2023 DCLPB Keynote Speaker
Diane Paddison
Founder of 4Word
Author of Work, Love, Pray and Be Refreshed
a year of devotions for women in the workplace
About Diane Paddison
4word Founder, an organization that has served over 900,000 Christian women in the workplace since she founded 4word in 2011. She is a Harvard MBA, former global executive of two Fortune 500 companies CBRE and ProLogis and one Fortune 1000 company, Trammell Crow Company, and serves as an independent director for one public corporate and four not-for-profit boards. Diane is a leading advocate for Christian women in the workplace. Diane published Work, Love, Pray in 2011, laying the foundation for 4word and Be Refreshed . . . a year of devotions for women in the workplace in 2017. She authors posts at 4wordwomen.org and is a featured columnist for The Washington Times. Diane and her husband, Chris, have four adult children and two grandchildren and live in Dallas, Texas.