Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE is an award-winning speaker, author, sales trainer and in-demand speech coach. Her speech-coaching clients include corporate leaders, celebrity speakers, well-known sports and media personalities, ministers and sales teams. Meetings and Conventions magazine named her “One of the 10 most electrifying speakers in North America.” She delivers high-energy, high-content, and dramatically memorable presentations. Steven Covey’s Executive Excellence magazine named her “One of the top 50 consultants, trainers, speakers, authors and professors who cover the Seven Dimensions of Excellence.” Kiplinger’s Personal Finance November 2002 issue claimed, “Patricia Fripp’s speaking skills class is the sixth best investment to make with $1,000. The over 4,000-member National Speakers Association elected her the first female President in 1984. She has won or been awarded every designation given by NSA, including the Hall of Fame and the Cavett Award, the highest honor and considered the Oscar of the speaking world.