Elevate your leadership style.
Sharpen your leadership performance with Diana Swain, a trusted advisor who spent nearly 40 years as one of Canada’s most respected journalists, speaking to audiences nationwide and mastering the art of clear, impactful communication.
Whether working one-on-one with executives or guiding entire leadership teams, Diana Swain Strategies equips leaders with the tools to optimize their messaging, fine-tune their leadership presence, and ensure they are truly well understood.
Let us help you harness the full potential of your leadership skills and amplify your impact.
Our Services
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Diana’s one-on-one executive and C-suite coaching focuses on how your leadership style is perceived by others. What are you telegraphing, and does it align with what you intend? Drawing on her extensive experience as a broadcast journalist – both being observed by audiences and observing the thousands of people she interviewed – Diana helps leaders evaluate how they come across, understand the signals they send, and refine their presence to better communicate their intentions and leadership strengths. Coaching also involves exploring the elements of persuasive communication to ensure your messaging is clear, impactful, and truly understood by those you lead.
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Diana’s group coaching consists of half-day or full-day workshops designed to refine and elevate team dynamics. These sessions focus on how team members communicate and support each other, exploring the ways in which their messaging can be clearer, stronger, and more aligned. By drawing attention to communication habits and providing practical strategies for improvement, Diana helps teams build trust, enhance collaboration, and operate with greater clarity and cohesion.
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Consumers today seek more than just a product or service; they want to understand why they should choose you. We specialize in helping you focus, develop, and distill your company’s brand story in a way that’s authentic, and compelling, and works with future growth plans.
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In her keynote address, Your Secret Weapon: Leading with Truth, Diana explores how leaders can fill the vacuum created by today’s scarcity of truth. Drawing on decades spent uncovering and communicating facts as one of Canada’s most respected journalists, she shares why leading with honesty and clarity is more powerful than ever. Diana challenges leaders to recognise the deep trust and influence they can build when they commit to truth-telling in their messaging, decision-making, and presence – guiding their teams with confidence in an era where truth feels increasingly hard to find.
ABOUT DIANA
Diana Swain understands the unique pressures of a high-demand, high-profile role and the need to communicate calm leadership in all situations. It’s that experience that informs her executive coaching for C-suite executives.
Known for her professional presence, concise story-telling style and unflinching questions during nearly 40-years in Canadian journalism, Diana Swain now shares the benefit of her experience and insight with her clients through her company, Diana Swain Strategies. Her professional track record broadcasting to millions of Canadians speaks to the experience and expertise she draws from to help others refine their communication skills.
Every leader understands how important it is to be well-understood. Our motto speaks to the value we put in ensuring you have the tools to communicate effectively, compassionately and with authority.
Diana Swain Strategies is uniquely positioned to help Canada’s corporate leaders by sharing insights and perspectives drawn from its founder’s experience as a high-profile journalist and senior editorial leader at Canada’s largest news agency.
Let us help you to be well-understood.
