About Marilyn Sherman, CSP, CPAE

Marilyn Sherman, CSP, CPAE has worked with clients in the speaking profession for over 25 years. In those years, she has motivated audiences to get out of their comfort zone and get a front-row seat in life. Marilyn is also the author of four motivational books including “Is There A Hole In Your Bucket List? “, “Whose Comfort Zone Are You In?”, “Why Settle for the Balcony, how to get a Front-Row Seat in Life” and “Front-Row Service”.

After starting her career in corporate America, she is now seen as the go-to motivational keynote speaker for corporate and association markets that want their people to improve their morale, teamwork, and communication skills and ultimately achieve more results. With her background as a training officer for a major finance company, Marilyn honed her skills to motivate audiences who are often hard to motivate. With her engaging, and fun personality, Marilyn connects with her audiences quickly and delivers content that they can immediately use when they get back to their office.

Marilyn is a graduate of Washington State University and after working for Chrysler First Financial Services, she was a contract speaker for one of the top seminar companies in the United States and Canada. She officially received road warrior status after delivering six-hour professional development seminars up to 5 cities a week up to three weeks a month for five years! In 1998, she founded UpFront Presentations, a speaking and training company serving companies in the corporate, franchise, and direct sales world just to name a few. She has earned her Certified Speaking Professional designation, the highest earned designation in the speaking profession, held by less than 12% of professional speakers worldwide.

She has served in several capacities for the National Speakers Association, where she learned to grow her speaking business. She loves living in Las Vegas and serves on the board of The Village Of Hope, an after school program for underprivileged kids.

About Your Host, Niki McCuistion, CSP

As a speaker Niki focuses on leadership and strategy. She has spoken on almost every continent. Niki is a past president of NSA-NT, the 1^st Charbonneau Award recipient and the 1^st woman to chair NSA National's Voices of Experience interview series. 

As the producer/ executive producer of the PBS tv program on KERA PBS, now on the air for 32 years, she has chosen guests for the program and has coached 100’s of heads of states, celebrities and just  plain every day folks on how to  wow audiences.

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