Name: Diane
DiResta
Title: Workplace communications/public
speaking expert, author of Knockout Presentations: How to Deliver Your Message
With Power, Punch, and Pizzazz, and President of DiResta Communications Inc.
Company: DiResta Communications
Inc., Staten Island, NY. www.diresta.com.
Summary of Expertise: Diane
DiResta is a media trainer, speech coach, and certified speech pathologist who
works with executives in Fortune 500 companies, celebrities, and sports figures,
to get them communicating with clarity and precision. She trains business people
to communicate with greater impact in the marketplace and coaches leaders to
project their power to influence in order to achieve the result they want. She's
also the author of the Amazon.com best-selling guide to public speaking and communicating
from the platform Knockout Presentations: How to Deliver Your Message With
Power, Punch, and Pizzazz. She has coached and consulted a vast number and
range of clients, including executives at AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank, Warner
Bros., the U.S. Army, the NBA, Merck, and IBM.
Educational Background and Certification: Diane
has a Masters of Science from Columbia University in speech pathology, and a
B.A. in speech from Brooklyn College. She is a Nationally Certified Speech pathologist
(CCC).
Books or Articles Published: Knockout
Presentations: How to Deliver Your Message With Power, Punch, and Pizzazz (Chandler
House Press, 1998); Conversations on Success - Interview with David E. Wright (Insight
Publishing Company, 2004); "Voice Power: The Care and Feeding of the Professional
Voice," Professional Speaker Magazine, May 2004.
Memberships and Awards: Diane
is past President of the NY Tri-State National Speakers Association (NSA), winner
of the NSA Golden Mic Award for professional excellence and service, and recipient
of the Louis K. Miller business leadership award from the Staten Island Chamber
of Commerce. She is listed in the World Who's Who of Women.
Subjects or Issues Diane Can Knowledgeably
Discuss: Personal and leadership communication, virtual communication
for geographically distant teams, video conferencing, presidential candidate
speaking styles, body language, the fear of public speaking, communication across
cultures, audience development, technology and communication, multicultural speaking,
listening, workplace communication, e-mail, leaving voicemail, gender communication
styles, the glass ceiling, sales presentations, and the fine art of being influential
in business.
Experience with the Media: CNN,
Good Day New York, Bloomberg Radio, Wall Street Journal, Investor's
Business Daily, Entrepreneur Magazine, NY Times, LA Times, London
Guardian, Cosmopolitan, BusinessWeek Online, Sales & Marketing
Strategies and News, Sales & Marketing Management, Selling Power,
Time Custom Publishing.
Contact Information:
DiResta Communications, Inc
31 E32 Street Suite 300
New York, NY 10016
212 481-8484 Ext. 312
Email: diane@diresta.com
URL: http://www.diresta.com