Diana Renner

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About Diana Renner

Diana is an educator, consultant and award winning author. In her work Diana weaves together a range of disciplines including Adaptive Leadership, Complexity Theory and Adult Development to help people become better leaders and make a positive impact in the world around them. She believes that leadership is an activity that anyone can engage in, regardless of background or position. Diana has taught on a variety of leadership programs, including as a guest faculty member with Harvard University Kennedy School of Government for ‘The Art & Practice of Leadership Development’; Social Leadership Australia's adaptive leadership programs, including 'Sydney Leadership'​; The University of Adelaide and The University of Texas LBJ School of Government’s ‘Transformative Leadership’; and Leadership Victoria’s ‘Adaptive Leadership Masterclasses with Marty Linsky’. Diana is co-author of ‘Not Knowing: the art of turning uncertainty into opportunity’ published by LID Publishing, London and launched at Harvard University in May 2014. Writing the book she was inspired by her experience fleeing her country of birth, Romania, in 1987 to an unknown future in a new country and the process of continuous professional reinvention covering the fields of law, marketing, refugee advocacy and leadership development.'Not Knowing' won the Chartered Management Institute 'Book of the Year' award in the U.K. The book has been translated in more than ten languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Simple and Complex Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Swedish and Romanian. Diana's second book,'Not Doing: the art of effortless action' was published in March 2018 and has been translated in more than five languages, including Complex Chinese, Japanese and Russian.