Jean M. DiGiovanna

Jean M. DiGiovanna is a powerful speaker, coach and educator with a unique gift for shifting people's perspective empowering teams and individuals to achieve their highest potential. Jean has over 17 years of industry-wide experience in the areas of authentic communication, effective teamwork and professional and personal growth.

As a Public Speaker, Trainer and Workshop Facilitator, Jean delivers high-impact presentations, workshops and training courses in the areas of communication, coaching and consulting skills and team effectiveness and speaks on life strategies such as work life balance and personal and career fulfillment. She has spoken both nationally and internationally and her work is described as “life-changing”.

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Programs:

Speaking Topics for Business

* The Power of Coaching for Rapid Learning & Growth – Examines how to create a learning organization through the power of coaching. Demystifies the "art" of coaching and reviews practical skills to immediately apply in the workplace to create rapid growth.
* Speak with Confidence - Uncovers the greatest challenges and critical success factors to speaking with confidence and introduces a 5-step model for speaking with confidence that provides lasting impact every time.
*  Mastering Confrontation – Learn techniques to overcome the barriers to conflict and utilize concrete tools to master confrontation and deal with conflict as it arises.
* Communication that Works in the Workplace – Leave with tools to improve your interpersonal skills necessary for effective communication in the workplace.
* Building Effective Teams (even when you’re not always in charge) – Learn the critical success factors that distinguish high performing teams and tools to impact change and inspire and motivate others when you are not always in charge.
* The Key to Achieving Results…Effortlessly! - Learn easy-to-use tools to achieve results through clear intentions and build your organization by design instead of by default.
* Building Relationships that Build Your Business - Reviews five critical success factors to building lasting relationships that build your business and a practical structure for implementing those factors.
* Effortless Networking – Taking the “Work” out of Networking - Learn reusable tools & techniques and a new way to relate to networking that makes it feel effortless.

Training Programs in Corporations

* Tried & True Coaching Techniques for Managers & Leaders – Defines what coaching is and is not, reviews process, tools and techniques for asking powerful questions, staying curious, listening effectively, empowering and influencing.
* Straight Communication – Reviews styles of communication and learning, effective listening skills and key skills for expectation setting and open and direct communication.
* Powerful Presentations – Process, tools and techniques to design, develop and deliver high-impact presentations.
* Basic Facilitation Skills– Process, tools and techniques to lead a group to a common goal. Reviews the role of the facilitator, preparation, planning, delivery and follow-up of a facilitated session.
* Advanced Facilitation Skills– Reviews facilitation process and goes into depth on facilitation styles, creative thinking techniques and tools to handle challenging situations.
* Fundamentals of Consulting– Process, tools and techniques for effective consulting and client relationship building.
* Create Powerful Training Courses – Train-the-trainer for internal trainers in the future design and delivery of their respective training and development programs.

Speaking Topics for Life

* The Key to Achieving What you Want...Effortlessly – Learn easy-to-use tools to attract what you truly want in your life and walk away with immediate actions to begin to create the life you've imagined.
* Access Your Personal Power & Use Your Voice– Identify what is most important to you and breakthrough what it is to be powerful so that your work and life thrive and prosper.
* The Act of Balancing Life – Learn the process and tools that bring all areas of your life back into balance.
* The Secret to Making More Powerful Choices – Take the mystery out of decision-making and leave with practical tools to make choices based on what is truly important to you.
* Wake Up – To Your Life! – Discover what brings you alive and how to use that energy to pursue your dreams and desires. Wake up to YOUR life, not the life you feel you “should” be living.
* Follow Your Bliss – Gain clarity around your passions, gifts and talents and steps to find more meaningful work aligned with who you are. It truly is possible to LOVE what you do and make a living at it.
* Discover Your Life’s Purpose – Begin to discover what makes you tick, what brings you alive and what your purpose is so you can begin to live a fulfilled and meaningful life.

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Jean began her career as a Management Consultant at Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP - Now, Novell) focusing on Team Effectiveness, Operations Management and Human Resource Development. She served as the Business Operations Manager for CTP's Nordic Region of Europe collaborating with Operations, Sales and Human Resources assimilating employees into the culture and increasing team leadership and communication. She co-developed the core consulting curriculum and delivered training to over 100 new employees a month. 

Jean has worked with corporate clients across high-tech, finance, airline, insurance, retail, biotech, architecture and manufacturing and various academic institutions such as MIT, Babson College, Boston College and Brandeis University.

Her positive outlook, open style and depth of creativity allows her to immediately pinpoint issues and enable organizations and individuals to generate new ways of thinking and working.

Jean is a member of the National Speakers Association and International Coach Federation and has been published in WorldWIT, Boston Magazine and the Boston Globe. She was named one of the top 10 Coaches of Boston by Women's Business Boston in 2007 and is a contributing author to the soon-to-be-released book, “Success is a State of Mind” with Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown and Deepak Chopra.

She enjoys balancing her work with her talents as an abstract artist and jewelry designer and avid salsa dancer.

What they say about Jean M. DiGiovanna:

“I was one of the lucky beneficiaries of your presentation, and I want to acknowledge what an inspiring speaker you are!  You sent me away with not only the energy for, but a couple of plans for, creating intention and building relationships.  Invaluable.”
~ Patricia Funder, Owner Laser Light Skin Clinic

“Without question, your workshop was the best designed and conducted I have attended in the past five years.  The mix of self and dyad work, lecture, and group discussion propelled us through the workbook while allowing ample time for answering questions. Meanwhile, you’re self-assured, but accessible and friendly presence motivated at least this participant to continue working with the material you had us develop during the workshop into a marketable product in the not too distant future.”
~ Jerold A. Sinnamon, Owner, Be On Purpose Coaching & Consulting

“Jean is a dynamic and engaging leader!  Jean spoke at a recent Greater Merrimack Valley Human Resources Associations meeting on “The Power of Coaching” and the attendees found her program to be informative, pragmatic, and entertaining.  I have seen her present in other settings as well, and she is truly a talented presenter who offers seminar attendees valuable insight.”
~ Julie A. Moore, Esquire, President, Employment Practices Group

"Our experience working with Jean was extremely successful. Our firm was transitioning from largely IT Implementation work to more consultative work and Jean brought us a structured approach to Facilitation. Various project teams then engaged her in Coaching as they prepped for facilitated workshops with clients. As a result, we secured repeat business and a referral."
~ Bob Gleason, President, Riverton LLC

"The team building session Jean prepared for our Sales Team gave us a fresh view and boosted morale.  It was amazing to see the group come together during the workshop and contribute as a team.  We now have a new perspective and are taking action where we were once stopped.”
~ Susan Clark, Regional Sales Manager, The MRI Centers

Clients:

Jean M. DiGiovanna has spoken for these groups and many more:

AT&T
Avon Corporation
Boston Consulting Group
Babson College
Boston College
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Caliper Life Sciences
Celanese International
Novell
Cognizant