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Coach Bev

Award-Winning Diabetes Education Specialist

America’s Compassionate Diabetes Coach

Coach Beverly brings diabetes science to life—connecting evidence, empathy, and action to inspire better care and better outcomes.

She helps healthcare teams:
✨ Increase engagement through person-centered diabetes strategies
✨ Strengthen emotional intelligence and team resilience
✨ Translate evidence into meaningful, real-world practice with clarity and purpose
✨ Empower diabetes advocates across all care settings

Invite Coach Bev to speak on diabetes and healthcare well-being and give your audience an experience that goes beyond education—one that is empowering, human-centered, and truly transformative.

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

What Attendees are Saying about Coach Beverly's Keynote Presentations

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!

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Get to Know Coach Beverly

Coach Beverly 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 Beverly 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.

To book Coach Beverly for your event, please email [email protected]. Or, you can call us at 530-893-8635.

Author & Speaker of "Healing through Connection"

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

Healing through Connection - Paperback
Healing through Connection - Kindle and Audible on Amazon
Book Interview with Coach Beverly 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.

To book Coach Beverly for your event, please email [email protected]. Or, you can call us at 530-893-8635.

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.

Invite Coach Beverly to Present on These Topics or Request Your Own

Keynote Presentations

Virtual Presentations

Personalized Staff Meetings

Certification Prep

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.

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When you Hire Coach Beverly 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.

Keynote Topics Include:

What We Say Matters – Language that Respects the Individual and Imparts Hope
As educators, advocates, and providers, our use of language can deeply affect the self-view of people living with diabetes every day. Intentional communication is a powerful tool that can uncover trauma, identify barriers, and move both the provider and person with diabetes toward a greater understanding of the issues involved.
From Gut to Butt – Exploring the GI System
Join the wonderment as we explore the role of our GI System. In this presentation, Coach Bev covers gastrointestinal health from top to bottom. Topics include; fatty liver disease diagnosis and treatment, intestinal complications associated with diabetes, keeping the microbiome healthy, and more. Join us to explore the magnificent wonders of diabetes and the gut.
Meds Management for Type 2
In this presentation, Coach Beverly walks participants through the “Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes” as outlined by the most recent American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes guidelines. She kicks it off with a brief overview of the different classes of medications and then uses a case study approach to apply the ADA algorithm.
Insulin and Pattern Management – Unlocking the Mystery
This presentation is an overview of the effective use of insulin therapy to improve glucose control is discussed. Course content incorporates the new American Diabetes Association's (ADA) insulin guidelines & Standards of Care. The content includes a review of pattern management & formulas to calculate basal-bolus insulin therapy.
Standards of Care – Critical Content Review and Update
This presentation, updated annually, is an essential review for anyone in the field of diabetes. This presentation summarizes the annual updates to the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) Standard of Medical Care in Diabetes & provides critical teaching points & content for healthcare professionals involved in diabetes care & education.
A Whole Person Approach to Diabetes Care
This program incorporates the latest ADA Goals of Diabetes Care and explores barriers to diabetes self-management and care. This presentation incorporates communication approaches that work, using the 5 M’s paradigm to collaborate with people with diabetes and recognize the expert within.
Diabetes & the Heart – Reducing Risk and Improving Care
Lead the charge to implement best care practices while preparing for certification. This Boot Camp Intensive reviews the glucose goals of care from pediatrics, through pregnancy, during middle age, & for seasoned citizens. We also take a close look at the goals for CV care & strategies to reduce the risk of experiencing CV events. Resources for hypertension & lipid medications are provided.
Strategies to Revitalize Your Diabetes Program or Business
If you are starting a diabetes self-management program or want to revitalize your current practice, this presentation is full of practical tips on advocating for the best health care in a variety of practice settings.
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A 3 Minute TV Interview Demonstrates Coach Beverly's Teaching Style!

Awards and Certifications

LifeChanger Award Winner

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ADCES California Excellence in Service Kim Higgins Award

Award for excellence in diabetes care and education, 2021.
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Diabetes Education Services offers education and training to diabetes educators in the areas of both Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes for the novice to the established professional. Whether you are training to be a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES), practicing at an advanced level and interested in board certification, or a health care professional and/or Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) who needs continuing education hours to renew your license or CDCES, we have diabetes education information, resources and training; learning and teaching tools; and diabetes online courses available for continuing education (CE). Read our disclaimer for full disclosure.

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