Debra Fine: Motivational Speaker

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  • Travels from: Denver, CO
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  • FINE ART OF BUILDING BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS
  • THE FINE ART OF SMALL TALK
  • THE FINE ART OF BUILDING BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS FOR LEADERS
  • THE FINE ART OF BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS AND CULTIVATING COMMUNITY

A former engineer Debra Fine established her Denver based company The FINE Art of Small Talk to teach all variety of C-Level, manager and stake holder, along with the spouse who is dragged along to banquets and meetings conversation skills for use at business networking events, conventions and meetings, trade shows, as well as when interacting with clients, customers and patients.

Fine studied the art of conversation as diligently as she had once studied engineering.

A member of the National Speakers Association Debra Fine receives high accolades from her clients, which include Cisco Systems, Wells Fargo Banks, Hinckley, Allen and Snyder LLP, Spectra Energy, The US Treasury Department, Toyota, the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, Lockheed Martin, Vermont Law School and hundreds of associations including insurance, real estate, legal, financial, engineering/technology, health care, and Chambers of Commerce and civic organizations across the country.

Debra Fine is also a member of Rotary International serving on the board of her club during her membership over the past 18+ years. In addition she is a past member of the Advisory Council of the University Of Colorado School Of Engineering, Mountain States Anti-Defamation League and the Communities Advisory Council of the Junior League.

Debra Fine | Motivational Speaker

Debra Fine authored the best-selling books The Fine Art of Small Talk How to Start a Conversation, Keep it Going, Build Rapport and Leave a Positive Impression (Hyperion) and the most recent in the Fine Art series: The Fine Art of Big Talk: How to Win Clients, Deliver Great Presentations, and Solve Conflicts at Work (Hyperion). Debra’s recent media appearances include The Today Show, CNN, The Early Show, and NPR Morning Edition. She currently travels the country as a corporate motivational speaker.

Female Keynote Speaker, Trainer, Bestselling Author
Enjoy Debra’s fast paced, informative, entertaining, and interactive keynotes and training seminars at your next corporate or association event!

Funny and Informative
Debra presents keynote speeches and programs for corporations and associations nationally and internationally that combine humor and interactions offering concrete skills and tools.

Her keynote presentations and workshops offer attendees the ability to develop and cultivate outstanding conversation skills, mingling tips and business networking techniques that result in meeting new people, recruiting new prospects, gaining visibility, increasing referrals, enhancing customer/client interaction and developing and growing successful organizations.

Debra Fine teaches conversation techniques, business networking tips, mingling skills to help leaders, groups and stakeholders’ alike reach new levels of achievement and does so in an entertaining, informative and interactive manner.

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