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Mary Nestor-Harper, SPHR, is a freelance writer, communications coach/trainer, employment and business consultant. She works with clients to help them deliver dynamic presentations and job-winning interviews. A former HR Director and contract trainer/consultant for SkillPath Seminars, she combines her real-world experiences with endless creativity to design customized, fun, no-nonsense keynotes, interactive training workshops and coaching that get results. Clients say she has the ability to work with all levels of the organization with solid, original content and experiential learning. She has the ability to interview individuals or facilitate executive planning sessions and pull out critical information needed to formulate action plans to improve performance and productivity.
An award-winning Toastmaster, and President of Savannah Toastmaster Club 705, her thought-provoking and inspirational keynote, "All You Care to Achieve," challenges the old rules about success and making life choices. Her team-building exercise, "Life-Links," was published in Training & Development Magazine and has been used successfully by NASA, Western Michigan University, Coach, Inc., the Savannah Economic Development Authority and Georgia Power Company. "Rocks 2.0" is a new keynote and workshop that lets individuals customize their life anchors according to their individual personality, needs, passions and values.
Her feature and interview articles have appeared in The Savannah Morning News, BiS Magazine, Training & Development magazine, Training Magazine, Pulse and Supervision magazine. She has written hundreds of articles on employment, business, customer service and success for Beyond.com, ehow.com, Chron.com, Skirt.com and is the job guide expert for jobsite.com. You can find Mary on YouTube.com, talking about reinventing yourself and tips on putting together a successful job search on the Ageless Media Network, a talk-radio program on WTKS-AM, Clear Channel Radio.
Partial client list includes Park, Inc., SEDA, The Town of Hilton Head Island, Georgia Power, Monsanto Company, NutraSweet Company, Garrett Aviation Services, the Medical College of Georgia, University Hospital, Augusta Technical College and Coldwell Banker Realtors. She is a member of the National Speakers Association, Toastmasters International, and the Society for Human Resources. She took first place in the 2011 Georgia State Toastmasters Speech Evaluation Contest at their Fall Convention in Atlanta, GA.