KATE'S BIO
Kate Driesen is President of Driesen Communication.

"Kate has a wonderful and magnetic way of engaging and energizing her seminar participants. Her grasp of Leadership and Communication principles is remarkable and she shows how to practically apply the principles she teaches."

- Christine Nagy
COCC

"Just heard from the HR Director. Managers said you were 'wonderful', 'interesting', 'energetic' and 'really believed in what she said'."

- Ann Ives
Educator’s Network

Kate specializes in training leaders, up-and-coming leaders and managers in leadership skills that will ultimately affect their job performance, career path and personal life.  She is also an acknowledged expert in, and teaches, presentation, interpersonal and team communication skills.

Kate has trained over five thousand participants in her twenty-year career.  She has worked with companies large and small, global and domestic. She works effectively with multicultural groups including those from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Middle East, Africa, Russia, South America, India and China. Because of her global experience, Kate brings a unique ability to promote collaboration among diverse nationalities.

Kate’s spirited style and unique ability to establish immediate rapport with participants at all levels of the organization is a hallmark of her training style.

Major clients include Schlumberger, Stop and Shop (Ahold Corporation), Mass Mutual, Medimmune, Toyota, GenRe, American Management Association, Management Center Europe, New York-New Jersey Port Authority and Reebok.

Before forming her own consulting company, Kate enjoyed a varied and successful career as the marketing and training director of The Canfield Group, a Cultural-Liaison (Micronesia) for South Pacific Fisheries and the manager of the Temporary Division of Hamilton Systems.  Previously, Kate enjoyed success in stage, movies and T.V.

Ms. Driesen has received certification as a Self-Esteem Trainer, Gender Speak Trainer, Insight Inventory and she is MBTI certified.  Kate is the female voice on the original recording of Jack Canfield’s “Chicken Soup for the Soul”.

 


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