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What a wonderful opportunity. Thank you.
My career has taken planned turns and unexpected risks with each one more engaging. Professionally, I am a corporate management trainer with over 25 years with world-recognized corproations. Fourteen years ago I shifted gears from the corporate world to academics where I have taught Communication in the Dept of Management in our local University: another satisfying experience.
In April 2013, I left the University and focused on communication consulting. After first hand observation, both in corporate and education classrooms, I knew my companion product was etiquette. In my home city of Memhis, TN there is tremendous need for improved respect and relaxed comfort in business and social settings--improved communication and greater awareness of the basics of good manners.
In July 2013, a major halt to my plans: I suffered a heart attack and stroke. I am expremely fortunate to have come through this with only a rare case of alexia--the inability to read--and a major degree of frustration. I am indeed blessed. Business plans have been replaced with vision therapy and relearning ABCs. Through excellent treatment and the encouragement of family, friends, and colleagues, I am very near full recovery. Not easily discouraged, I have not given up plans for the ultimate step in my career--establishing a non-profit speakers' bureau to conduct "messages about manners" workshops for both schools and business organizations. I am convinced there is a divine plan to go along wih my business plan to fulfill this passion.
Here is how your award would fit to a "t" the final piece of my career plans. Your class would give me the added credential and credibility to seek the necessary support for the speakers' bureau to become reality and offer the opportunity to help others put their best foot forward in reaching their own career goals.
My career has taken planned turns and unexpected risks with each one more engaging. Professionally, I am a corporate management trainer with over 25 years with world-recognized corproations. Fourteen years ago I shifted gears from the corporate world to academics where I have taught Communication in the Dept of Management in our local University: another satisfying experience.
In April 2013, I left the University and focused on communication consulting. After first hand observation, both in corporate and education classrooms, I knew my companion product was etiquette. In my home city of Memhis, TN there is tremendous need for improved respect and relaxed comfort in business and social settings--improved communication and greater awareness of the basics of good manners.
In July 2013, a major halt to my plans: I suffered a heart attack and stroke. I am expremely fortunate to have come through this with only a rare case of alexia--the inability to read--and a major degree of frustration. I am indeed blessed. Business plans have been replaced with vision therapy and relearning ABCs. Through excellent treatment and the encouragement of family, friends, and colleagues, I am very near full recovery. Not easily discouraged, I have not given up plans for the ultimate step in my career--establishing a non-profit speakers' bureau to conduct "messages about manners" workshops for both schools and business organizations. I am convinced there is a divine plan to go along wih my business plan to fulfill this passion.
Here is how your award would fit to a "t" the final piece of my career plans. Your class would give me the added credential and credibility to seek the necessary support for the speakers' bureau to become reality and offer the opportunity to help others put their best foot forward in reaching their own career goals.
