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“You can spot the ‘it’ factor a mile away,” Sherry says.
Sherry Thomas is a leading Etiquette and Life Skills Expert. Her manners are a credit to good parenting by a strict, mannerly father, a wonderful mother who placed her into Etiquette classes at an early age, and her Southern upbringing. Coupled with her Psychology training at Clemson University, she brings real life situations to real people. God comes first in her life and everything else follows, she believes.
Ms. Sherry, as called by her younger students, has worked with many people that you see on television each week in the areas of Etiquette, Public Speaking, Image Consulting, Drama Coaching, Pageant Coaching, Interviewing Skills and Techniques, Body Language, Media/Press Coaching, and Life Skills.
Sherry often incorporates video into her training, affording a client the opportunity to view 'befores' and 'afters'. Video, she says, is the only way for us to see ourselves as the world does. She believes that proper Etiquette in all areas of our lives is an integral part of how we're seen, thus affecting our advancement in the workplace, recognition in the classroom, and our overall well being. In the business arena, “One of the most common complaints I hear from HR Personnel and Managers is that many employees seem ill prepared or under equipped to work as a team.”
“A strong diet of good manners and protocol affects the way we’re perceived and can only enhance our chances of being viewed as the ‘leader’ or the one with the ‘it’ factor,” she asserts. “Like it or not, we all leave an impression after only ten seconds. It may take ten years to change that impression.”
Sherry coined the phrases Public (and Private) Persona Optimization, meaning that if you practice certain techniques long enough in order to maximize your public perception, eventually those techniques and changes become a natural part of who you are, thus optimizing your private persona.
Clients include Corporations (such as banks, hotels, museums, spas and more), Schools and Universities, new Socialites, Athletes, Children, Adults, new Graduates, people from all walks of life – all seeking to master the polish and skills required to 'get ahead', 'seal the deal,' or 'make a favorable impression'. She has been featured in magazines and newspapers, on radio shows, and has had numerous etiquette articles published.
"Confidence without arrogance," is her favorite mantra.
She loves children and can often be seen in the middle of the floor with kids and teens of all ages, participating with them, instead of staring down at them.
In addition to Etiquette, Sherry is a Writer and Video Producer, having produced Commercials, Infomercials, Corporate Video, and Elite Weddings. She is President of Breathless Video Productions, LLC. Based in South Florida, her international video company shoots anywhere in the world!
In New York City, she was the talent coordinator for a modeling agency and as such, coached children in auditions and modeling, and worked with casting directors and photographers in the area of movies, commercials and print modeling. Her favorite memory is chasing a child or young adult off the bus (speaking to their parents, of course), giving her card stating, "call me."
Having been a New York City actress, she can still be found, occasionally, on the stages of South Florida, performing . . . just to keep the acting blood warm.
“You only have one chance to make a first impression!”
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