SPEAKER'S PLATFORM
POWERFUL SPEAKERS

by Norma Hollis

TRACEY E. CARRUTHERS - EXECUTIVE COACHING FROM THE HEART™ EMBRACES THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE HEART, WHERE WISDOM AND TRUTH RESIDE.

Tracey Carruthers is an author and executive coach. Her clients include CEOs and executive teams, small business owners, speakers, entertainment personalities, consultants and coaches. Her unique coaching methodology, Executive Coaching from the Heart™, embraces the intelligence of the heart, where wisdom and truth reside.

Carruthers is well acquainted with the executive suite. She has 25 years of corporate leadership experience, most recently as vice president with Senn-Delaney Leadership. She served as executive coach and consultant to CEOs and senior teams at: Discover Financial Services, GSK Pharmaceuticals, RadioShack, R.R. Donnelley, International Truck and Engine, and Tricon Global Restaurants. Carruthers also spent 18 years with NBC Network News, most notably as U.S. Midwest bureau chief, producer Tiananmen Square Protests, producer South African First All-Race Elections, and NBC bureau chief Kuwait, during the first Gulf War.

"Tracey combines her own corporate/consulting/life experiences and insights with a unique delivery style that has helped our senior executives open their minds and work more effectively together as a team." David Nelms, chairman, CEO, Discover Financial Services, Inc.

"She challenged my thought process and probed my beliefs, resulting in my having insights I had never experienced before. I am a better facilitator, manager, father, and person for having known Tracey." Craig Andrews. Internal Consultant, R. R. Donnelley

"Tracey's coaching mirrors my feelings and grounds my understanding of how my thinking influences my goals and objectives. As a result I am able to live my professional and personal life with peaceful success." Norma Hollis, president, CEO, Norma Hollis Companies

Read more about Carruthers' remarkable career in her newly released book, (i)Life Under the Influence of Clear, Effective Thinking(ei), available at www.coachcarruthers.com.

LINDA C. WALKER - eCOMMUNICATIONS SOLUTIONS THAT WORK FOR YOU

Linda C. Walker is a true communicator. She has always been one to connect with others. She started her career in communications as an operator at 'The Telephone Company.' Through various positions over the years, she grew with the telecommunications industry to become a trainer, system designer and project manager.

As a project manager, she had the opportunity to plan, coordinate and manage the installation of enterprise voice telecommunication systems at many organizations including Fortune 100 companies such as Wells Fargo, Chevron, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of America, and AT&T. She later became a telecommunications manager for a major networking company with over 15,000 employees worldwide. Eventually Walker left the corporate world to become a consultant and established LCW Communications. On her first assignment at Norma Hollis Companies (formerly Speakers Etcetera), she became a part of the professional speaking industry. While at the Norma Hollis Companies she became a true entrepreneur, learning the speaking industry while developing her presentation skills.

Continuing to enjoy technology, Walker uses another communication media, the Internet, to help businesses grow. She knows the value of staying in touch with clients on a continuous basis and that using the Internet and teleconferences are the most cost effective ways to do that.

Today, Walker is a communications consultant, trainer and professional speaker. She uses the telecommunications network to help others carry their messages forward via the Internet, teleconferences and through the spoken word. Her mission is to build relationships with entrepreneurs and show them how they can grow their businesses with the technology of eCommunications.

To book Carruthers or Walker for your next event, contact Norma Hollis Companies at (310) 671-7136.