Subscribe

eNewsletter

Ready to get certified?

Free CDCES Coach App

Diabetes Education Services 25 years anniversary logo

Download

Free Med Pocket Cards

Coach Beverly – Speaker, Author, Educator

Invite Coach Bev to Your Next Event:

  • Increase engagement through person-centered diabetes strategies
  • Strengthen connections and team resilience
  • Translate evidence into meaningful, real-world practice with clarity and purpose
  • Integrate creativity and fun for healthcare staff well-being

Coach Bev specializes in diabetes and healthcare wellbeing

Contact Coach Bev to Book an Event

You can also Email [email protected] or call (530) 893-8635

Keynote & Presentation Topics Include:

  • Healing through Connection for Healthcare Professionals
  • Beyond the Rhinestones: What Dolly Can Teach Us About Diabetes Care
  • Standards of Care Intensive: ADA & AACE Updates
  • How to Enter the Field of Diabetes Education and Achieve CDCES or BC-ADM Certification
  • From the Gut to the Butt: Exploring the GI System and Diabetes & more
  • Full Day Presentations:
  • ADA & AACE Standards Boot Camp - Team-taught by Coach Beverly and Diana Isaacs, PharmD, BC-ADM, CDCES
  • Hospitals & Hyperglycemia: From Admission to Discharge
  • Diabetes: From the Basics and Beyond - Providing Evidence-Based, Person Centered Care & more

Feel free to request any topics not listed!

Keynote Presentations

Virtual Presentations

Personalized Staff Meetings

Certification Prep

Looking for a speaker who can deliver evidence-based diabetes education with energy, heart, and a dose of fun?
Coach Beverly loves teaching in person, connecting with healthcare professionals, and transforming complex diabetes science into practical strategies clinicians can use right away. Whether you are looking for an inspiring 30–90 minute keynote or an immersive full-day diabetes training, Coach Beverly can customize the experience for your audience.

Coach Bev giving a Keynote Speach at the 2025 Alaska Native Diabetes Conference

What Attendees are Saying about Coach Bev's Keynotes

Beverly Thomassian is an inspiration! I really enjoyed her presentation because it was very insightful, informative and relatable. She is also very engaging and knowledgeable about Diabetes.
Loved the presenter's delivery and information!
Very interesting and creative speaker. I enjoyed the charts and best practices updates.
Bev is so engaging and detailed, uses the most up to date evidence that can be directly applied to patient care.
Superb presenter!!!
Awesome presentation and lecturer.
Excellent!

See more attendee testimonials here!

Get to Know Coach Bev

Beverly Thomassian is a nationally recognized diabetes nurse specialist, mentor, and author whose work bridges science, storytelling, and soul. With decades of experience, she is a passionate advocate for person-centered, inclusive care. As founder of Diabetes Education Services™, Beverly has trained thousands of clinicians to achieve diabetes certification while championing a compassionate approach to healthcare. Whether dancing through moments of self-doubt or coaching professionals toward success, Beverly leads with authenticity and heart. Coach Bev brings decades of clinical expertise, heartfelt storytelling, and a passion for human-centered care to every presentation. 

Beverly offers keynote talks on her groundbreaking book “Healing through Connection“, exploring how presence, empathy, and authenticity can transform the healthcare experience and support professional well-being. She also provides a variety of evidence-based presentations on diabetes management, emerging therapies, ADA Standards of Care, and person-centered care approaches. Attendees leave with powerful insights on building meaningful connections with those they serve, their teams, and themselves.

Coach Beverly Thomassian RN, MPH, CDCES, BC-ADM

As the president of Diabetes Education Services, Beverly firmly believes in the transformative power of education, advocacy, and curiosity in improving diabetes care. She is a highly engaging speaker and educator known for explaining the complex world of diabetes in understandable terms.

Beverly has been an invited speaker to over 300 different venues. With extensive experience with live and online education, Beverly presents each course with the philosophy that learning about diabetes can be interactive, engaging, and, most importantly, meaningful.

Coach Beverly is an expert in a wide variety of diabetes-related topics. Below is a sampling of courses that she has taught over the years. Please reach out if you are interested in a topic not listed below. We have extensive experience creating custom presentations for a variety of audiences!

Participants leave feeling energized, inspired, and excited about providing the best diabetes care.

Author of "Healing through Connection"

Order Your Paperback Copy Today
Order Audible or Kindle Version
Listen to Book Interview on NPR

What if the most powerful medicine isn’t found in a prescription, but in your presence, compassion, and connection?

In Healing through Connection, diabetes nurse, educator, and storyteller Beverly Thomassian invites you on a deeply personal and inspiring journey through the heart of healthcare.

This book is a dedication to all healthcare professionals, who continue to show up with hope and a belief in the power of human connection as a healing force.

If you want to explore and reconnect what drew you to the healthcare field in the first place, this book is for you. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned healthcare professional, this content will provide you with new approaches and strategies to refuel, restore, and rejuvenate, making new spaces for connection and healing.

Through stories of patients, family, and her own path to self-discovery, Beverly offers you a moving call to reimagine healthcare as a place of mutual restoration—for those who receive care and those who give it.

C M Sims
C M Sims
As a member of the helping profession, I have attended dozens of seminars and read more books about how to effectively work with clients. It seems insufficient consideration is ever provided to the practitioners themselves in these trainings. Instead, we are provided with dry and often repetitive intervention models that prioritize efficiency of service over providing true help. With this work, Mrs. Thomassian takes into account this too often neglected aspect of a professional helping relationship by focusing on the shared human experiences we have with those we hope to help. In Healing Through Connection, the author asks the reader to consider the softer places of their professional expression that exist outside of the rigidity of more traditional practice models. Mrs. Thomassain maintains that it is in the context of our shared humanity that there can be a more holistic, effective, and meaningful healing that takes place for all involved. I appreciate deeply her courage to be authentic and model her own experiences that have given rise to this approach as it validates that she "walks the walk." This is an important book to promote more meaning and healing in our work for those we hope to help as well as ourselves.
Amazon Customer
Amazon Customer
Healing through Connection sings with both resilience and inspiration. Beverly blends personal stories with gentle suggestions of how readers can apply the lessons she has learned to our own lives and practices. Her messages are useful ones not just to nursing, but to all caring professionals (I am a teacher.) Like a cup of tea and a warm hug, reading this book helped me to exhale.
Mj Brown
Mj Brown
I feel grateful to have known Beverly for ten years as a fellow dancer and fitness enthusiast. In her book, Healing Through Connections, she blends her brave life stories with compassionate best practices for health care professionals. Her knowledge of diabetes, paired with patient-centered techniques, makes this an invaluable resource for medical professionals and for anyone looking to support their own health. The book offers strength and hope that comes from real experience and many years of dedicated work.
Zhenya Evans
Zhenya Evans
I had the privilege of hearing Beverly speak at a recent conference, where she shared insights from her beautiful book Healing Through Connection. I also have the honor of knowing her personally through our collaboration on a meaningful diabetes-related project. Beverly is not only an extraordinary professional dedicated to educating people with diabetes, but she is also a gifted educator for the educators. This is exactly what our field needs: someone who leads with compassion, wisdom, and authenticity. On my flight back from Alaska to Chicago, I began reading Healing Through Connection and was deeply moved. Beverly’s writing is honest, human, and profoundly inspiring. She shares her personal journey as both a person and a health educator, with all its ups and downs, bitterness and sweetness, offering valuable lessons in optimism, resilience, and empathy along the way. For me, this book served as a poignant reminder of the heart behind our work. The stories from rural America were not only educational but also incredibly touching; they brought tears to my eyes because they resonated so deeply with the work I do in our diabetes clinic in Chicago. Thank you, Beverly, for sharing your gifts, your wisdom, and your stories. Healing Through Connection is a must-read for every health professional who wants to bring more humanity, compassion, and purpose into their care. I will be recommending it to all my colleagues.
Mason Ballinger
Mason Ballinger
I've had the pleasure of knowing and working alongside Coach Beverly for a few months now, and I was able to read her book recently. Not only is she incredibly knowledgeable about her craft, but she is also extremely inspirational and driven. Read this book, and you'll know exactly what I mean!
Kathleen Erin Green
Kathleen Erin Green
I think Beverly Thomassian's new book "Healing Through Connection " should be on every Healthcare Provider's book shelf. I am on the other side of being a provider, I have been a client/patient. Beverly is to the diabetic what Jane Goodall was to the chimpanzee's, someone who gives you hope!!
Sarah Ziherl Hormachea
Sarah Ziherl Hormachea
Healing through Connection is deeply personal and moving. Bev’s lived experience forms the foundation for the empathy she’s cultivated over years in the field. With honesty and authenticity, she shares moments of doubt, even after 25 years as a leader, which helps normalize fear and imposter feelings as part of the professional journey, not limitations. Healing through Connection is like having a wise mentor in my pocket—grounding, encouraging, and genuinely empowering.
Theresa G
Theresa G
Beverly’s Healing through Connection feels like sitting with a wise elder who shares the kind of lessons only experience can teach. Her stories and insights remind us that true healing in diabetes care starts with compassion, listening, and heart and becomes even more powerful when we collaborate. I loved this and gained some powerful insights. I bet you will too.

When you Hire Coach Bev to Speak - You are Getting:

  • Over 25 years of experience of training and practice in Diabetes care.
  • Accredited CEUs for nurses, dietitians, and pharmacists looking to earn their CDCES or BC-ADM.
  • Knowledge and skill sharing to empower health care professionals
  • FREE resources for students to use in their clinical practice.
  • A humanistic, person-centered approach to diabetes care.
  • A practical, engaging, and fun style of education that inspires action.

A 3 Minute TV Interview demonstrates Coach Bev's Teaching Style!

Awards and Certifications

LifeChanger Award Winner

Read More

ADCES California Excellence in Service Kim Higgins Award

Award for excellence in diabetes care and education, 2021.
Read More

Type your paragraph here

Sign up for our

* indicates required

Check out our recent Blog Bytes

Accreditation

For more information on accreditation, visit each individual course page in our Online Store and click the “Accreditation” tab.

Our course CE credits are through the following accrediting bodies:

  • American Medical Association (AMA) PRA Category 1 Credits™,
  • Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE),
  • American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
  • Commission of Dietetic Registration (CDR)

Our CEs count toward the CDCES exam and CDCES / BC-ADM renewal*!

Course credits will continue to count toward the CDCES and BC-ADM certification requirements, and many of our offerings (all of the Standards of Care Intensive courses, plus our Virtual and Live DiabetesEd Training Conferences) fulfill the ADA Standards of Care component required for certification renewal.

The use of DES products does not guarantee the successful passage of the certification exam. CBDCE and ADCES do not endorse any preparatory or review materials for the CDCES or BC-ADM exams, except for those published by CBDCE & ADCES.