Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE, A Speaker for All Reasons™

Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE, is an award-winning keynote speaker, business presentation expert, sales presentation skills trainer, and in-demand speech coach to executives and celebrity speakers. Meetings & Conventions magazine named her “One of the 10 most electrifying speakers in North America.” She delivers high-energy, high-content, and dramatically memorable presentations. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance identified Patricia Fripp’s presentation skills training as one of the best ways you can invest in your career.

Fortune 500 companies maximize their investment by engaging Patricia for the keynote and breakout sessions and as a coach for their executives on their presentations. Patricia is known for simplifying and demystifying the process of designing and delivering powerful keynote speeches and sales presentations.

Patricia is known as “The speaker’s speaker.” She was elected to be the first female president of the 3,500-member National Speakers Association.

Jim Prost, Executive Speech Coaching, PowerPoint Creation, and Training

Jim has mastered the art of presentation skills and shares his insights, techniques, and ideas to develop your skills as a dynamic presenter. Jim has been honored twice as “Instructor of the Year” at U.C. Berkeley Extension, in part because he has made his classes memorable, entertaining, and educational.

Trusted by clients that include the United States Air Force, Advanced Micro Devices, the American Society of Enology and Viticulture, the American Marketing Association, the Haas Business School at the University of California Berkeley, the Graham School of Business at the University of Chicago, Stanford University, SBC Communications, California Credit Union League, Xerox Corporation, California State Automobile Association, Meeting Professionals International, the Marketing Association of California, and Gloria Ferrer Wineries.

Jim was Director of Marketing and Sales for the Technology Products Group at Dataquest (a high-technology marketing research company) and Vice President of Sales for Power Up Software Corporation (a consumer software products manufacturer). He held management positions with Qume Corporation, GP Technologies, Xidex Magnetics, and Wabash Tape Corporation.

Jim is co-author with David Aaker, Ph.D., of the Instructor’s Manual for David Aaker’s Strategic Market Management, 6th Edition, published in 2002 by John Wiley & Sons, and the 7th Edition, published in 2004.

Jim works with Patricia Fripp’s clients in developing their natural abilities to become outstanding, confident presenters and in designing PowerPoint presentations that truly support their message, rather than distract from it.

Rebecca Linquist, American Accent Acquisition Specialist

Rebecca Linquist is Fripp Associates’ recommended Accent Reduction and American Accent Acquisition Specialist.

She has pioneered a program that helps non-native speakers of American English transform their speaking skills in as little as two months. She begins by analyzing a client’s speech, defining critical areas for focus, and customizing delivery to maximize time and effort, creating noticeable and sustainable results in her client’s speech, via 1-1 personal coaching. Rebecca has also worked in business as a Senior Manager and is intimately familiar with the communication challenges of non-native American English speaking professionals in the US.

Her programs are influenced by linguistic theory, speech therapy, and English as a Second Language techniques, as well as Best Practices based on her experiences working with professionals and C-level employees in the Silicon Valley. Her methodology includes visual, auditory, and kinesthetic techniques, using brain plasticity to create change. These experiential techniques are critical to reactivate the dormant language learning abilities we all possess as children. She uses both traditional means and proprietary techniques to address clear pronunciation and articulation, word stress, intonation, breathing pattern modification, mouth mobility/movement, voice projection, improving loudness with speech, and alternative solutions to slowing down the rate of speech. Through intense pattern-changing, one-hour sessions, once a week for a series of weeks, her programs enable profound behavioral change in her client’s speech.

Rebecca’s current and former clients include managers and executives employed by companies such as Cisco, eBay, Google, Oracle, KLA-Tencor, HP, Vocera Communications, Logitech, PayPal, NEC-America, Yahoo, and Apple. She has a Masters Degree in Applied Linguistics/TESOL from San Jose State, one year of doctoral studies in Management from UOP, and has apprenticed with a speech therapist.

Rebecca specializes in live, 1-1 personal coaching sessions at the client’s location or via the internet. Most packages include 10 or more sessions and may include additional sessions for applying the techniques and strategies to specific presentations, business conversations, and other client-specific needs.

Shirley Davalos, Accent Reduction and American Accent Acquisition

Shirley Davalos brings a strong background in television production and broadcast media services.

Media Coaching

A wide variety of executives, authors, and professional speakers have benefited from Shirley Davalos’ creativity and understanding of television production and programming, both as an executive producer and media consultant.

Production and Program Development

Ms. Davalos has been producing and developing television programs independently since 1982 when she produced live talk/magazine shows for ABC and Chronicle Broadcasting in San Francisco.

Most recently, she produced health and financial news reports for CNX Media, a news syndicate. CNX produces Dr. Dean Edel’s Health Reports, Health Central website, and Quicken Money Report segments which air in 70 news markets across the nation. Ms. Davalos has had a varied career as a producer, developing a children’s program and a magazine show for PBS which are slated for national broadcast. She has produced The Personal Computing Show, a weekly half-hour television series sponsored by Ziff-Davis Publishing that aired nationally on CNBC, Jones Computer Network, and Lifetime Cable. She has recently developed All Consuming for BayTV/ KRON-TV and was tapped by KRON-TV management to produce New Years Live and Contact 4 on BayTV. Ms. Davalos has also developed original audio programs for a direct audio Internet company, Command Audio.

Shirley Davalos has developed programs for The Discovery Channel, CKS Pictures, and Pac-Bell and has also produced, for business and corporate clients, training and promotional programs such as “Power Sewing”; “Empowering Your Front Line – How to Manage Customer Relations”; “Chevron Video Showcase”; “Ecospeak – Coming to an Understanding”; “Building a Customer Service Team”; and for Moscone Convention Center, “Centerpiece for the City”.