Diane Sieg

Diane Sieg teaches the resilience skills needed to cope with burnout, stress, and disengagement, helping healthcare workers restore joy, meaning, and connection to their noble work.

Expert on

  • Time Management/Self-Management
  • Resilience
  • Healthcare
  • Motivation
  • Lifestyle
  • Stress

Fee Range

$7,500–$15,000

Travels from

CO, US

Biography

Creator of the Resilience Academy, Diane Sieg spent 23 years working as an ER nurse in hospitals across the country. Today, as a resilience speaker, author, coach, and champion, Diane teaches healthcare organizations how to create resilient cultures through her keynotes, half-day or full-day seminars, resilience challenges, retreats, and coaching at the individual, department, and organizational level. She is the author of two books, STOP Living Life Like an Emergency! Rescue Strategies for the Overworked and Overwhelmed and 30 Days to Grace; A Daily Practice to Achieve Your Ultimate Goals. There is always chaos in healthcare and resilience is the teachable, effective, game-changing antidote. Diane teaches the resilience skills needed to cope with burnout, stress, and disengagement, helping healthcare workers restore joy, meaning, and connection to their noble work.

Speaker Videos

LEADING WITH RESILIENCE IN CHALLENGING TIMES

With record-high rates of burnout, turnover, and disengagement in healthcare, these challenging times require resiliency more than ever –and it starts with leadership. Learning to incorporate and model key resilience practices such as compassion, engagement, and self-leadership, the resilient leader becomes the key to a culture shift that results in less burnout, greater retention, and restoration of the joy, meaning, and purpose in work. This kind of re-engagement transforms people into better caregivers and better colleagues, which directly translates to improved patient quality surveys and an improved bottom line. The critical resilience skills taught can be immediately applied and taken back to staff to help create and sustain a resilient culture at the unit, department, and organizational level.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define resilience and the critical role it plays in healthcare leadership
  • Differentiate resilient and resistant leadership
  • Identify and experience 3 resilience skills
  • Participate in a follow-up Resilience Challenge

Diane far exceeded our expectations! I have never before witnessed a more enthusiastic, engaged audience at 7:30 am. The conference was so powerful that senior leadership is including a hospital-wide resilience program in our objectives next year.

CHAOS TO CALM WITH RESILIENCE

Chaos in healthcare today impacts all healthcare workers. While we can’t do anything about the current healthcare crisis, there are teachable skills that can keep you focused, productive, and resilient by being calmer in the face of chaos. Without resilience, people become overwhelmed, make more mistakes, take longer to do things, and become physically and emotionally exhausted –all expensive in human and financial costs. Chaos to Calm teaches specific, practical skills such as mindfulness, compassion, and self-leadership to handle chaos so that even in the middle of the storm we can remain engaged and resilient.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define resilience and the critical role it plays in today’s healthcare provider
  • Differentiate resilience and resistance
  • Identify and experience 3 resilience skills
  • Participate in a follow-up Resilience Challenge

One of our planning committee members heard Diane speak at a recent AORN Global Conference and highly recommended we bring her in, and she did not disappoint! Her program was high energy, engaging, and provided great take-away resilience skills.

SELF-LEADERSHIP IN A PANDEMIC (AND EVERY OTHER CRISIS)

The current crisis in healthcare exposes all of our vulnerabilities, requiring us to slow down, evaluate, and improve our systems professionally and personally. Powerful, effective leadership is needed today more than ever, and the most effective leaders know how to lead themselves first. By practicing self-leadership, they empower their colleagues, teams, and organizations which is critical during times of crisis. Self-leadership is a unique set of skills and behaviors that include trust, transparency, compassion, connection, and vulnerability. Regardless of your title or experience, role modeling self-leadership has ripple effects felt throughout the organization, building teamwork, engagement in vision and mission, and a reconnection to ourselves and our noble profession.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define self-leadership and the critical role it plays in healthcare today
  • Understand how self-leadership benefits the caregiver, patient, and organization
  • Identify self-leadership tools
  • Participate in a follow-up Resilience Challenge


Diane was a BIG HIT as the keynote speaker at our Annual Case Management Conference! Numerous attendees personally relayed to me they felt Diane was speaking directly to them because she helped identify the need for change and provided the tools to take that first step.

BUILDING RESILIENCE WITH COMPASSION

 

There is a “compassion crisis” in healthcare today with a great paradox. While healthcare is inherently compassionate, the very connection we need to make to be effective caregivers can cause stress and burnout, undermining our ability to be compassionate. The solution to this paradox lies in understanding the critical differences between compassion, empathy, and sympathy. Understanding those differences improves patient outcomes, engages the caregiver, and drives hospital revenues. The critical skill required to build resilience with compassion is the often-overlooked element of self-compassion. Self-compassion has been shown to protect caregivers from compassion fatigue and increase their satisfaction in their caregiving roles. Compassion and self-compassion are teachable skills that produce a remarkable difference in engagement, morale –the antidote to burnout.

Learning Objectives

  • Define resilience and the critical role it plays in healthcare providers today
  • Understand how compassion benefits the care provider, patient, and organization
  • Differentiate compassion, empathy, and sympathy as it relates to healthcare providers
  • Participate in a follow-up Resilience Challenge

 

I can’t thank you enough for the wonderfully inspiring, supportive, and motivating virtual ceremony speech for our new Sigma Spring 2020 inductees. Your words were timely and stories relevant to the needs of not only our new grads and our seasoned nurse leaders.