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Desi Payne KEYNOTE SPEAKER

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Keynote Speaker at Salem Speakers Bureau
📍 Ottumwa, Iowa, United States

Desi Payne is an international keynote speaker and expert on workplace culture, focusing on stress management and team engagement. Leveraging her 25-year hospital career and DISC certification, she helps professionals overcome burnout. People often describe her as energetic, inspiring, engaging, and funny.

Desi is a breast cancer survivor and author of three books on stress and workplace culture. She hosts "The Energized Leader" podcast and is a regular guest on the "Hello Iowa! " lifestyle show. She is married with two adult children.

Unique fact: Desi is an award-winning entertainer and professional clown who directed a hospitals Humor Therapy department for nearly three decades and once won 3rd place on "Americas Funniest Home Videos".

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Experience
28 Years
Current Role
Keynote Speaker
Location
Ottumwa, Iowa, United States
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Positive Workplace Culture
Her core mission is helping leaders and teams create positive, energized work environments by overcoming negativity and burnout.
Leadership Development
As a certified John Maxwell Trainer, she focuses on equipping leaders with tools to connect with and value their teams, believing everything rises and falls on leadership.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Keynote Speaker
Salem Speakers Bureau
7-2025
Keynote Speaker
A-Speakers
1-2018
Motivational Keynote Speaker
Midwest Speakers Bureau, Inc.
9-1998
Motivational Speaker & Trainer
CDNE, Inc.
1998
Speaker and Trainer
CDNE, Inc.
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John Maxwell University, William Penn University, Indian Hills Community College
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