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Holly has a reputation with her clients as a dynamic, personable and genuine professional. With nearly 20 years experience, she is well rounded in the business of people development. Her career began at MCI Telecommunications, where she won the Circle of Excellence award for sales training design and delivery. She also received training certifications from Franklin Covey, Ridge, OKA, Achieve Global, Brandon Partners and IOweU Intl.

As an executive coach, Holly specializes in persuasive speaking skills for high-level presentations. She also receives high marks herself as a professional speaker. For the past two years, the conference attendees of ASTD’s SW Learning Symposium have rated her as the “Best Speaker of the Conference” on topics from facilitation skills to visual communication.

Holly earned a BA in Communication and Public Address from UNT and is pursuing an MS in Human Relations and Business. She is also a Certified Life Coach and a member of professional associations such as ASTD and ICF. She is an Adjunct Professor at SMU's Leadership Development Center teaching Business Presentation Skills to PMBA students attending the Cox School of Business. Holly’s educational interests extend beyond the corporate classroom and into the school system. She volunteers to bring parent education programs to school districts on behalf of the Texas PTA Council

Dena’s background includes twenty years of office management, sales and service. She has won many awards and received letters of accolade for demonstrating excellent customer communication, going the extra mile in service, and for motivating and training employees. She is currently also pursing an educational path in the areas of human resources, payroll and finance. Her interests include the study of communication, personality type, and leadership development.

Mary Kay draws on 14 years of management and sales experience within Fortune 500 companies, including General Motors, General Electric and Prudential. She has facilitated high-level meetings, delivered process improvement training, and achieved accolades for sales and marketing.

She is certified in MBTI/Myers Briggs Type Indicator and she is a CSTP/Certified Synchronous Training Professional for delivering interactive training webinars. Mary Kay earned an Executive/Professional Coaching Certification, a graduate level program, from UTD, and earned an MS in Human Resource & Organization Management from USF. Her expertise in executive coaching blended with her business and training experience enable her to assist her clients in meeting their most challenging goals. Mary Kay specializes in teaching presentation and sales skills and has helped hundreds of employees greatly improve their influence, credibility and relationship building skills at companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Amway, Dr. Pepper Snapple, Genesys Labs, Liberty Building Systems and Texas Instruments. Mary Kay volunteers her time with PTA to encourage parent involvement in the school.

Gerilynn brings organizations of all types transformational learning experiences that create behavioral change and improve business results. With over 19 years experience, her areas of expertise include leadership training, executive coaching, presentation skills training, sales training, train-the-trainer and instructional design. Gerilynn works with Fortune 500 companies both in the USA and globally with clients such as Motorola, Cisco, Raytheon, Nokia, Washington Mutual, NBC, Disney, Toyota, Pardee Homes and Stanford University. She is a Master Trainer with DDI/Development Dimensions International and a certified instructor with Achieve Global and Real Learning. Gerilynn is certified in ROI Coach Training and is a CSTP/Certified Synchronous Training Professional for leading interactive webinars. She has an Ed.M. in Education from Harvard University and a BA in Spanish from UCLA. Gerilynn has a creative eye and is a photographer in her spare time.

Karen has earned a reputation as a dynamic and engaging training professional and coach in her delivery of leadership, interpersonal and presentation skills over the past 18 years. She has earned over 15 nationally recognized training certifications from companies such as Franklin Covey, Blessing White, Wilson Learning, and Dale Carnegie. Karen is also certified in the MBTI/Myers Briggs Type Indicator and is a CSTP/Certified Synchronous Training Professional and delivers interactive training webinars. She graduated from Georgetown University’s graduate level Training and Development program. She has extensive international experience, including assignments for Concert/British Telecom, MCI, and Cisco in France, England, Holland, Hungary, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia. She has delivered hundreds of programs for Fortune 500 companies such as Amway Global, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Dr. Pepper Snapple, FedEx Kinko’s, Ryan and Texas Instruments. Karen is passionate about horses and competes at an international level in three day eventing.

Christy has a reputation as creative, genuine, personable and passionate about training. She has over 19 years of training experience across a broad range of industries in both the USA and in the United Kingdom. She draws from her years of experience with MCI Telecommunications delivering customer service and sales training for call center employees and managers. Christy has successfully trained professional development programs for and consulted with clients at Fortune 500 companies including Amway Global, Alcatel-Lucent, BNSF Railway, CapRock, Dr Pepper Snapple, FedEx Kinko’s, Pacificare, Texas Instruments, Ryan, and Cogent in Scotland, UK. Christy has facilitated over 600 workshops on topics such as Presentation Skills, Train-the Trainer, Effective Meetings, Communication Skills, Coaching, Customer Service, Sales, and Teambuilding. She is certified in MBTI/Myers Briggs Type Indicator and Achieve Global programs. Her audiences have included front line employees to Senior Vice Presidents. Christy is not only adept at training delivery, but she has also co-developed four successful leadership training programs. She earned her BBA in Marketing Management from UNT. Christy is a CSTP/Certified Synchronous Training Professional for delivering interactive training webinars.

Alison has specialized in Human Resources Training and Development since 1991. Her extensive experience includes training delivery in leadership development skills, as well as one-on-one coaching, 360 degree feedback, meeting facilitation, and teambuilding - using tools such as the MBTI and the DiSC assessments. She has worked with all employee levels, ranging from engineers to sales people to managers from all over the world. Alison holds training certifications from Ridge Associates, Interactive Associates, Franklin Covey, Blessing White, Personnel Decisions International, Zenger Miller, IOWEU International and from Learning Times as a CSTP/Certified Synchronous Training Professional for leading interactive training webinars. Corporate clients include Amway Global, BNSF Railway, Cisco, MCI, and RCN. Alison earned a BA in Psychology and certification in the Secondary Education Program at the University of Iowa, and she is a member of ASTD and APT. Alison’s natural zest for life, education and personal growth extends beyond the corporate environment to her children’s education. She served as the PTA Chairperson for students with special needs and teaches Faith Formation.

Tracy is a skilled classroom facilitator and executive coach with over 15 years of global training experience. Her areas of interest and focus have been team building, communications, conflict management, leadership, influence and negotiation. Clients appreciate her humor, and her ability to quickly understand their unique business challenges. For 9 years, she worked with Cisco to develop and deliver high-potential employee and management training programs in their offices in the USA, Europe and Asia (China, Japan, Malaysia). These programs supported a variety of functional areas, including customer service, operations, human resources, corporate leadership development, engineering and world-wide sales force training. Tracy is a Professional Behavioral and Values Analyst (DISC and PIAV), a certified Coach, and a CSTP/Certified Synchronous Training Professional for leading interactive training webinars. As a volunteer, she also works with community outreach programs where she speaks to students on career choices and important life skills.

Carol is known as a dynamic trainer who is passionate about teaching others to perform their best. She draws on years of technical training in the telecommunications industry, where she designed and delivered a national Train-the-Trainer program which was Microsoft certified. She also has delivered teambuilding programs and provided one-on-one coaching to many employees as the owner of Pump It Up, the nation’s largest inflatable indoor playground. Their corporate teambuilding program has garnered national media attention, with Time Magazine recently reporting on it (click to read). Carol specializes in teaching presentation skills, drawing from her experience teaching public speaking classes at Texas Tech University, where she also earned an MA in Speech Communications.