Tuesday, June 6, 2017 | 8:15AM - 9:35AM | Room: Coquina Ballroom  |   General Session

The Proven Path to Gain Gravitas in a Demanding World As an investor relations professional, you have the opportunity to influence the strategic direction of your company. You're faced with new demands every day that impact your organization's profitable growth along with the mindset of your leadership team and board. In order to be viewed as a respected advisor when you deliver potentially unpopular recommendations, you must influence with integrity and gravitas.

During this session, Connie Dieken, president of The Dieken Group, will pinpoint how and why you gain and lose influence. She'll challenge the status quo of what influence means and what separates it from the other ways that you try to make things happen. Most importantly, this session is interactive. In your time together, Connie will guide you to build an influential message that you can deliver to the most challenging person in your world. Connie is a trusted advisor to many C-suite executives who lead the world's largest brands.

Her firm, The Dieken Group, is a global research, consulting, and senior executive coaching company. Her clients achieve unprecedented growth in both their daily routines and turbulent times, mastering how to successfully deal with difficult people, unanticipated issues, and public scrutiny. A five-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and author of two business bestsellers, Talk Less, Say More and Become the Real Deal, she is also the founder of Infuence360º, the world’s first validated influence metric that identifies your influence style and advises you how to build on it. Connie welcomes you to take the assessment at www.Infuence360.com. She's excited to share her experiences and savvy with you at the 2017 NIRI Annual Conference.