User:Diane Windingland

Author of five books: Small Talk Big Results, Perfect Phrases for Icebreakers, Cat Got Your Tongue?, Speech Class for Teens, and 12 Ways to Be a Confident Speaker
 * Wikipedia and the internet have become my main sources of research
 * Wikipedia is often my "jumping off" point to further research, so I greatly appreciate referenced article
 * Wikipedia, unfortunately, is not considered "academic" enough for college research papers, as I found out when helping my daughter with a paper
 * I used to home-school my children
 * I started out as an engineer, working for General Dynamics
 * I now speak professionally and my business is Small Talk Big Results
 * I also am a presentation coach and my coaching business is Virtual Speech Coach