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GUIDING C-LEVEL EXECUTIVES TO GROW AND SUSTAIN RESILIENT ORGANIZATIONS

Dr. Diane Dye

Dr. Diane Dye (affectionately known by her clients as 3D) is a leadership strategist and organizational change expert who helps CEOs turn business-critical challenges into long-term competitive advantages. As CEO of People Risk Consulting, she draws on more than 20 years of executive experience and nearly a decade of focused research in change leadership and risk navigation.

She holds an EdD in Organizational Change and Leadership and a Master’s in Communication Management from the University of Southern California. Her research explores how crisis, psychological safety, and innovation intersect to drive sustainable business performance.

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The percentage of top innovators who have a structured innovation strategy – Do you? (PWC)

THE MESSAGE

Your Strategic Lever for Innovation is 3D

Dr. Diane Dye (3D) helps your company develop core resilience and innovation strategies with depth, dimension, and a dynamic delivery system that makes her consulting highly accessible and easily consumable.

Dr. Diane Dye develops research-backed frameworks that enhance organizational resilience to drive safety, productivity, innovation, organizational transformation, and profitability. She helps leaders surface performance issues, eliminate hidden risks, and create systems that support sustainable success.

Diane’s Mission

To help executives make bold, informed decisions by mastering uncertainty—and turning challenge and crisis into innovation.

The Results

Brave organizations that thrive in the face of uncertainty, increased resilience, sustained profitability, and inspired executives.

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Diane’s Publications

ENHANCE YOUR SKILLS

People Risk Consulting Training Center

Tap into the power of 3D frameworks to work through real business problems—fast.

Turn pressure points into sustainable growth. You’ll walk away with a clearer perspective, actionable steps, and a renewed sense of control. Enroll now.

WORKBOOK

Creating Critical Opportunity

A workbook to help you innovate and create opportunity out of any problem, challenge, or crisis.
The first edition Creating Critical Opportunity workbook (2020) is available in Kindle and print formats on Amazon.com.

COLLABORATIVE BOOK

Reno Rising

You Have to Fall Before You Rise
3D’s collaborative project with 14 Reno women who thrived through adversity. Diane doesn’t just teach business resilience, she has lived it. Reno Rising is a vulnerable look into how accidentally moving to Carson City acted as a springboard for her life.

ACADEMIC DISSERTATION

Disclosure of Abuse to Empowerment

Exploring Psychological Safety as a Leadership Tool to Support Women Struggling with Workplace Performance
Published under her legal name, Dr. Diane Dye’s dissertation explores 1:1 relationships that inspire sensitive disclosures.

CONVERSATIONS

Expert Interviews

SEE ALL 3D’S VIDEOS
Stewardship, Trust, Advocacy, Responsibility, and Teamwork in Leadership
Embracing the Future: Are You AI Adoption Ready?
Psychological Safety and CX
Customer Churn Risk, Voice of the Customer (VoC), and Customer Data
Risk Management Framework: People Risk Consulting: ID Disclosure Model
Embracing Change: From Open Door Policies to Genuine Leadership
WHAT’S NEXT

Using Her Voice to Elevate You

Diane has some big goals for 2025. If you are interested in helping her along her mission or would like her to comment in the media, speak at your conference or work with your organization, connect with her. Here are some of her goals (to be revised as achieved).

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TRAINING COURSES

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CONFERENCES

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TESTIMONIALS

Diane’s Reviews

Working with Diane has been a transformative experience for our organization. Her ability to connect with people at their core is a rare gift, and it’s one that leaves a lasting impact.

Tarique Jawed

CEO, LOT SQUARED DEVELOPMENT

Executives need a best friend in business, someone who can offer a different perspective than what is producible within the organization. That’s Diane.

Ester Quilici

CEO, VITALITY UNLIMITED

Client Stories of Revenue Loss and Crisis

Alexandra’s marketing team was facing a crisis. As Global Head of Brand and Marketing, she had an impossible timeline—her organization needed to tackle a significant transformation in record time. The usual consulting approaches wouldn’t work. They needed someone who could deliver rapid, lasting change without disrupting their core culture.

Meanwhile, Tarique was watching his client organizations struggle with problems unique to growing businesses. As Principal at Lot Squared Development, he’d seen countless small and medium-sized companies hit operational walls that traditional consulting couldn’t solve. They needed solutions that addressed complex organizational dynamics while preserving what made them successful.

Across the industry, Darren was witnessing organizations make the same costly mistake—implementing solutions that looked good on paper but failed because they didn’t account for the human side of change. Companies were losing millions on failed transformations because they focused on systems while ignoring stakeholder buy-in.

Reviews Prove Results

Alexandra’s Discovery: “Dr. Dye prepared a fantastic workshop and resources for my team on very short notice and helped us tackle a significant change in record time. She brings a wealth of knowledge around change management, communications and psychology to her work.”

Tarique’s Experience: “Diane is a truly exceptional professional with a remarkable talent for understanding people on a deeper level. From the very start, Diane demonstrated an uncanny knack for quickly understanding our team’s dynamics and identifying the unique potential in each person. This ability to see beyond the obvious has transformed the way we work together and elevated our team’s performance to new heights.”

Darren’s Observation: “Diane takes a unique approach to requirements collection and manages the risk involved when sourcing solutions by considering the multi-faceted needs of the whole organization. This people-centric approach to closing systems gaps builds stakeholder-centricity and change management into the process.”

What Sets 3-D Apart

Systems Thinking with Human Understanding: Rather than implementing solutions in isolation, she considers “the multi-faceted needs of the whole organization.” Her approach ensures that technical solutions align with organizational culture and human psychology.

Front-Loaded Change Management: Instead of treating change management as an afterthought, she “builds stakeholder-centricity and change management into the process up front, during the search for solutions.” This dramatically increases implementation success rates.

Culture-Preserving Innovation: Her consulting process “caters to every need of her clients while keeping the culture intact and untouched.” Organizations get the transformation they need without losing what makes them unique.

Proven Track Record: “She consistently brings the best talent and service to the table” with “high-impact solutions through data-driven research methodologies.”

Risk Mitigation: Her approach “manages the risk involved when sourcing solutions” by addressing both technical and human factors upfront.

Trusted Partnership: “Customers readily renew when they are working with Diane. We eagerly refer client projects to Diane and her firm to bid because she consistently brings the best talent and service to the table.”

Measurable Results Matter

Speed of Implementation: Organizations report achieving “significant change in record time” because resistance is minimized through her people-centric approach.

Adoption Success: “This approach makes it easier for clients to implement the developed or out-of-the-box solutions we provide and accelerates customer time to value.”

Sustainable Change: Unlike traditional consulting that delivers reports, Dr. Diane’s approach creates lasting transformation because “she maintains deep and meaningful relationships with clients which helps them approach her as a trusted advisor when needed.”

ROI Excellence: Organizations experience “less time and energy spent in ramp-up and more time realizing value from their chosen solutions.”

The Competitive Advantage of Working with 3-D

Organizations working with Dr. Diane gain a critical edge in today’s transformation-heavy business environment. While their competitors struggle with failed change initiatives and cultural resistance, her clients achieve:

Faster implementation timelines
Higher adoption rates
Preserved organizational culture
Sustainable competitive advantages
Measurable ROI on transformation investments

The transformation is systematic. The results are measurable. And the competitive advantage is lasting.

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