| Peggy
Klaus
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| "For most people being a self-advocate
is about as comfortable as having a root canal," notes
Peggy Klaus, author of a new book called BRAG!
The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It. (available
in hardcover and paperback from Warner Books). A top
Fortune 500 communication and leadership coach, Klaus
has taught thousands of professionals the art of bragging
with style and grace. Now, through her book and popular
BRAG! workshops and parties, she is teaching anyone
how to brag—and get
away with it. |
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President of Klaus & Associates in Berkeley,
CA, Klaus is a much in-demand consultant who has spent
nearly a decade advising some of America's top Fortune
500 executives in the art of self-presentation and promotion.
She reaches thousands of professionals a year through speaking,
coaching, and workshops for leading organizations including
Levi Strauss, Disney, JP Morgan Chase, General Mills, NAFE,
Count Me In, 100 Women in Hedge Funds, and The Harvard
Business School Alumni Association, among others. Her colorful
and frank advice is frequently sought out by journalists,
and she has been featured and quoted extensively in a wide
range of media including ABC's 20/20,
NBC's Today, CNN, Business
Week, The Wall Street Journal, New
York Times, Glamour,
Working Mother, and Family
Circle, among others.
Also well regarded in higher
education, Klaus has lectured on communication to students
and educators
at the University
of California Berkeley's Haas School of Business and
School of Public Health & Sciences. Most recently,
she has served as a lecturer at Wharton’s Executive
MBA Program. In addition, Klaus sits on the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She has also mentored and presented to teens
on communication, self-promotion and leadership issues
through the prominent Young Women’s Leadership
School and Foundation in Manhattan, Professional Business
Women of California (PBWC) and The CrossRoads Foundation/Backyard
Project.
Klaus has advanced degrees in drama, speech
and theatre from the Royal Academy of Music and the Drama
Studio, both
in London. She started off in Hollywood coaching entertainers
for The Tonight Show and Cosby as well as producing and
directing. Her screen credits include productions for
Paramount
Studios, Warner Brothers, ABC, CBS,
and NBC TV.
Klaus’s
reputation for getting the best out of performers spread
to the corporate world when
friends on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley started
calling for help with their speeches and press conferences.
In
1993, she left Hollywood and started her consulting firm
which offers a wide variety of workshops and individual
training in corporate communication and leadership skills,
including crisis communication and management, women's
leadership, executive presence, and presentation 101,
among others.
Klaus is also a frequent speaker at conferences.
In keynote presentations, she has addressed the Women
in Leadership
Summit, San Francisco Trial Lawyers, Pharmacia-Upjohn,
and the Financial Women's Association, among others.
Over the last two years, she has led some 50 BRAG parties
and workshops for leading organizations nationwide.
When she is not coaching, training, lecturing, making television appearances, or giving keynotes in the US, Europe, and Asia, Klaus can be found in Berkeley, California, where she lives with her husband and their adorable pup, Ernie. Klaus was born and raised in Philadelphia.
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