Connie Dieken is a world-renowned expert on the future of leadership influence and change, Emmy-Award Winning Broadcaster, Best-selling Author and Influence Lab Founder.

Her work focuses on enhancing the human side of leadership influence in the age of artificial intelligence. Her insights and methods empower leaders to drive positive change in an increasingly fragmented and challenging world.

With over 20 years of research at the Influence Lab, she supports leaders in maximizing their performance and profitability to achieve transformative outcomes. She has developed three innovative tools for leadership influence, which are used by executive teams worldwide.

As a keynote speaker, Connie Dieken captivates audiences on some of the world’s largest stages with engaging, actionable, and inspiring talks. She weaves powerful stories from her experience as a C-suite advisor, leading leadership researcher, and former news anchor, making her insights come alive and immediately applicable for her audiences.

Connie Dieken Lecture topics

The Future of Your Leadership Influence – How to Lead Positive Change in a Disrupted, Divided World

Leadership influence is evolving faster than you realize. You now have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shape transformative change in our post pandemic, pre-AI world. In this keynote, you’ll discover how to influence with integrity using a no-manipulation method to achieve positive, lasting results. And you’ll learn how to apply three habits that position you to expand and accelerate your leadership capabilities.

You’ll discover Connie’s Influence Cycle© methodology to accelerate your influence, including how to:

• Connect with anyone through strategic context and common ground.
• Convey bolder leadership messages with clarity and conviction.
• Convince even the most resistant stakeholders to commit to positive change.

Leading Change in the Age of AI – Accelerate Your Human Influence in the Face of Machine Learning

The rise of AI is transforming leadership dynamics. Machine learning is bringing the human side of leadership to the surface as leaders must integrate the present and the future.  It’s now or never with regards to elevating your leadership influence and your ability to shape transformative change. Rampant speculation on how AI will affect your industry is ushering in ethical dilemmas.

In this program, you’ll discover how to:

• Adapt your leadership communication to gain openness and clarity amid the chaos.
• Advocate for diverse perspectives to align AI with the organization’s values and goals.
• Accelerate your personal influence in the face of machine learning.

Own Your Presence – Stop Selling Yourself Short and Show Up As the Leader You Really Are

In this program, you’ll see there’s nothing more powerful than discovering the gap between how you want to be perceived and how you truly are. Close this gap and you’ll transform your ability to influence others and make things happen. Your presence is a promise of the value that you deliver, and you’ll dare to think of yourself in a new way because of this program.

You’ll apply the findings of The Presence Project© methodology, including how to boost your:

• Inner Presence for a steadiness that doesn’t rise and fall with imposter syndrome.
• Outer Presence so that others experience you at your best and gain true clout.
• Verbal Presence to deliver clarity and conviction that transforms rhetoric into results.

Present to Win – Create Compelling Presentations That Influence Unwavering Commitment

Want to transform the way people respond to your ideas? Presentations are not about sharing information—they’re about creating commitment. Stop creating presentations and start influencing outcomes. In this program, you’ll discover how to shorten the time it takes to develop materials and ensure your ideas gain unwavering commitment from your key stakeholders.

You’ll discover The Present to Win© methodology, including how to:

• Define the metrics that open minds, overcome resistance, and drive positive decisions.
• Develop a streamlined framework to produce crystal clear, compelling perspectives.
• Deliver with confidence and conviction, even in front of the most challenging audiences.

Connie’s strategic influence methodologies guide the world’s top performing leaders to gain unwavering commitment from their key stakeholders in record time—including global expansions, mergers and acquisitions, leadership team transitions, initial public offerings, technology transformations, sustainability initiatives, and other transformative growth drivers.

Connie is the author of two bestselling books, Talk Less, Say More and Become the Real Deal. She’s also contributed to five other leadership books with world-class colleagues and is currently writing another book, Influence with Integrity in the Age of AI.

A 5-time Emmy award-winning news anchor, Connie has been recognized by organizations such as Global Gurus, Thinkers50 and Hall of Fame around the world.

**In her time off, Connie is an avid cyclist and travels the world with her children.