Abby Marks Beale
Abby Marks Beale is a speed reading expert and a business productivity specialist who enjoys helping busy professionals work smarter, faster and just plain better. Abby guides people to be the best they can be at work, at home, in their relationships and in their health. Her programs on faster reading, email management and time and stress management help people reduce workplace stress through the knowledge of skills. Most recently after 10 years of study, Abby has added the title of nationally certified classical homeopath to her activities.
Over the past 20+ years, she has worked with a wide variety of client organizations including Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, government agencies, associations and schools. She is the founder of The Corporate Educator LLC (www.TheCorporateEducator.com), a speaking and training company that helps people learn the essential work skills people wish they learned in school through keynote sessions, workshops, teleclasses, online learning, books and other educational products. Rev It Up Reading (www.RevItUpReading.com), a subsidiary of The Corporate Educator, focuses on her speed reading expertise.
Abby is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Reading, 10 Days to Faster Reading and a college study skills textbook entitled Success Skills: Strategies for Study and Lifelong Learning (3rd edition). She recently created an online course called Rev It Up Reading: Getting Up To Speed With What You Read now available for individual learning and for corporate and school licensing.
Abby is the Founder and Past-President of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Speakers Association. She also holds a long-time professional affiliation with the National Speaker's Association (NSA). She is currently on the board of both The National Center for Homeopathy and the Wallingford Public Library.
Her formal education includes a Bachelor's Degree in Spanish and French from Boston University and a Master's Degree in Adult Education from Southern Connecticut State University. She considers her formal education as just a starting point in the life-long process in learning how to learn.
Abby Marks Beale is a speed reading expert and a business productivity specialist who enjoys helping busy professionals work smarter, faster and just plain better. Abby guides people to be the best they can be at work, at home, in their relationships and in their health. Her programs on faster reading, email management and time and stress management help people reduce workplace stress through the knowledge of skills. Most recently after 10 years of study, Abby has added the title of nationally certified classical homeopath to her activities.
Over the past 20+ years, she has worked with a wide variety of client organizations including Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, government agencies, associations and schools. She is the founder of The Corporate Educator LLC (www.TheCorporateEducator.com), a speaking and training company that helps people learn the essential work skills people wish they learned in school through keynote sessions, workshops, teleclasses, online learning, books and other educational products. Rev It Up Reading (www.RevItUpReading.com), a subsidiary of The Corporate Educator, focuses on her speed reading expertise.
Abby is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Reading, 10 Days to Faster Reading and a college study skills textbook entitled Success Skills: Strategies for Study and Lifelong Learning (3rd edition). She recently created an online course called Rev It Up Reading: Getting Up To Speed With What You Read now available for individual learning and for corporate and school licensing.
Abby is the Founder and Past-President of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Speakers Association. She also holds a long-time professional affiliation with the National Speaker's Association (NSA). She is currently on the board of both The National Center for Homeopathy and the Wallingford Public Library.
Her formal education includes a Bachelor's Degree in Spanish and French from Boston University and a Master's Degree in Adult Education from Southern Connecticut State University. She considers her formal education as just a starting point in the life-long process in learning how to learn.
Getting Up To Speed With What You Read
When WAS the last time you had any reading training??! If you're like most, it was w-a-a-a-y back in Elementary School!
Getting Up To Speed With What You Read is the quick tune-up your eyes and brain deserve. In this content-rich interactive session, you will learn immediately useful strategies to apply to both your paper and on-screen reading workload. You will experiement with proven speed reading strategies to figure out which ones work best for you. As a result of this program,...
Taking Control of the Chaos
Do your days make you feel like a gerbil on a treadmill? Would you like to leave work more satisfied at the end of every day?
It's as simple as knowing how to manage your time! In this session, you get off the proverbial treadmill to take time to reflect on what's working and what's not at work and at home. We look at some of the most fundamental and immediately useful ideas in the areas of goal-setting and prioritizing to help you discover a more practical work-life...
Slaying the Email Dragon
Are you overwhelmed by email? Are you looking for better ways to manage it?
Though we can't completely control what comes in, we can certainly better handle what we send out and how we process what comes in. Slaying the Email Dragon is designed to help the busy professional more efficiently manage the daily email workload by teaching effective tools evaluating and responding to electronic correspondence. As a result of this program, attendees will know how to create...
Beyond Overload: 10 Secrets to Get Back Control
Do you need to get a grip on your workload? Does the concept of work-life balance seem to elude you?
Beyond Overload: 10 Secrets to Get Back Control helps busy people get a grip on the many ways they feel stress: a perceived lack of time, too much email, more reading than anyone can possibility handle and a lack of effective organization. This conference-style session delivers some of the best ideas that all overworked and overloaded people need to be reminded of and...
