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DR. DIANE HAMILTON

Curiosity Expert, Behavioral Scientist, and Keynote Speaker on AI, Leadership, and the Future of Work

A Research-Driven Approach to Curiosity, Leadership, and the Future of Work

Dr. Diane Hamilton is a behavioral scientist, curiosity expert, keynote speaker, and author whose work focuses on curiosity, leadership, AI, and the future of work. Drawing on decades of experience across business, education, technology, healthcare, and consulting, she helps leaders and organizations understand what inhibits curiosity and how to build the behaviors that support innovation, adaptability, and meaningful performance.

Dr. Hamilton is the creator of the validated Curiosity Code Index®, which identifies four factors that can inhibit curiosity: Fear, Assumptions, Technology, and Environment. She is the author of seven books, including Adaptive Curiosity, Curiosity Unleashed, and Cracking the Curiosity Code, and her research and writing examine how curiosity influences leadership, innovation, adaptability, and performance.

A global keynote speaker, Founder and CEO of Tonerra, Forbes Contributor, Fulbright Specialist, and Thinkers50 Radar thinker, Dr. Hamilton brings her research to audiences and organizations around the world. She has served on advisory boards including DocuSign, the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, and RadiusAI, and her work has been featured by Forbes, Inc., Investor’s Business Daily, SHRM, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox.

Experience Across Business, Education, and Leadership

Dr. Hamilton brings nearly four decades of experience across business, technology, healthcare, education, and leadership development. She is a former MBA Program Chair and Assistant Professor at the Forbes School of Business & Technology and has taught more than 1,000 business-related courses. Her books and research have been incorporated into university curricula and professional development programs, and her work on curiosity and personality has been assigned as required university reading.

Her experience extends well beyond the classroom. Dr. Hamilton has worked across industries including software, pharmaceuticals, real estate, financial services, social media, and corporate training, giving her a practical understanding of the challenges leaders face. Through keynotes, consulting, executive education, and thousands of interviews with leaders, innovators, and experts, she translates research into practical strategies that strengthen curiosity, adaptability, engagement, innovation, and performance.

Organizations Worldwide Turn to Dr. Hamilton for Insight

Tonerra Management Consulting

Dr. Diane Hamilton is the Founder and CEO of Tonerra, a leadership and management consulting company focused on curiosity, innovation, leadership development, and organizational performance. Through speaking, consulting, assessments, and executive education, Tonerra helps leaders identify the barriers that inhibit curiosity and build the behaviors that support adaptability, engagement, and meaningful performance.

Tonerra supports Dr. Hamilton’s speaking, research, consulting, assessment, and media work through Dr. Diane Hamilton LLC, bringing together her work in behavioral science, leadership, and the future of work.

Strengthen Curiosity, Adaptability, and Performance with 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!