Dr. Diane Hodges has a passion for education – everything we want it to do and everything it is designed to do. An authority on improving education at many levels, she is also an irresistibly upbeat, polished and professional speaker on those issues that matter most – in your school.

An award-winning career educator for more than 25 years, Diane has served as a Human Resources Director, Principal, Counselor, University Instructor, Director of Instructional Services, and Executive Director of Career and Technical Education. In 1998 she founded the Threshold Group, an international consulting firm specializing in staff training and development. She is the author of five highly acclaimed books that have become must-reads at schools and organizations across the country.

Diane is a national expert on staff dynamics, development and training. Like educators everywhere, she is all too aware that staff recruitment and retention are critical issues facing school districts today.

Her latest book and presentation series - Looking Forward to Monday Morning - is packed with ideas you can use immediately to make your school the kind of place where you and your colleagues want to be – and stay! Over a period of five years, with the help of fellow educators nationwide, she compiled hundreds of simple, fun, low-cost ways to give staff members what it turns out they want most – simple recognition and appreciation for a job well done! The results across the nation have been nothing less than astonishing!

Diane is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on portfolios and personal "sales" tools, for both high school and college students. She now trains thousands of educators, students, and individuals internationally on how to use her Student Managed Portfolio System and Your Professional Portfolio: A "Visual" Résumé.

Solidly grounded on every count, Diane brilliantly blends her vast experience in the day-to-day realities of running a school with the equally important business of making that school a great place to learn and work – to create the results we all want most from education!