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Cynthia Lett

TOPICS:
Business Etiquette
Negotiation
Personal Development
Communication
Networking


FEE CATEGORY:*
5.0k to 10.0k

TRAVELS FROM:
District of Columbia


    Cynthia Lett: Profile

    Since 1985, Ms. Lett a professional consultant in Business & Social Etiquette, Business & Social Entertaining, International Protocol and Executive Communications Skills, has been a seminar speaker and coach around the world - teaching and advising on these subjects. She offers private and corporate consultation and seminars on the power skills necessary to compete in the international business arena. Clients include major universities, Fortune 500 companies, international associations and savvy professionals from all levels of the corporate ladder. She has been teaching the course, "Business Protocol" for the George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs for the past six years.

    Ms. Lett is the principal of The Lett Group and the founder and Executive Director of the International Society of Protocol & Etiquette Professionals. . She is the editor of APROPOS! - a bi-monthly newsletter on these subjects.

    Since 1983 and presently - Ms. Lett is PRESIDENT & OWNER of Creative Planning International - a consulting firm specializing in producing meetings and events for corporations and associations nationwide. In this capacity Ms. Lett has planned over 2,400 meetings of 5-4,000 participants for corporations and associations in 102 countries.

    In 1987 she produced a training program for other meeting planners in how to plan international meetings. She has been featured and quoted in publications such as The Age Education Magazine, Office.com, Prime Life, FSB: Corporate Gift-Giving 101, Meetings & Conventions, The Business Journal, SGMP NATCAP, Pioneer Living, Phone +, and not to forget Entrepreneur Magazine, The Harvard Business Review, Ohio Business Review, Training and Development Journal, CIO Magazine and others.

    During 1990, Ms. Lett planned a series of Business Exchange meetings in the Soviet Union for entrepreneurs from the United States who wished to learn about joint ventures with the Soviets in many different fields. Some of Creative Planning International's clients have included Wall Street Journal, A. T. & T., MCI Telecommunications Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, Department of State, McKinsey and Company, Datapoint Corporation, Duracell International, Security Pacific among others.

    For two years, Ms. Lett served as Director of Meeting Services for American Healthcare Institute responsible for over 1800 meetings each year. Thereafter, she worked for three years as Chief of Protocol and Manager, Corporate Events and Meetings for MCI Communications Corporation. For the past fourteen years, she has been a frequent speaker at various association conventions and local association meetings on the subjects of International Protocol and Business Etiquette.

    Ms. Lett holds a Master of Legal Studies degree from Antioch School of Law, Washington, D.C. and undergraduate degrees in Restaurant, Hotel, & Institutional Management and Public Relations from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. She has also earned a certificate in Adult Learning Techniques from George Washington University.

    Professionally, Ms. Lett is an active member of the American Society for Training and Development; National Speakers Association; Women Business Owners; Professional Convention Management Association; and past member of the American Society of Association Executives; Foundation for International Meetings (Board of Governors 1986-1987). She was elected into Who's Who of American Women; Who's Who of Advertising Executives; 2000 Notable American Women; Who's Who of the World's Women; Who's Who of U.S. Executives and Who's Who of the World.


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