Connie Dieken

Chief Executive Advisor; Founder of Influence 360; Emmy Award-Winning Journalist; Inductee NSA Speakers Hall of Fame. Discover how to gain influence and earn trust.

Expert on

  • Best-Selling Author
  • Persuasion / Influencing
  • Leadership
  • Consulting
  • Presentation Skills
  • Sales
  • Communication

Fee Range

$20,000–$30,000

Travels from

OH, US

Biography

Connie Dieken is the founder of The Dieken Group—an executive coaching and consulting firm that advises CEOs and other senior leaders in the spotlight. Connie helps these leaders deliver influential messages in high-pressure situations.

Her clients are leaders in some the world’s best-known organizations including Apple, HP, Nestlé, and The Cleveland Clinic.

Connie developed her unique skills during her twenty years as a TV journalist for ABC and NBC. She received five Emmy Awards®, two Telly Awards®, and was inducted into the Radio/Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame.®

While anchoring news programs, Connie would interview people of power, including President Bill Clinton and Jack Welch. As a result, she became fascinated with how leaders influence and gain commitment. This fascination prompted her to leave broadcasting and launch her own company in 2000.

Although Connie already had years of qualitative data on how people influence, she also wanted data that was quantitative. When she launched her firm, she began an ongoing research study with over 20,000 respondents that became the statistically valid assessment tool, Influence 360°. Influence 360° measures an individual’s personal influence patterns, and guides them on how to become leaders capable of influencing in any situation, regardless of the conditions.

Using the influence research as a foundation, she created training programs that are taught worldwide in corporate universities including The Influence Lab® and Present to Win®.

In 2006, The National Association of Women Business Owners named Connie one of the Top 10 Female Business Owners of Northeast Ohio. In 2007, the Leadership Ohio Think Tank honored her with its Small Business Award of Excellence. In 2017, Global Gurus named Connie a Top 10 Global Guru of Executive Coaching.

Connie has been interviewed about her work for numerous media outlets, including CEO.com, CNBC, Crain’s Business, Investor’s Business Daily, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.

Connie is a top-selling author. Both her books, Talk Less, Say More and Become the Real Deal, hit #1 on the Amazon bestseller list. The audio version of Talk Less, Say More, narrated by Connie, reached #1 on Audible’s bestseller list.

Connie is also a renowned keynote speaker and in 2017 the National Speakers Association inducted her into the Speaker’s Hall of Fame. She’s delivered speeches on four continents to audiences in the thousands. She talks about how to develop leadership presence and lasting influence. Her speaking clients include Berkshire Hathaway, Citibank, Dow Corning, Dr. Pepper, eBay, Ingram, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald’s, Old Dominion, The Home Depot, and Unicentro.

Along with her keynote speeches for corporations, Connie is a guest lecturer for executive education and MBA programs in business schools such as Case Western University, Clemson University, Indiana University, and The Ohio State University.

Speaker Videos

INFLUENCE YOUR WORLD: THREE HABITS TO INFLUENCE OTHERS AND MAKE THINGS HAPPEN

Are distracted, impatient people tuning you out before you can make your point? In this program, you’ll learn to bring your A-game to interpersonal communication. Your audience will walk away with three powerful habits to help you connect with anyone, convey information clearly, and convince anyone to take action. Attendees will discover how to:

  • CONNECT with anyone to instantly capture their undivided attention
  • CONVEY and nail information without overloading or confusing
  • CONVINCE anyone to take the action you want and feel good about it

OWN YOUR PRESENCE: HOW TO BUILD YOUR BRAND, ESTABLISH TRUST AND GAIN LASTING INFLUENCE

This highly engaging an interactive session is based on Connie’s latest bestselling book, Become The Real Deal: The Proven Path to Influence and Executive Presence.

Connie brings an urgent message of how to gain gravitas in today’s demanding, judgmental, attention-deficit world. Her decade-long Presence Project research study has uncovered startling disparities between the way we want to be known and the way we are known. In this uniquely interactive session, Connie pinpoints the three most crucial presence problems that undermine our power – issues we’re often oblivious to that zap our ability to be – and be seen as – the real deal. Your attendees will experience a powerful ah-ha moment as one of the world’s top executive coaches guides them to identify their presence problem, and frees them to transform into the powerfully influential leaders they’re meant to be. Audiences will learn:

• How to discover their own Centers of Influence and how to capitalize on them to become the powerful, purposeful authority they are meant to be.

• How they can override personal influence-killing tendencies, such as narcissism, anxiety, long-windedness, silence, social facades and invisibility.

• How to uncover the strengths and skills they need to gain influence and lead their organization to success.

PRESENT TO WIN: DEVELOP & DELIVER IDEAS THAT INFLUENCE

Your audience will never approach or deliver a presentation the same way after experiencing this program. This keynote hones in on the outcome of presenting: how to influence positive decision-making. From this point forward, your attendees will place their own audiences at the center of everything they do. Connie models her strategies from the stage, so your audience gets a double dip as they discover her wildly successful approach that Fortune 100 teams have adopted as their winning presentation model. 

Your audience will discover how to:

  • Reverse-engineer messages to influence even the most demanding people
  • Simplify to amplify to fight presentation bloat
  • Present naked. (It’s not what it sounds like, but it’s wildly fun)

HOW TO MASTER MEDIA EXPOSURE

Great leaders look beyond the media exposure and towards influencing their audience.  

In this media coaching program from Emmy-award winning broadcaster, Connie Dieken, your attendees will get an inside look into the power and tricks of the media trade. Only executives armed with the triggers and strategies from an insider are able to navigate this territory effectively. 

  • Connie prepares your attendees to master media exposure! To understand the media experience to protect their brand and reputation, or to get media help in spreading their message.
  • They learn to edit themselves instead of letting the media edit them. They will take away skills to connect with their true audience using media as a conduit and adapt to even the toughest of situations.
  • They will be prepared to avoid ill-prepared statements that can cause disastrous results.
  • They will learn to develop and practice key messages and understand how preparation and practice can help master any media exposure