DAC 2013: Diana Bishop – Packaging Your Expertise for the 21st Century

Can you package your expertise? Can you bring value to your professional practice by better understanding what your personal and business brand is all about? What is your unique ability?

Everyone can create a name for themselves to better communicate their expertise as a brand. What’s yours? What’s your teams? How do you establish it? You have to take the most complicated information and boil it down into something palatable. This personal branding expert will show you, through her own dynamic and entertaining story.

Distinguished Speaker:
Diana Bishop

Diana Bishop is the creator of The Success Story Program™ which helps leaders in Business, Politics, Law, Healthcare and Not For Profit organizations shape their identities, raise their profiles and become confident and authentic communicators and specialists in their fields.

In her more than 20 years as a TV news correspondent, Diana Bishop has had a journalism career that has taken her far and wide. As a result, Diana has established an impressive network of global contacts.

She has interviewed presidents and prime ministers, covered major national and international news events and specialized in the internal workings of Canadian politics and foreign policy.

After cutting her teeth with CBC News in Montreal and Quebec City in the 80's, Diana was snapped up by CTV National News in 1989 to become a National Political Correspondent in Ottawa where she filed news and did live reports on the Meech Lake constitutional crisis, the Oka Indian crisis, Commonwealth and Francophone Summits, visits by Russian President Boris Yeltsin, US President George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela's first trip abroad, as well as traveled with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney across Canada, the US, France and Africa.

In 1992, Diana was posted as Beijing Bureau Chief, making history as CTV's first full-time female foreign correspondent.

In CTV's affiliation with ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Diana filed more than 100 news reports and current affairs documentaries on Chinese politics, human rights, and China's economic and social revolution, as well as Prime Minister Jean Chretien's first Team Canada business tour in 1994 to Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Jakarta and Hanoi. Diana's work in China earned her a Gemini nomination in 1995 for best reportage.

Then NBC News came knocking and Diana spent an additional year in China rebuilding the NBC News bureau and running Asia coverage for Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Weekend Nightly, the Today Show and Meet the Press.

In 1997, Diana returned as a Senior Parliamentary Correspondent first for CTV News in Ottawa where she made regular contributions to W5, Sunday Edition with Mike Duffy and anchored Canada AM Weekend and CTV NewsNet. In 1999, Diana moved to Global Television where she travelled with Jean Chretien to international summits like the G8, as well as covered his 2000 federal re-election campaign.

Diana has also produced several documentaries, and most recently wrote, narrated and produced a one-hour documentary for Global Television entitled A Hero To Me exploring the legacy of her famous grandfather and Canadian icon World War One flying ace Billy Bishop.

Join Knowledge Bureau, Diana Bishop, and other Distinguished Speakers at our Distinguished Advisor Conference, November 10-13, 2013 in Ojai, California. Early bird deadline extended: Register by July 15.