Deborah Norville

Anchor of Inside Edition & Best-Selling Author

Deborah Norville

Anchor of Inside Edition & Best-Selling Author

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Biography

Two-time Emmy© Award winner Deborah Norville is Anchor of Inside Edition, the country’s top-rated and most honored syndicated newsmagazine. Ratings jumped 15% the week Norville joined the program and have remained high ever since. Throughout her tenure, the show has consistently ranked in the top ten television shows in first-run syndication. Inside Edition reaches a daily audience of just under 5 million viewers.

The veteran journalist is a two-time Emmy© winner who joined Inside Edition in 1995 from CBS News, where she was anchor and correspondent. Norville is the former co-host of NBC’s Today and anchor of NBC News at Sunrise. During the course of her career, she has hosted the primetime Deborah Norville Tonight on MSNBC and the national Deborah Norville Show on the ABC Talk Radio Network.

Norville is a best-selling author and lecturer. Her book, Thank You Power: Making the SCIENCE of Gratitude Work for YOU (2007, Thomas Nelson) detailing the connection between gratitude and enhanced cognitive function and energy, was a New York Times best-seller as well as a best-seller in South Korea. She is also a contributor to the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul series, the author of several other self-help books, two best-selling children’s books and a number of books featuring knit and crochet patterns.

A lifelong crafter and seamstress, Norville is the creative force behind the Deborah Norville Yarn Collection, a line of high-quality yarn for knit and crochets enthusiasts found in top chains, including Joann Stores. The product has enjoyed exponential growth since its launch in 2009 and is on track to sell its six millionth skein of yarn in Spring 2014. The line has grown to include knitting needles and crochet hooks.

Norville has been elected to the Board of Directors for the Viacom Corporation, serves on the Compensation Committee and is a past board member of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York, Rita Hayworth (Alzheimer’s) Steering Committee. She is also on the boards of two privately held family firms. Norville serves as a Director for the Broadcasters Foundation of America.

A sought-after lecturer, Deborah Norville speaks with candor and humor about dealing with life’s curves and juggling a career and motherhood.

Speaker Videos

Women's Conference 2008

Speech Topics

The Power of Respect: Benefit From the Most Forgotten Element of Success

Respect can make a meaningful and measurable difference in business, relationships, education, and self confidence.

In this keynote presentation, Inside Edition’s Deborah Norville describes the root of many of society’s ills—a lack of respect—and shares how both giving and receiving respect can impact the following three core areas of an individual’s life:

In Business: Employees work longer and harder and are more creative when there is a respectful work environment. Even more stunning are statistics that prove workers who have been respected are less likely to quit and tend not to sue—even when they are fired.

In Education: Norville discusses how respect in schools can help school systems find additional teaching days, simply because time is not spent writing up discipline reports and sending kids to the Principal’s office. More impressively, test scores go up. Norville references one institution that was so chaotic it was put on lockdown because of a riot in the parking lot; in just three years, the “Power of Respect” made that same school a place kids were sad to leave.

In Relationships: Norville underscores how something as basic as common respect keeps marriages together and can help repair relationships that are broken. She emphasizes that in everyday interactions the “Power of Respect” is potent.

“Thank You Power”: The Power of Gratitude

Deborah Norville presents an eye-opening talk showing how one can improve both their cognitive skills and energy level through what she calls “Thank You Power.” The results are based on peer-reviewed research.

The World Today

From the eyes of a journalist, Deborah Norville offers a front-row seat to events-making news—whether it is the war in Afghanistan, the oil spill in the Gulf or the latest celebrity scandal—making sense of the event and providing an insider's perspective on what is behind the headlines.

Glass Ceilings or Sticky Floor?

What are the challenges women face today in business and their personal life? Insights from top researchers and personal anecdotes are the basis of this discussion filled with “take-home” information for audience members.

The Mommy Juggle

Back on Track: How to Straighten Out Your Life When It Throws You a Curve

Testimonials

"I cannot thank you enough for the fabulous keynote you provided. You were everything we hoped for and more!!! The feedback has been so positive and our CEO was just thrilled with your message. You delivered such an engaging speech and managed to connect with the audience on so many levels. Thank you, thank you, for providing us with such inspiring content. You are amazing!!!"

- Vice President of Marketing & Communications, United Way

"She was fabulous and in fact, our entire day and conference went unbelievably well. Deborah was wonderful to work with right from the beginning and did a great job. I hope to get the opportunity to work with you again soon."

- Executive Women's Council of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce

"It turned out terrific. She was fantastic. Great person who clearly reflects the values we preach. She summed up what I had been discussing all day in our team meeting."

- Spring Engineering Inc.