Diana Burns

Consultant

Multifaceted expert with journalistic panache

Diana’s specialties are persuasive writing and storytelling — she’ll help you craft proposals, business cases, and speeches that give a competitive edge. She shows our clients how to harness the power of behavioural science and plain language techniques to engage, inform, and persuade. As a result, they improve their success rates.

Diana develops and delivers bespoke workshops for clients in every sector with any kind of communication need. She also plays a vital part in the discovery and training phases of our culture change programmes. Executives feel comfortable working with her to improve their persuasive writing and presentation skills.

Bringing a wealth of experience and skills

Diana has experience as a journalist, broadcaster, and press secretary. She has also been a communications manager and contractor in many government agencies.

Diana is widely travelled, a fluent speaker of Spanish, and interested in other languages. She works with Māori organisations, people of Pacific heritage, and clients from Spain and Latin America.

Diana’s areas of specialty

All our consultants have the skills and smarts to make any workshop a success. But they each have special passions too.

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Diana is amazing and such a talented lady. Very engaging and supportive.

Kylie F
The Treasury

Really appreciated the trainer [Diana]. She was extremely welcoming, supportive, encouraging, and generous with her responses. She seems like she has a lot of great experience which supports her ability to engage in this training. I also really appreciated her cultural capability and understanding of the differences with English and Te Reo Māori. Best trainer I’ve had for sure!

Alexandra P
Te Arawhiti

Diana was an amazing facilitator! She kept things moving but I also appreciated the time she took to workshop our own work with us and give feedback. I really loved the content and learned a lot about planning, writing and evaluating my work.

Claudette P
Ali Group

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