment Management, Inc.

"Enthusiastically presenting a subject that was felt by many to be 'old hat' was a tough challenge. But, your skills in relating effective business communications to today's needs gained you high marks of praise throughout American Capital."
Cynthia Robinson, Manager Organizational Development and Training - American Capital Companies