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Media Personnel To schedule an interview, please contact: Mary Byers is a national speaker who is dedicated to helping people live and work more fully. An award-winning communicator and member of the National Speakers Association, Byers has been speaking professionally since 1988. She currently consults with, and speaks to, a wide variety of associations, corporations, civic groups, women’s groups and social service agencies. A professional writer for 20 years, Byers is the author of The Mother Load: How to Meet Your Own Needs While Caring for Your Family, How to Say No and Live to Tell About It and Extraordinary Women. She has also written for several publications, including Entrepreneur, Association Management, and the Fort Wayne News Sentinel. In addition, she is currently a columnist for two professional trade publications and managing editor for a quarterly journal. Byers is a frequent media guest, discussing women’s topics on national radio and television programs produced by the Total Living Network , Crossroads Christian Communications, LeSea Broadcasting, North American Mission Board, Moody Broadcasting, and Trinity TV. She has been quoted in Women’s Day, Parents, and Organic Style magazines and featured in the State Journal-Register, The Pantagraph and The Janesville Gazette. Byers graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Telecommunications. She is a Certified Association Executive and a member of the Advanced Writers and Speakers. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, she worked as Director of Communications and Member Services for the Illinois State Dental Society, as Director of Advertising for the International Order of the Golden Rule and as Assistant Advertising Director of Marine Bank of Springfield, Illinois. Byers served as a Board Member for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Sangamon County, Illinois and was named Big Sister of the Year in 1992. The Illinois Society of Association Executives recognized her with its Association Excellence Award in 1996 and its President’s Award in 1997. She has also received many other awards for publishing and promotion. Byers and her husband, Stuart, reside in Illinois with their two youngest children. |
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