Former ER Nurse, Author of STOP Living Life Like An Emergency
As an emergency room nurse for over 20 years, I have seen it all. The 40-year-old executive who fell asleep at the wheel because she was too tired. The electrician with 80 percent of his body burned because he got too distracted. The young mother of four who ignored the lump in her breast the size of a grapefruit! So many of the patients I treated had one common denominator—they were trying to do too much, too fast, too often. All were living life like an emergency.
Although I literally put people back together in the ER, I have always been more interested in empowering people to breakthrough and take care of themselves before they break down. As a professional speaker for the past 12 years, I have spoken to thousands of men and women in health care, sales, and education. I have also been involved in the health and fitness field for over 20 years, as a lifesaving coach, seminar leader, personal trainer, and fitness instructor teaching everything from kick-boxing to my current practice of yoga.
I wrote my first book, STOP Living Life Like an Emergency, because I wanted to illustrate and identify how so many of us were living in such a frenetic state of more, better, faster.
While I was very close to this material as a nurse and as your typical overachiever, in recent years life events have allowed me to go deeper with my personal journey. My soon to be published self-help memoir, Voice Lessons: How to Stand Up, Show Up, and Speak Up in Your Everyday Life, came out of that journey and has allowed me to go deeper with my material as well—sharing my personal story and providing practical strategies and provocative questions to empower women to find their voice in all the areas of their lives from relationships to work and from sex to money.
My professional memberships include the National Speakers Association, National Speakers Association-Colorado, Colorado Author’s League, American Association of Lifestyle Counselors and the Sigma Theta Tau Honorary Nursing Organization. I am grateful to be so well-connected with the professional relationships and personal support that have made writing Voice Lessons possible.
I have lived in Colorado for the past 18 years and can’t imagine living anywhere else since I love to be outside as much as I can. I have two nephews who I adore and still consider “my boys” even though they are 18 and 20 and wear size 15 shoes! I stay sane and active with yoga, snowshoeing, hiking, and biking.
Available Programs:
Finding Your Voice in Work, Love, and Play - Based on Diane's newest, soon to be published book, this candid and humorous keynote offers practical and straightforward tools to help you find your voice and speak your truth in every area of your life. Diane uses self-revealing assessments, concrete strategies, and real-life examples to show women how to take care of what is most important: themselves. Diane will help you rediscover who you are and who you have always been, from the inside out—not by focusing on getting more done, but by demonstrating how to break free of old fears, insecurities, and destructive patterns and belief systems that cause you to lose your voice. In this high energy and interactive program you will learn how to listen to your inside voice, speak your truth out loud, and trust yourself to live it! Perfect for Women's, Healthcare, and Wellness Conferences. Empowered attendees leave this program saying, "I know exactly what I need to go home and do" "I never realized how angry I was until today" "Thank you for being so vulnerable because you allowed me to be vulnerable too"
Stop Living Life Like an EMERGENCY!: Rescue Strategies for the Overworked and Overwhelmed - Based on Diane's bestselling book of the same title (LifeLine Press, 2002), this is her most popular keynote to show you how to stay out of the emergency room of life! With humor injected stories from the emergency room, audiences come away from this upbeat and high energy program with a renewed energy and enthusiasm for self care by learning how and why to say no; triage their daily activities; eliminate the energy drainers; use OPT (other people’s time and energy); eliminate excuses, and most importantly commit to action! Attendees leave this program saying, "You were speaking directly to me today. How did you know?" and "WOW. I really got a wake-up call." This unique and thought-provoking program will allow you to be more productive, effective and authentic in every area of your life with a greater work/life balance! Perfect for opening your conference to set the tone of appreciation and self-care, or to end your conference with a bang and an "I can do it!" attitude.
Reclaiming the Spirit of Nursing - When you first decided to become a nurse, that decision was a defining moment not only for you, but for every hand you have held, every brow you have wiped and every tear you have shared with patients and their families since. Still, short staffing, increased acuities and complexities of care provide daunting challenges for nurses everywhere. Let Diane challenge and inspire you to reclaim your passion and pride for nursing so that you can continue to make a REAL difference in your work and in your life.
ROI/Tangible Program Benefits:
- Discover 3 Universal Precautions to protect your time and energy
- Find Your Voice... and trust it to know what it knows
- Turn Up the Volume... and expand and open to your own greatness
- Learn how to triage your daily activities
- Remember why you are in the Nursing Profession and why you stay
Testimonials/Client List:
By using humor and her own personal experiences, Diane was able to keep the audience enchanted, especially difficult at the end of a long day. She was the perfect closer-Sutter Health Sacramento
I have never received so many emails thanking me for bringing a presenter to campus! You were an inspiration to all of us by being able to relate to this very diversified group and their needs. Thank you for a dynamic presentation.-Metro State College
Thank you for sharing your positive energy and great ideas with us. Your energy and enthusiasm is infectious and your opening keynote set the tone for the rest of the day.-Texas Tech University
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