Mary M. Mitchell, President
Mary M. Mitchell delivers one consistent message: Social, presentation and communications skills are the keys to personal and professional success. This she has done through: nine acclaimed books, published in ten languages; newspaper columns, such as her nationally syndicated newspaper column, “Ms. Demeanor”, as well as her “Nice Matters” column for The Seattle Times; an online column, “Nice Matters” for Reuters; and online forums, through ivillage.com,
In addition to her publishing accomplishments, Ms. Mitchell is an experienced, professional on-camera and live radio personality. She was co-host of “Nice Matters”, a weekly commentary on manners broadcast by the Comcast network for two years, as well as three hour-long programs about business and social etiquette for major PBS affiliates. She has appeared numerous times on the major network morning shows. Ms. Mitchell has also brought her message and skills to the public as a speaker and keynoter.
Since 1989, her company, The Mitchell Organization, has worked with hundreds of clients from coast to coast, through targeted communications, service, performance, and social training.
Working with select professionals, and backed by vast international and multimedia experience, Ms. Mitchell has developed customized programs to improve the internal and external human relations of many organizations. Her clients have realized greater productivity, smoother functioning and better bottom-line results.
Her work in customer and client services has met with particular acclaim from multinational organizations in the legal, accounting and medical professions, and the hospitality industry. In every venue, she has been a passionate teacher and refreshing guide to achieving better relations, greater satisfaction and more success in personal and professional life.
Whether the issue is multicultural etiquette, corporate presentations, entertaining, public speaking, customer service, office politics or work-life balance, Ms. Mitchell garners raves reviews for her no-nonsense, human approach to navigating the shoals of 21st-century life.
James K. Weber, M.D., Wellness Advisor
When it comes to peak emotional and physical fitness, health care communications and stress management, no one is better versed than Dr. James Weber. A distinguished surgeon for nearly three decades, Dr. Weber closed his practice in 2008, and is now a yoga instructor, a yoga therapist, and an Ayurvedic counselor. He continues to serve as an Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington.
Dr. Weber graduated from Yale University with a degree in English literature and received his medical degree from Columbia University. His surgery training was done at the University of Washington. He is board certified in general surgery, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. His yoga teacher training was through YogaWorks and his Ayurvedic training via Kerala Ayurveda.
He has been teaching high school, college and graduate students as well as resident doctors for his entire career. He has been honored for his teaching skills on three occasions. He is a poet, a gardener, and an avid fan of baseball, opera, classical music, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Dr. Weber‘s Webpage, www.prescriptionyoga.com, a work in progress, contains a great deal of useful information. Be sure to have a look.
Thea Long, Director of Training
If you think your habits, or those of your employees, are too entrenched to change, Thea Long can quickly convince you otherwise. When she was just 25, she created and streamlined an arts program for the men in New York and New Jersey’s maximum security prisons.
Her methods were so effective at changing the behavior of hardened criminals that Mademoiselle Magazine picked her as one of its 10 most outstanding women of the year.
Since then she has developed training programs for cities and counties nationwide, helping everyone from long-term welfare recipients to “hard core” unemployables.
In recent years, Ms. Long’s training has focused on business etiquette and interpersonal communication skills for the service and corporate communities. She has designed, and conducted, training programs internationally for Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, governmental agencies and school systems.
Her extensive theatrical background makes her an exceptionally gifted presenter. Participants rave about her humorous, yet informative, training programs.
She lives in New Jersey, where she and her husband own and operate Cartridge World of Cherry Hill.