DIANE M. CATE Santa Rosa CA 95404 707-579-3008 Email: Diane@DianeCate.com

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

1979 to 2011
Management Consultant
Professional Managememt and Marketing
As a Business/Practice Management Consultant, I have consulted with a wide variety of small to large health care businesses/programs/practices assisting in 1) improving patient services; 2) increasing gross and net profits; and 3) creating groups.
I have assisted the growth and success of many mature and start-up businesses; developed business plans; and assisted in implementation of plans. I assessed and made recommendations on efficiency and effectiveness, personnel management and training, recall and follow-up systems, scheduling, budgeting, marketing, gathering of statistics, customer and employee retention, as well as many other aspects of management and marketing. While with P.M.M. I have published many articles for professional publications, presented many successful seminars and received numerous letters of reference/thank you letters from physicians, groups of physicians and their staffs.

1979 to 1990
Fitness Industry
I taught exercise classes and trained other instructors in aerobic exercise, class presentation techniques etc. I have taught a variety of "styles", have taught from 3 to 10 classes per week, and find that being active keeps me healthy and lowers my stress. Class sizes varied from 1 to 300 participants with ages of participants ranging from 8 to 68.

1998 to Present
Fashion Industry
Weekenders Fashion Coordinator

Special Skills
Advanced contract/agreement negotiating skills; extensive managed care education, knowledge and experience; business plan development, financial projections, and implementation; broad-based experience in health care sales, marketing, statistics gathering-and-analysis; budgeting and forecasting; specialized expertise in health care practice management, time management analysis, survey development, data presentation and interpretation; unique training and experience in bringing physicians to decision and action, as well as effective facilitator of change. Advanced skills in training of trainers and development of training programs for professionals