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  • Suzette Haden Elgin, Ph.D.: Genderspeak: Men, Women, and the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense
    Men and women do speak and write differently. Use Suzette Elgin's wisdom to help you be clearly understood by those interesting people of the opposite sex. Avoid sexist language and put your ideas together clearly. (****)
  • Jean Marie Stine: Double Your Brain Power
    Lifelong learning is a key priority for employees and employers alike today. This book gives you a fast, proven method for doubling your reading, memory, and learning power. I have used this approach with hundreds with great results! (****)
  • Tom Stafford: Mind Hacks : Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain (Hacks)

    Tom Stafford: Mind Hacks : Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain (Hacks)
    Pick up your memory (did you misplace it?) and put your writing talents into high gear. Tom Stafford & Matt Webb have a lighthearted approach to a scientific subject. (****)

  • Elizabeth Miles: Tune Your Brain: Using Music to Manage Your Mind, Body, and Mood

    Elizabeth Miles: Tune Your Brain: Using Music to Manage Your Mind, Body, and Mood
    With a few well-chosen musical pieces you can write like a pro, be creative on a moment's notice, or stay on track with chaos reigning supreme all around you. (***)

  • Betty Edwards: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
    Discover new talents...in writing and drawing...you never knew you had. Get that brain into high gear for writing and communication fluency. (****)
  • Hal Urban: Positive Words, Powerful Results : Simple Ways to Honor, Affirm, and Celebrate Life

    Hal Urban: Positive Words, Powerful Results : Simple Ways to Honor, Affirm, and Celebrate Life
    What people to react positively to your verbal or written communications? Having challenges getting along with co-workers or your boss? Is your teenager giving you a migraine? Then this book will lend a helping hand. Hal Urban presents common sense, easy-to-follow suggestions for making life more enjoyable. (*****)

  • Joyce Wycoff:  Mindmapping

    Joyce Wycoff: Mindmapping
    Organizing and brainstorming can be a challenge for most writers, from beginners to advanced! This book maps out a clear path to organization and formatting success. (****)

  • Julia Cameron: The Artist's Way

    Julia Cameron: The Artist's Way
    This woman knows how to unleash anyone's inner author! This easy, twelve-part book jumpstarts your writing and your life. (*****)

  • Genie Z. Laborde: Influencing With Integrity

    Genie Z. Laborde: Influencing With Integrity
    Tired of repeating yourself, being misunderstood, or lacking communicating power? Then head to this book for a mega dose of communication savvy! (*****)

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Brief Bio: Who is Debra Burton Brown?

It won’t take you long to discover how deeply Debra Burton Brown cares about her audiences and their future success.  Or to understand why she consistently earns 90% effectiveness ratings—and gets rave reviews for her platform performances.

 

Come see how expertly this skilled trainer packs the best and latest take-aways into her sessions on:  Technical writing, scientific writing, legal writing, report writing, government writing, and business writing.  In addition to writing course, she adds sessions on:  Assertiveness, conflict management, leadership skills for women, communication, dealing with negative attitudes, discovering your best learning style, and motivating unmotivated learners.

 

Debra has devoted 23 years of her career to providing training and program development consulting to such clients as the Department of Agriculture, IBM, Choice Hotels, the Federal Trade Commission, the American Cancer Association, Elizabeth City State University with University of North Carolina, National Center for Food Safety and Technology with University of Chicago, and more.

 

She truly is a prolific program developer.  She developed and implemented a business writing series that earned top ratings…a train-the-trainer curriculum involving 1000+ Job Corps students…a customized six-week employee performance training program that helped clients avoid layoffs and shutdowns…and a career transition program implemented nationally.

 

When it comes to class materials, she’s created them all—including brochures, flyers, workbooks and manuals.  A gifted writer, she’s also the author of three self-paced programs on career development, employee communication and business and personal development.

 

Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and went on to pursue graduate studies in clinical and statistical psychology.  She is a member of the Legal Writing Institute.

 

Add to all that the fact that she has been heard on more than 300 television and radio shows in major media markets and you have such a complete speaker…the humor, thought-provoking insight and relevant strategies she delivers will seem like surprising bonuses.

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