About Us

Abby Marks Beale is the founder and CEO of The Corporate Educator. She is a speaker and trainer who creates and delivers content-rich programs using accelerated learning and adult learning principles that make it easy for participants to learn. Her topics of speciality include speed reading, email management and etiquette, and time and stress management. Abby's corporate workshops and conference presentations are highly interactive, thought-provoking and immediately applicable to the real world.

Abby is a published author of many articles and several books, most recently The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Reading (read more...) Abby also wrote 10 Days to Faster Reading, published by Warner Books. Her college level text, Success Skills, Strategies for Study and Lifelong Learning is now in its third edition and published by Southwestern/ITP. Abby is also the content editor for Read More, Faster. . . On-Screen!, a revolutionary ebook written by our associate Pam Mullan.

Abby is the creator of Rev It Up Reading: Getting Up To Speed With What You Read, a new online course available in the Fall of 2008. This course is based on a previous online class she developed and taught for Barnes and Noble Online University. The new online course will incorporate exercises and material from her 10 Days to Faster Reading book.

Abby received her Bachelors of Arts in Spanish from Boston University and her Masters of Science in Adult Education from Southern Connecticut State University. She receives a large part of her professional development from her memberships in National Speakers Association (NSA), American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) and the International Reading Association (IRA). She is currently pursuing an education in homeopathic medicine.

Pamela Mullan is a skilled facilitator of The Corporate Educator's reading programs and the co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Reading. She is also the author of Read More, Faster . . .On-Screen!, our ebook for on-screen speed reading.

Since 1988, she has been a trainer and course developer for adult education courses, including hard-copy speed reading, on-screen speed reading, computer writing, business writing, creative thinking and computer training.

In 1994, Pam founded the Reading Development Institute based in Dublin, Ireland. The institute specializes in providing hard-copy speed reading programs for government agencies, corporations, professional organizations, colleges, high schools, and graduate and adult education programs.

She is currently an Assistant Professor of Reading at Onondaga Community College in New York.

Pam earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. Her master’s degree in education from Trinity College (Dublin) is focused on on-screen speed reading.

Karin's program, Energize to Maximize, focuses on learning and experiencing ways to re-energize and rejuvenate participants through humor, fun and movement.

Karin IS energy!  She combines her background in teaching, corporate training and dance to deliver her message with creativity and passion.

Karin has extensive experience in participatory instructor-led classes in soft and technical skills training for the sales and service environment in the direct marketing industry. She is a certified AchieveGlobal facilitator in The Service Difference and is qualified to administer the DiSC ® Personal Profile System.

Karin’s unique background in teaching, has supplied her presentations with creativity and passion.  She has created a lively style of communicating by using her experiences as a professional jazz dancer, teacher & choreographer.

She is a member of the National Speakers Association and American Society of Training and Development.  She also has accomplished CTM status in Toastmasters International and is the immediate past president and founder of a newly formed club at the Corporate Towers in Shelton.

Currently Karin is the corporate training and development specialist at Iroquois Pipeline in Shelton, Connecticut, where she designs and delivers training in effective meetings and communications, time management, performance management,  train-the-trainer and effective presentation skills.

She is the CEO of  Whitley Performance Group, LLC and has published Unleash Your Energy: 40+ Tips to Energize You Throughout Your Day.

Ilana G. Traverse has more than 25 years of experience as a highly accomplished consultant, instructional designer, and facilitator. She delivers customized learning solutions that enhance performance in written communication, management, and teamwork. Her innovative, targeted workshops and coaching strategies increase business professionals’ competence and confidence in their communication skills.

Founder and principal of IMA Associates since 1998, Ilana held senior training and human resources management positions at major New England financial services institutions. In these roles, Ilana partnered with cross-functional clients to plan and implement staff development initiatives.

Ilana also is an instructor for Holt Learning in New York; Communication Management, Inc. in Eastham; the Workforce Development Center at Bunker Hill Community College, and the Center for Business and Industry at Bristol Community College.

Ilana holds a B.S. in family and consumer studies from the University of New Hampshire and an M.S. in human resource management from Lesley University.

Nancy Follis Wilms, Ed.M. is a speaker, trainer and coach, who developed Yoga in the Office as the result of her 15 years of experience working with major corporations to improve health, performance and productivity on the job.

Bringing yoga “off the mat and into the office,” Nancy teaches practical tools, techniques and strategies to relieve stress, enhance well-being and improve performance on the job.  She incorporates in her instruction techniques from the Anusara Yoga, Ashtanga or Power Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Kundalini Yoga and Therapeutic Yoga traditions.

Certified as an instructor by the Yoga Alliance, Nancy earned her Master's degree form Harvard (Ed.M.), where she focused on the promotion of behavioral change in corporate environments for improved health, performance and productivity. She also received training in mind/body sciences at Harvard.

Nancy's business background includes founding a consulting firm that ran health and job performance program for more over 50 corporate and government clients. She also operated two health-related franchise businesses.

Nancy is a member of the National Speaker’s Association, Entrepreneurial Women’s Network, Toastmaster’s International, and the American Society of Training and Development, and she has been an adjunct faculty member at New York University.  A lively and engaging instructor, Nancy is  a member of the comedy troupe, World Class Indifference.

Peter Frampton teaches accounting, the essential language of business. He brings to the classroom a passion for empowering people, especially non-accountants. In particular, he loves to help people experience the feeling,  “I can!” 

Peter is an Australian citizen who grew up in South Africa. He received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Cape Town and qualified as a CPA (Chartered Accountant) while working at KPMG in Sydney, Australia.  He has run businesses in the medical, technology, non-profit and education industries in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.  In addition to leading workshops for The Corporate Educator, Peter is president and one of the founders of Accounting Comes Alive.  

Peter and his wife Carole have two daughters and live in Washington, DC.

Izzy Gesell is an organizational alchemist who helps individuals and organizations transform their thinking from commonplace to extraordinary.

Through his keynotes, trainings, coaching and facilitated sessions, Izzy offers imaginative, intuitive and immediately useful insights and programs. He is skilled at delivering meaningful material in a way that makes participants enjoy their time with him.