Short Bio

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Diane O’Connell is an author, speaker, coach, workplace culture reinvention strategist and attorney and mediator. After being diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Diane left the practice of law to focus on helping businesses create measurable success, reduce risk and improve profitability with a workplace culture of wellbeing that works.

Medium Bio

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Diane O’Connell is an author, speaker, coach, workplace culture reinvention strategist, attorney and mediator. After being diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Diane left the practice of law to focus on helping businesses create measurable success, reduce risk and improve profitability with a workplace culture of wellbeing that works. She practiced law for over 18 years focused on international business development risk management, negotiations and commercial mediation and has a commercial and practical approach to workplace wellbeing generates results for businesses while making employees more productive and happy.

Long Bio

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Diane O’Connell is an author, speaker, coach, workplace culture reinvention strategist, attorney and mediator. After being diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Diane left the practice of law to focus on why creating a workplace culture of wellbeing is so elusive, and how workplace wellbeing initiatives are generally inadequate, as they don’t address the core issue of how to create a culture of wellbeing that is effective for individual staff and has measurable results for the business.

Diane is on a mission to annihilate the belief that mental health, wellbeing and belonging are “soft” topics by demonstrating the business case that will empower business leaders to realize measurable successes that reduce risk, improve profitability, and provide results that can be clearly reported for ESG, CSR & DEI purposes.

By combining her experience as an attorney and leader in international business development risk management, and an individual who has endured toxic work environments, Diane’s commercial and practical approach to workplace wellbeing generates results for businesses while making employees more productive & happy.

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Diane is a leader in the New York State Bar Association, a Stability Network Leader, is on the InsideOut Leaderboard and is active in the Mindful Business Charter and Wellbeing at Work Global, just to name a few. She is an advocate for mental wellbeing, diversity and inclusion and has written articles on these topics. Diane also works with organizations worldwide to increase awareness of mental wellbeing and belonging and hopes that one day we will all be just a bit kinder to each other.