Diane Dillon

Diane Dillon has leveraged her 25 years of marketing, branding, growth strategy, innovation, and video production to add value to clients, teams and executive boards across a wide range of businesses.  As founder and principal of Addison Communications, LLC. Diane has been instrumental in guiding businesses in the strategies and processes necessary to take them to their next level of performance from start-up, to mid-sized, to Fortune 500.  Additionally, Diane is the spokesperson for the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, delivering news that affects the hospitality sector in an award-winning monthly video series, “News You Can Use”. Diane works with clients in hospitality, health care, finance, and manufacturing.  Previously, Diane served as Vice President of Communications for O’Charley’s restaurants in Nashville, Tennessee, and Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Ninety Nine Restaurant group in Woburn, MA.  She was instrumental working with the leadership teams in the merging of the two companies, with close to a $1 Billion in sales.

Diane has been honored with twelve Telly Awards for being a producer, host, and voiceover talent. She has studied at Dale Carnegie and Coach University. She was also nominated for Citizen of the Year for her charity work. Through the years, Diane has been an advisor to three tech start-up companies, two of which have been acquired.

Diane has her MBA from Northeastern University and her Bachelor of Science from Temple University.  Diane looks forward to sharing her “out of the box thinking” teaching   Disruption & Innovation in the master’s program.