Diane DiResta is President of DiResta Communications, Inc., a New York City consultancy serving business leaders who want to communicate with maximum impact — whether face-to-face, in front of a crowd or from an electronic platform. Clients include: Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Federal Reserve Bank, Helena Chemical, Henry Schein, JP Morgan, L’Oreal, Medco Health, Madison Square Garden, Merck, National Basketball Association, National Grid, and Sanofi Pasteur, Securitas, UMBC.
As a top speech communications and media coach she shows clients how to communicate with greater impact and project a more powerful presence. Ms. DiResta earned her M.S. degree from Columbia University, is a Certified Speech Pathologist and author of two books, Knockout Presentations: How to Deliver Your Message with Power, Punch, and Pizzazz, an Amazon.com category best-seller and widely-used text in college business communication courses and Conversations on Success.
At Salomon Brothers she was a Training Specialist in the area of management development and as Assistant Vice-President at Drexel Burnham Lambert she recruited and trained MBAs for the Institutional Sales and Trading Training Program.
As Senior Associate at The Executive Technique, she delivered presentation skills seminars to corporations.
The New York City Board of Education was her first employer where as a Speech Pathologist she diagnosed and treated children with speech and language disorders.
Ms. DiResta has spoken in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, and South America. She taught speech and listening courses at Cornell University and NYU, was a guest lecturer at Fels School of Government, UPenn. She's been featured on CNN, “Good Day NY,” Bloomberg radio, and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Entrepreneur magazine, and Investors Business Daily.
DiResta received the Golden Mic award from the NY Chapter of National Speakers Association, and the Louis K. Miller award for Business Leadership from the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce. She is past president of the NYC National Speakers Association. Presently, she serves on the advisory board of Enterprising Women magazine and NYCID, a Staten Island non-profit that provides community dispute resolution services and youth programs.
DiResta is active in local community affairs including the founding of a Confidence Class for seventh grade girls in Staten Island, N.Y.

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