The Author
Connie Dieken is the nation’s leading authority on influential communication in our distracted, short attention span world. Her expertise is critical to leaders and their organizations because communication is the single greatest challenge in business today.
Connie is the founder and chief experience officer of onPoint Communication, LLC. She coaches leaders to ignite positive action at organizations such as Apple, Olympus, McDonald’s, Moen, Deloitte, Pacific Life, Bausch & Lomb, and American Greetings.
onPoint guides leaders, emerging leaders and sales teams to be remarkably influential and raise their Communication Intelligence® in four areas: presentation skills, media savvy, executive presence, and high performance interpersonal communication.
Connie developed her expertise in the television industry. Her broadcast excellence was recognized with her induction into the Radio/Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame. She spent more than twenty years as a television news anchorwoman, reporter and co-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 has represented more than 50 companies as their spokesperson, including Intel, Sealy, General Electric, Ernst and Young, and Goodyear. She’s also the voice of Diebold automated teller machines worldwide. It was in broadcast studios where Connie discovered the real reason she was put on this earth - to help leaders communicate influentially so they can make things happen.
Connie’s contributions as a business leader have also earned top honors. Among them, she’s earned a Leadership Think Tank Award, a Top Ten Women Business Owners Award from the National Association of Women Business Owners, and the elite Certified Speaking Professional designation which is awarded to the world's top speakers by the National Speakers Association.
Her business communication insights have been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Crain’s Business, The Chicago Tribune, Women’s Day, and in dozens of publications across the country. In addition to Talk Less, Say More published by Wiley in September 2009, Connie has also co-authored four other books - Communicate Clearly, Confidently & Credibly and the 303 Solutions book series.
Connie delivers her expertise through keynote speeches, coaching programs, workshops, leadership retreats, webinars, an iPhone app, the Daily Dieken Twitter tweets, and the Stay onPoint with Connie blog. She is also an active contributor to many charitable and civic programs and is a dedicated parent of teenagers who keep her on her toes about inter-generational communication.
