Winner of a 2007 Leadership Think Tank Award, a 2006 NAWBO Top Ten Women Business Owners Award, and an inductee of the Radio/ Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame, Connie advises leaders and sales executives on how to communicate best when attention, market share and money are on the line and outcomes are critical.

Organizations like Olympus, Apple, Moen, The Cleveland Clinic, Pacific Life, Rockwell Automation, American Greetings and KraftMaid turn to Connie to help them develop and deliver high profile communications for mergers and acquisitions, product launches, annual meetings, sales presentations, culture shifts, leadership development and media relations.

Connie draws on her wealth of experiences in the ruthless world of broadcast communication to fuel her research, programs and speeches. She spent more than twenty years as a television news anchorwoman and reporter and as host of America’s longest running television talk show, The Morning Exchange. She is a multiple Emmy© award-winning and Telly© award-winning journalist and represents more than 50 companies as a spokesperson, including Sealy, GE, American Greetings, Ernst and Young, Goodyear and Diebold automated teller machines.

Ms. Dieken is the author of the forthcoming 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 designed the innovative Make Things HappenTM 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.

Connie delivers ground-breaking communication insights through keynote addresses, coaching programs, leadership retreats, seminars, workshops and strategic plans based on her unique Connect-Convey-Convince® method which improves business performance and ensures that leaders conquer long-windedness, resistance and delays.

She is an active member of the National Speaker’s Association and recipient of its highest earned award, the Certified Speaking Professional, earned by less than 7 percent of speakers worldwide. Connie has also received wide-spread recognition for many charitable and civic projects.