The Power of Pause: How to be More Effective in a Demanding, 24/7 World

Nance Guilmartin is a four-time regional Emmy Award winner, executive coach, consultant, and educator.  As a Westinghouse Broadcasting executive she launched the Designated Driver program and the For Kids' Sake and Time to Care campaigns. Before entering television, she was press secretary to the late U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas.  A Tufts University graduate, she honed her listening skills as a news writer at CBS radio in Boston and as editorial director at WBZ-TV.  Nance is a Trustee of AACR, the nation's oldest and largest scientific organization focused on cancer research, and is a Fellow of Florida International University's Center for Leadership.  Her book Healing Conversations: What to Say When You Don't Know What to Say (Wiley, 2002) has been published in twelve languages.