Timidly, at first, she dipped her toes into the pool of small talk. But, Fine soon realized that conversation, like most things in life, comes easier with practice.

Now the formerly shy, tongue-tied "enginerd" is a nationally recognized keynote speaker, trainer and author.

A former engineer Debra Fine established her Denver based company The FINE Art of Small Talk to teach all variety of professional and the spouse who is dragged along conversational skills for use at networking events, business conventions, trade shows, and with clients, customers and patients. Fine studied the art of conversation as diligently as she had once studied engineering.

A member of the National Speakers Association, Fine receives high accolades from her clients, which include Cisco Systems, COMERICA Bank, the American Bar Association, The US Treasury Department, Toyota, Lockheed Martin, and hundreds of associations including insurance, real estate, legal, financial, engineering, health care, and chambers of commerce and civic organizations across the country.  Debra is also a member of Rotary International and has served on the board of her club during her membership over the past 15 years In addition she is a past member of the Advisory Council of the University Of Colorado School Of Engineering and the Rocky Mountain Anti-Defamation League and currently sits on the Communities Advisory Council of the Junior League

Debra authored the bestselling books The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep it Going, Build Rapport and Leave a Positive Impression (Hyperion) and The Fine Art of Big Talk: How to Win Clients, Deliver Great Presentations, and Solve Conflicts at Work (Hyperion) and her compact disc of the same title is a best seller at FedEx and Franklin Covey stores across the United States.

Debra's recent media appearances include seven time on the Today Show as well as interviews on CNN, The Early Show, NPR, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

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The Fine Art of Art of Developing Business Relationships, Improving Visibility and Gaining Referrals

Join Debra Fine for her fast-paced, interactive and entertaining presentation The Fine Art of Small Talk. Together we'll laugh, learn and leave with insightful and informative conversation tips and techniques.

Learn how to turn every networking event, business meeting, conference and customer interaction into an opportunity for success. Learn how to:

• Build business relationships
• Open conversations and come up with topics to discuss
• Master Introductions and Remember Names
• Find Common Ground
• Create rapport and trust

• Exit conversations with grace
• Talk up your business
• Build Confidence

• Gain visibility
• Come across as composed and self-assured when interacting at events, meetings, networking functions and other business related gatherings

 

 

 

 

            Author and keynote speaker Debra Fine began her career as an engineer, an occupation that allowed her to maintain her natural shyness and avoid situations that required social and personal interactions. Debra designs her presentations and researches her books to teach technically oriented professionals and business owners and managers, conversation skills and networking techniques that help in developing business relationships, improving visibility and gaining referrals. Debra's fast paced, informative and entertaining presentations offer insightful and informative conversation techniques and networking tips on how to strike up conversations and keep them going, avoid conversation "killers", develop business relationships and come across as composed and self-assured when interacting at events, meetings, networking functions and other business related gatherings.

            Debra's newly released (2008) The Fine Art of the Big Talk: How to Win Clients, Deliver Great Presentations, and Solve Conflicts at Work (Hyperion) is her second in the "Fine Art" series following her best selling book The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills-and Leave a Positive Impression.

            Debra is 15 year member of the National Speakers Association presenting her programs to hundreds of audiences around the world to clients that include General Electric, Hensel Phelps Construction, Lockheed Martin, Alaska Forum on the Environment, American Bar Association, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Credit Suisse First Boston and New York University Stern Graduate School of Business. Her best selling first book "The Fine Art of Small Talk" was met with excellent reviews in the Library Journal, USA Today, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Her recent media appearances include The Today Show, The Early Show, NPR Morning Edition, Fox Business News and CNN. View more information about Debra at www.DebraFine.com .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        Her newly released (2008) The Fine Art of the Big Talk: How to Win Clients, Deliver Great Presentations, and Solve Conflicts at Work (Hyperion) is her second in the “Fine Art” series following her best selling book The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills—and Leave a Positive Impression which is sold in a compact disc format in every Kinko's FedEx around the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        Debra is 15 year member of the National Speakers Association presenting her programs to hundreds of audiences around the world to clients that include General Electric, Hensel Phelps Construction, Lockheed Martin, Alaska Forum on the Environment, American Bar Association, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Credit Suisse First Boston and New York University Stern Graduate School of Business. Her best selling first book  The Fine Art of Small Talk was met with excellent reviews in the Library Journal, USA Today, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Her recent media appearances include The Today Show, The Early Show, NPR Morning Edition, Fox Business News and CNN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        Her newly released (2008) The Fine Art of the Big Talk: How to Win Clients, Deliver Great Presentations, and Solve Conflicts at Work (Hyperion) is her second in the “Fine Art” series following her best selling book The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills—and Leave a Positive Impression which is sold in a compact disc format in every Kinko's FedEx around the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        Debra is 15 year member of the National Speakers Association presenting her programs to hundreds of audiences around the world to clients that include General Electric, Hensel Phelps Construction, Lockheed Martin, Alaska Forum on the Environment, American Bar Association, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Credit Suisse First Boston and New York University Stern Graduate School of Business. Her best selling first book  The Fine Art of Small Talk was met with excellent reviews in the Library Journal, USA Today, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Her recent media appearances include The Today Show, The Early Show, NPR Morning Edition, Fox Business News and CNN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        Her newly released (2008) The Fine Art of the Big Talk: How to Win Clients, Deliver Great Presentations, and Solve Conflicts at Work (Hyperion) is her second in the “Fine Art” series following her best selling book The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills—and Leave a Positive Impression which is sold in a compact disc format in every Kinko's FedEx around the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        Debra is 15 year member of the National Speakers Association presenting her programs to hundreds of audiences around the world to clients that include General Electric, Hensel Phelps Construction, Lockheed Martin, Alaska Forum on the Environment, American Bar Association, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Credit Suisse First Boston and New York University Stern Graduate School of Business. Her best selling first book  The Fine Art of Small Talk was met with excellent reviews in the Library Journal, USA Today, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Her recent media appearances include The Today Show, The Early Show, NPR Morning Edition, Fox Business News and CNN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        Her newly released (2008) The Fine Art of the Big Talk: How to Win Clients, Deliver Great Presentations, and Solve Conflicts at Work (Hyperion) is her second in the “Fine Art” series following her best selling book The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills—and Leave a Positive Impression which is sold in a compact disc format in every Kinko's FedEx around the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        Debra is 15 year member of the National Speakers Association presenting her programs to hundreds of audiences around the world to clients that include General Electric, Hensel Phelps Construction, Lockheed Martin, Alaska Forum on the Environment, American Bar Association, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Credit Suisse First Boston and New York University Stern Graduate School of Business. Her best selling first book  The Fine Art of Small Talk was met with excellent reviews in the Library Journal, USA Today, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Her recent media appearances include The Today Show, The Early Show, NPR Morning Edition, Fox Business News and CNN.