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DR. DIANE HAMILTON

Dr. Diane Hamilton Helps Improve Corporate Culture, Which in Turn Improves Engagement and Innovation

A Contagious Passion for Improving Interpersonal Communication

In addition to being a nationally syndicated radio host, award-winning speaker, author, and educator, Dr. Hamilton is a thought leader in the fields of leadership, sales, marketing, management, engagement, personality, curiosity, and motivation. To help improve relationships in the workplace — and performance as a result — Dr. Hamilton draws on her decades of work experience in software, computers, corporate training, pharmaceuticals, real estate, mortgage lending, social media, education, and publishing.

A sought-after expert in emotional intelligence, Dr. Hamilton’s research has been published widely in peer-reviewed journals. She is the creator of the Curiosity Code Index® and Perception Power Index, as well as the author of five books sold worldwide: Curiosity Unleashed, Cracking the Curiosity Code, The Power of Perception, The Online Student’s User Manual, How to Reinvent Your Career, and It’s Not You, It’s Your Personality. Her curiosity book and assessment are an integral part of the Forbes School of Business and Technology’s HR curriculum. Her book regarding personalities was required reading at an Arizona-based university, where she was also nominated for an honorary doctorate in addition to her traditionally-obtained Ph.D. in Business Management.

Experience In, and Beyond the Classroom

Dr. Hamilton’s success in multiple industries, authoring books, and career as an MBA Program Chair and Assistant Professor propelled Dr. Hamilton into the speaking world, and now she is regularly hired by companies like Forbes to speak to organizations to increase engagement, improve productivity, and reduce conflict. Whether through her radio show, a webinar, or a live presentation, Dr. Hamilton presents to and interviews leaders from some of the top organizations in the modern workplace.

Incorporating her nearly four decades of real-world experience, Dr. Hamilton provides strategies that are ready to implement and create results. With a Ph.D. in Business, she has taught over 1,000 business-related courses and is a qualified Myers-Briggs and a certified Emotional Intelligence instructor.

Cracking The Curiosity Code

The Key to Unlocking Human Potential

Curiosity is one of the most analyzed, discussed, and written about topics in the study of human behavior. We have learned that it is innate from birth, as illustrated by the phrase, childlike curiosity. We have learned that it is essential to the survival of the entire animal kingdom. We have learned that the most successful leaders in entrepreneurs attribute their success to sustaining their child like curiosity, while many people’s sense of curiosity tends to wane or deteriorate as they age. For the longest time, we attributed that diminished state of curiosity to the aging process itself. But studies have shown that is not the case.

Why do we lose our childlike curiosity? What are the causes; and what are the consequences? Most importantly, how do we get it back? That is the essence of this book.

Complete with scientific studies, interviews with state-of-the-art leaders and entrepreneurs, and analysis, Dr. Hamilton presents her case that, our fears, our assumptions, technology, and our environment, are the major factors that contribute to our diminished curiosity. Those causes, which she has reduced to the acronym, F. A. T. E., are examined, with the means for the reader to measure each, and take the necessary action to regain their childlike curiosity.

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Top Organizations Tap Into Dr. Hamilton's Expertise

Tonerra Management Consulting

Dr. Diane Hamilton is the founder and CEO of Tonerra, a U.S.-based leadership and management consulting company. Dr. Diane Hamilton and Tonerra are dedicated to improving organizations’ successes through speaking engagements, training, assessment and consulting services. Topics are focused on emotional intelligence, engagement, generational conflict and other common business success-related issues.

Tonerra is the sole subsidiary of Dr. Hamilton’s consulting, speaking, media and entertainment work, through Dr. Diane Hamilton LLC.

Increase your employee performance and loyalty with help from Dr. Diane Hamilton.

Testimonials

Mike Federle

Dr. Hamilton’s excellent exploration of curiosity as a quantifiable success metric will become a benchmark for future leadership courses and life coaches’ playbooks.

Jeffrey Hayzlett

Diane Hamilton has done it — the Curiosity Code is like cracking the safe of for personal and professional potential.

Verne Harnish

Curiosity is THE foundational talent which will continue to differentiate those who lead in their field, industry, and life.  Diane has created a ground-breaking book and assessment to help people overcome the things that hold them back from being curious.  Just as understanding the importance of emotional intelligence has led to success, developing curiosity could foreseeably be the next movement to enhance human performance.

Judy Umlas – Senior V. P., Author, Trainer

“Powerful presentation.”

“Dynamic and interesting topic.”

“Very insightful.”

“Enjoyed this presentation; very relevant to my role.”

“An eye opener!”

“Excellent presentation.”

 

We have hired Dr. Diane Hamilton as a speaker on multiple occasions to discuss her work with curiosity.  Recently, we also had her speak about perception.  These were just a few of the nearly all 5 star ratings Dr. Diane Hamilton’s Keynote presentation The Power of Perception: The Key to Communicate Effectively in a Globally Diverse World has received to date on IIL’s Leadership & Innovation 2022 Online Conference! That’s why IIL asks her back again and again, as well as reshows her presentations in our “Brought Back by Popular Demand” feature in conferences that follow.  Attendees loved how Dr. Diane Hamilton shares her ground-breaking research that has determined the four factors that impact the perception process, and people were enthusiastic about learning how to improve communication, and be more engaged, productive, and innovative at work.

So Dr. Diane, until the next time…!

Bill Goodwin

We recently had Dr. Diane Hamilton deliver the keynote at our cornerstone leadership event to a large group of senior level executives and professionals. Not only was Diane a dynamic speaker who engaged the audience, she was also easy to work with and spent extra time interacting with the group. Her enthusiasm and knowledge around the link between increasing curiosity and higher levels of engagement, creativity and productivity is unrivaled. We had a record turnout for her talk, with many attendees contacted me afterward to share how much they enjoyed her presentation. I highly recommend her for your next event. You will not be disappointed.

Anurupa Ganguly

Dr. Diane Hamilton understands the intersection of learning and technology like few in the field. It was a pleasure to discuss our vision for research-based immersive virtual reality that will rapidly improve math & science learning outcomes for our most deserving students. Rich conversations are difficult to come by in a space that’s overwrought with theoretical ideas that don’t translate to classrooms and students. Her perspective is sharp, forward-thinking and focused on how we operationalize and scale next generation learning technologies across sectors.

Camilita Nuttall

THE Dr. Diane Hamilton (I say THE) is an amazing communicator, world-class speaker and totally knows her stuff hands down! Dr. Diane was a featured speaker on my Global Champions Summit as well as a guest on The Camilita® Podcast. The wisdom, the delivery, the passion for changing people’s lives and the culture of organizations are second to none. Her topic ‘How Thinking Curiously can Result in Massive Success’ was well received by my global audience. Though she is so well educated and recognized in her field, she is so humble. I love her ability to ask thought-provoking questions and answer with so much clarity so the audience feels well able to implement. If you are looking for a keynote speaker, trainer, coach or mentor, I highly recommend Dr. Diane. You’d be so glad you did!