
Diane Sieg
RN, CSP, CYT
CO, USCreator of the Resilience Academy, Diane Sieg spent 23 years working as an ER nurse in hospitals across the country. Today, as a resilience speaker, author, coach, and champion, Diane teaches healthcare organizations how to create resilient cultures through her keynotes, half-day or full-day seminars, resilience challenges, retreats, and coaching at the individual, department, and organizational level. She is the author of two books, STOP Living Life Like an Emergency! Rescue Strategies for the Overworked and Overwhelmed and 30 Days to Grace; A Daily Practice to Achieve Your Ultimate Goals. There is always chaos in healthcare and resilience is the teachable, effective, game-changing antidote. Diane teaches the resilience skills needed to cope with burnout, stress, and disengagement, helping healthcare workers restore joy, meaning, and connection to their noble work.
Creator of the Resilience Academy, Diane Sieg spent 23 years working as an ER nurse in hospitals across the country. Today, as a resilience speaker, author, coach, and champion, Diane teaches healthcare organizations how to create resilient cultures through her keynotes, half-day or full-day seminars, resilience challenges, retreats, and coaching at the individual, department, and organizational level. She is the author of two books, STOP Living Life Like an Emergency! Rescue Strategies for the Overworked and Overwhelmed and 30 Days to Grace; A Daily Practice to Achieve Your Ultimate Goals. There is always chaos in healthcare and resilience is the teachable, effective, game-changing antidote. Diane teaches the resilience skills needed to cope with burnout, stress, and disengagement, helping healthcare workers restore joy, meaning, and connection to their noble work.
Leading with Resilience in Challenging Times
Chaos to CALM with Resilience
Chaos in healthcare today impacts all healthcare workers. While we can't do anything about the current healthcare crisis, there are teachable skills that can keep you focused, productive, and resilient by being calmer in the face of chaos. Without resilience, people become overwhelmed, make more mistakes, take longer to do things, and become physically and emotionally exhausted --all expensive in human and financial costs. Chaos to Calm teaches specific, practical skills such as...
Self-Leadership in a Pandemic (and Every Other Crisis)
The current crisis in healthcare exposes all of our vulnerabilities, requiring us to slow down, evaluate, and improve our systems professionally and personally. Powerful, effective leadership is needed today more than ever, and the most effective leaders know how to lead themselves first. By practicing self-leadership, they empower their colleagues, teams, and organizations which is critical during times of crisis. Self-leadership is a unique set of skills and behaviors that include trust,...
Building Resilience with Compassion
There is a "compassion crisis" in healthcare today with a great paradox. While healthcare is inherently compassionate, the very connection we need to make to be effective caregivers can cause stress and burnout, undermining our ability to be compassionate. The solution to this paradox lies in understanding the critical differences between compassion, empathy, and sympathy. Understanding those differences improves patient outcomes, engages the caregiver, and drives hospital revenues. The...
Physician Burnout: What You Can Do NOW
According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, we lose 300-400 physicians by suicide each year. Physicians struggle to maintain the value and joy that brought them to medicine, resulting in record-high burnout. Today, doctors are called upon to be both technical and clinical superheroes, while burdened with more responsibilities and pressures--taking a toll. Most doctors are hesitant to seek out support and unfortunately the practices that could help them are just...

