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To Create the Competitive Edge- You Need Productive Cohesive Teams

Do you want:

• More Employee Engagement
  
• More Trust
  
• More Fun
• More Teamwork
• Less Conflict

As a Group dynamics and Generational Workforce Expert, Deanne’s career has revolved around helping people break through communication boundaries and workplace roadblocks. She works with CEO’s and business leaders, who want to improve team performance, reduce conflict, stop the revolving door of turn over, and boost the bottom line.

Deanne is a multi-award winning speaker, communication and group dynamics expert. She is known for her high-energy, high-content presentations. Her keynote presentation and workshops are laced with humor and actionable tools for maximum take-away value.

Deanne is a speaker and trainer that clients invite back again and again. She has enough degrees, honors, awards, certifications, and rave reviews to fill a file cabinet. Deanne has become the speaker, trainer or coach of choice for organizations and leaders looking for solutions for today’s changing workplace.

For more than 25 years, she’s worked with managers, leaders and individuals lead more productive teams, and manage more effectively. She has a strong business background with expertise in medicine, hospitality, and utilities.

Her original research on generational workforce group dynamics issues makes her unique. She started studying the new generations while on the  faculty at San Jose State University and presented her first generational research at the Western Regional Communication Association Conference. Later when she left academia, and went into the corporate world she discovered business were having management issues with the generational teams also. Deanne continued her generational research focused on business team dynamics applications. Her continued research on generational workforce issues now spans over 25 years and has covered many issues, such as motivation, employee retention, employee attraction, loyalty, conflict, employee engagement, communication, leadership and management.

Based on her generational research, Deanne was asked by ComEd, a major utility in Chicago to design, develop and implement a program specifically to help managers lead new generational teams. Deanne called her program The Coaching Clinic. That program received rave reviews and saw an immediate return on investment. Deanne was then asked to roll out that Coaching Clinic program to multiple departments, and to their partner company, Peco Energy, in  Pennsylvania. One reoccurring unexpected outcome was the reduction of departmental conflict by 80%. Deanne received national recognition for her generational workforce management team program from Training Magazines Top 100.

She is the premier author and expert on generational communication. She’s been providing insightful solutions in training and managing the changing workforce since 1992. Her on-going research provides clients with leading-edge solutions that drive results.

Through keynote speaking and fun, interactive workshops, Deanne helps participants achieve breakthrough results and soar to new heights. Participants often comment on her unique ability to effectively use real-life stories along with proven strategies and tools that work!

Author of four books, and her articles have been published in over 300 trade magazines and professional journals.

While in graduate school Deanne conducted research in the area of intercultural conflict strategies, which extended across 28 countries and 52 cultures. When the First Gulf War Crisis broke out there was Persian Bashing in the area, and Deanne was asked to step in and mediate the internal diversity conflict issues in several companies in Silicon Valley and at several college campuses in the Bay Area of California. Her Generational research coupled with her conflict background has made her uniquely qualified to provide conflict strategy workshops and facilitate conflict mediation disputes to her clients today.