E-Mail: svieyra@phoenixconsulting.org

•More than 20 years consulting for large corporations, small businesses, non-profit associations, government agencies and educational institutions (in Canada, the US, Europe and Russia);

•28 years of highly successful teaching, public speaking and course and seminar development experience in business and at universities;

•20 years of progressive, results oriented business experience (8 years as a director of business education programs, and 5 years as Executive Vice-President of a national association);

•Business teaching and consulting experience includes: strategic planning, business ethics, presentation skills, instructor training, negotiating techniques, meeting facilitation and creative problem solving.

•Designed, wrote and taught instructor training programmes adopted by associations and companies in Canada, the US, Russia, Hungary and Poland;

•Developed a results and action oriented planning methodology, and conducted strategic planning sessions for more than 30 private companies and associations;

•Developed and taught courses and seminars in ethics and business practice (in English and French) attended by over 1,500 participants;

•Advanced a national non-profit association in Canada from a members' equity deficit to a reserve fund in excess of 20% of annual expenses, in less than 4 years;

•Awarded the international REEA’s Most Outstanding Education Program of the Year Award in 1988, and the Best Single Education Program Award for 1995 (both for courses designed to train instructors);

•Written books on teaching and presentation skills - published in English (US and Canadian editions), French, Russian, Hungarian and Polish;

•Able to teach, write and consult in French.