During the last two decades, Diane Riedel has gained significant insights and valuable experience in the field of corporate communications, across the corporate and consulting worlds. She has strong communication expertise, from creation and implementation of communication strategies to the daily handling of press contacts and social media, underpinned by an extensive knowledge of company and brand building.
Before starting her own consulting business in 2003, Diane was Company Spokesperson and Head of Corporate Communications for Walt Disney Television and the Disney Channel. She was responsible for the communications activities for the Disney television brands and she was a key player during the launch of the Disney Channel in the German-speaking countries. Prior to Disney, she was part of the core team responsible for the build-up of the Pay-TV network Sky, as a PR Manager for the German-speaking countries.
Diane studied in Germany and the US and holds a Master’s Degree in Communications from the University of Munich, Germany, where she graduated with distinction. During her studies, she also worked as a freelance writer for the career section of Cosmopolitan magazine and as an Assistant Consultant at Roland Berger International Management Consultants. Through her work in PR and journalism in London and New York she deepened her international professional experience. Diane is fluent in German, English, French and Italian.
Currently, in addition to her consulting work, she occasionally gives lectures at institutions such as the Universities of Munich and Goettingen, the Munich Media Days, BAW Bavarian Academy for Business Communication and the Hanns Seidel Foundation. She also contributes to PR-related publications.
Diane has a long experience of helping organisations to develop their networks. She hosts her regular “redlich kommunikation Events” at Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, where she gathers personally invited guests to create a think tank space for people from the cultural, media, business and political circles.
