Christine Dumas

Christine Dumas Speaker Biography

Health and Lifestyle Reporter and Author

Christine Dumas is a consumer/health /lifestyle reporter, strategic consumer trends advisor and author. Since 1996, her stories have appeared on NBC News Today and NBC News Weekend Edition Today. She has also been a regularly featured medical correspondent on Fox News Channel’s Weekend Live since 2003.

Health Advisor

Christine Dumas has been the national spokesperson for Kellogg’s Healthy Beginnings campaign and currently serves as a senior adviser to the Center for Health Transformation in Washington, DC. In addition to her clinical training, she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from UCLA and has been called upon as an advisor to Congressional committees addressing lifestyle issues that matter most among American families. Her insight and Washington experience among politicians, policy and watchdog groups as well as industry organizations makes her perspective increasingly valuable in this rapidly changing marketplace.

Consumer Trends Expert

As an expert in consumer trends, Christine Dumas has advised domestic and multi-national brands on message, product positioning and tactical outreach. Companies utilize her skills, warmth and demeanor due to her connection with a wide demographic, contact with well over a quarter of a million women and also, because of one prime keyword affiliation: trust. Consumers across the country have bonded with Dumas listening to her sage recommendations, knowing it originates from someone who understands them, their lifestyle and their needs. She holds an unparalleled position in this capacity, and is considered one of the key connectors to “gatekeeper moms,” viewed by many as their primary demographic. Dumas stands alone as someone who can interpret trends, navigate a path for success and help reach a target audience as well as financial goals.

Keynote Speaker

Each speech delivered by keynote speaker Christine Dumas is unique. As a result, she creates special appeal and a value added component for both organizers and attendees with unparalleled satisfaction. Her appearance is further complemented by her extended one-on-one post meeting gatherings. Many feel working with her is both an investment and beginning of an extended relationship for them and their clients.

Health Correspondent

Dumas started her broadcasting career as a health correspondent on ABC’s Home Show and was also featured in a similar role for Home and Family. She also makes guest appearances on both The Oprah Winfrey Show and The View.

Books

Dumas’ 2010 book, The Weight is Over, showcases the many facets of her expertise. She addresses the breakthrough science and advances surrounding sleep, stress and weight loss while contradicting common themes about fat, carbohydrates and exercise. She connects the dots, provides the real answers and a simple path to the healthy lifestyle everyone wants but always seems to be out of reach. The Weight is Over will transform everyone’s relationship with food and health allowing them to relax, enjoy and understand the breaking edge information they need to transform their bodies and their lives.

Affiliations

Dumas delivered the keynote address for the Speaking of Women’s Health National Tour, where she covered the latest trends in health, lifestyle and fitness, while delivering that message to thousands of women across the United States. She has also served as a national spokesperson and strategic planning consultant for the American Medical Association’s Women’s Health Campaign and the National Tobacco-Free Steering Committee for the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute. She serves on the senior faculty of the American Medical Association’s Health Broadcasting Conference, providing counsel and advice to some of the most well-known officials and experts communicating with the public. She is one of the nation’s foremost experts and thought leaders on employee wellness and high quality healthcare transformation for our nation’s corporations and for all Americans in the workplace setting and at home.

Unique Perspective

Dumas has spent a over a decade reporting on trends in health, lifestyle, fitness and sports giving her a leading-edge perspective that is sought-after by Fortune 500 corporations, think tank associations and group forums, such as The California Governor and First Lady’s Conference on Women and Families. Her background and broad-based career experience give her a unique perspective that resonates with audiences. She has covered a broad range of issues in her reporting-from profiling athletes to legal issues surrounding drugs that are unsafe for children-all with unparalleled intensity, commitment and compassion.

Christine Dumas Speaking Topics

Healthcare Transformation 3.0- From Artificial Intelligence to Brand Authenticity

Dr. Christine Dumas – television medical reporter, economist, author and senior advisor for the Center for Health Transformation, founded by Speaker Newt Gingrich – puts you at the center of healthcare’s new frontier where medicine, big data, artificial intelligence, consumer engagement and medical economics are converging with unprecedented speed and intensity. Data, combined with empathic engagement, is rapidly becoming the currency of modern medicine. In this exciting course, Dr. Christine lays the groundwork for understanding how new types of data, artificial intelligence, and consumer engagement will change the way we discover medicines, treat patients and save lives. In the same way that retail, financial services, entertainment, and virtually all other industries have been reshaped by data and analytics, they are now reshaping health care, as well. Data and artificial intelligence are becoming the drivers of higher-quality, more cost-effective decision-making in healthcare and they required to take today’s healthcare companies toward heightened levels of valuation, performance, and profitability. As we transition to this new world of data-driven medicine, patients will be empowered to take a far more active role in their own healthcare decisions. Consumers of healthcare today want to engage with healthcare brands that have purpose and a story. Bringing that brand purpose to life through storytelling is becoming an increasingly critical business competency in this new landscape of healthcare delivery. If you want a glimpse into the future, this course will give you the definitive playbook to elevate performance and achieve unparalleled patient experiences and outcomes. The stakes could not be any higher, and this course can serve as your guide for navigating the new healthcare frontier.

Transformational Healthcare - How Business Leaders Can Get Ahead of the Curve in a Post- Healthcare Reform World

In the post-reform world of healthcare, American businesses will be among the most heavily impacted by the new legislation. From new regulations and compliance issues to dealing with potential caps on premiums, many businesses may already be significantly behind the curve on managing the impact to their business and to their employees. In this presentation, Christine Dumas can help you navigate the complexities of this new legislation and share with your human resource and business leaders what they need to do now to prepare for the coming change. Our country is at a critical juncture regarding the health of our citizens and the transformation of our health care system as a result of the passage of healthcare reform legislation. As research and science lead to groundbreaking cures and new live-saving treatments, doctors, patients, human resource and health care administrators are all increasingly frustrated by the factors that drive up costs and limit the availability of the highest quality, state of the art health care. Drawing on her experience as a nationally recognized medical correspondent with a degree in Economics, a nationally recognized expert on corporate workplace wellness and as a senior advisor to the Center for Health Transformation in Washington DC, Dr. Christine Dumas covers the leading edge trends in the U.S. health care system and the changes that will come as a result of the new legislation. She covers how these trends will transform our health care system and the role that corporate America will play. What Christine knows from her years covering healthcare is that promoting better health means more than just passing new healthcare legislation. To get a healthier America and a healthier workforce we need to transform the way Americans think about their health. She discusses a leadership-driven model for a healthcare system of the future that we can embark on today - one that is patient-centered and rich in innovation. She outlines in detail what the American consumer really wants from their healthcare experiences. She provides her audiences with insight on the critical issues that business leaders and human resource managers will face when dealing with the new healthcare landscape as a result of the new legislation, while outlining specific trends that will lead to better care and a healthier America.

Brand Authenticity and Brand Building

Dr. Christine’s industry focus as a brand strategist and brand ambassador in life sciences, consumer brands, and the financial marketplace gives her a unique perspective that is invaluable in today’s rapidly changing business environment. We are in an entirely new environment where businesses need to compete and be able to emotionally engage with their customers and their employees. Today, consumer decisions are driven by the “brand experience” and these experiences are defining success in the marketplace and having a direct impact on valuation and investor confidence. In this course, Dr. Christine shows how to apply the strategic media and brand building principles she has gained from her experience working with Fortune 500 companies. In her work with Procter and Gamble, she launched one of the most successful, disruptive innovation brands in Procter and Gamble history – Crest Whitestrips – which is now one of their most popular brands, bringing in over $250 million in revenues per year. She will share how to most effectively communicate brand value propositions for companies to the key audiences that can have the greatest impact on their success – media, consumers, investors and industry stakeholders. Consumers today want to engage with brands that have purpose and a story. They want to be part of something with meaning that matters. Storytelling is an increasingly critical component of success. In this course, Dr. Christine will show you how to bring your brand purpose to life by emotionally engaging with consumers with empathic storytelling while taking your brand toward heightened levels of valuation, performance, and profitability.

Transformational Healthcare for the Future

The changing world of health care, and deciding how to best deliver it in the future is increasingly a headline news story. Public policy debates on which direction to go often lead to confusing end results. Transformational health care solutions that can provide patient centered, world class quality care at a lower cost are the way to go – with better quality of life and better health outcomes for all. Healthcare television correspondent and healthcare futurist, Dr. Christine Dumas offers exciting ideas that will transform the way you look at the future of healthcare.

Creating Your Best Life

In her refreshingly entertaining and straightforward style, Christine Dumas shares the candid advice that has motivated her throughout her career, inspiring audiences to take charge of their life, career, health and happiness. Drive, determination and knowing where you want life to take you are part of the equation for success. At each step of the way, Dumas emphasizes the importance of never letting traditional expectations keep you from having your preferred life -- one that is custom-made for you. To say that she thinks "outside the box" doesn't begin to describe her intuitive, innovative and entertaining presentation for everything from financing a college education to a business, to doing whatever you feel passionate about, to seamlessly changing course in life as opportunities present themselves -- allowing you to create the very best life possible. Your audience will be entertained and inspired with a memorable presentation that will change the lives of those in attendance.

Building Your Strongest Brand - Successfully Reaching Women Across America and the Blogosphere

Today’s businesses require visionary strategies that quickly respond to rapidly changing conditions and intense competition─especially among the trillion dollar “mom market.” Find out what this demographic thinks, needs and desires as Christine Dumas discusses her connections among women utilizing her expertise as a national television correspondent, author and trends specialist. With her engaging insight, witty commentary and successful web outreach, she shows Fortune 500 companies and consumer brands how to turn occasional shoppers into profitable brand ambassadors while simultaneously improving their bottom line. Whether you are building a new brand or reinventing an existing brand, you will take away important lessons to better understand the women who can build your brand from one of America’s most trusted television personalities.