User talk:Marty Brounstein

An Author On a Journey With a Mission The courage and compassion to do the right thing; that’s a major theme that resonates with audiences when they hear San Mateo, CA-based author Marty Brounstein talk on his book Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust. Since 1991 Marty has the led the consulting firm The Practical Solutions Group, serving a wide variety of clients across many industries on issues of leadership and organizational effectiveness. Through this work, he has written seven books, from contributing author to solo author, including Communicating Effectively For Dummies and Coaching and Mentoring For Dummies.

But his eighth book is quite different and special. It has put Marty in the interfaith business, as he has a story of a Christian couple, Frans and Mien Wijnakker, who saved the lives of at least two dozen Jews in the Netherlands during World War II and the Holocaust. This book takes Marty back to his early career as an educator, when he taught history including the Holocaust.

This true and remarkable story has a meaningful personal connection as well, which Marty reveals in his engaging storytelling presentations.

Marty has been on quite an unexpected journey of sharing this special story with audiences, now into its third year. Since he started in the fall of 2011, he has completed over 200 events and counting. The engagements have been in such places as churches, synagogues, community centers, Hadassah groups, people’s homes, Rotary Clubs, bookstores, schools, universities, libraries, book clubs, a Holocaust museum, and workplaces. In fact, he has been a speaker for Holocaust Remembrance Day events, most recently in April 2013 at the renowned Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. He’ll be such a keynote speaker again in the Chicago area in spring 2014.

His talks have occurred throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and other cities as well, including Phoenix, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver and Los Angeles this past November. In baseball lingo, Marty is batting .1000 in terms of positive audience response. So the journey to share this special story continues and thanks to audience encouragement is now on the trail to get this story turned into a movie.

Marty Brounstein _____________________________________________________________ Contact: Marty Brounstein Author:  Two Among the Righteous Few:  A Story of Courage in the Holocaust 951 Shoreline Drive, San Mateo, CA 94404 (650) 341-8001 and e-mail: mabruns@earthlink.net Website: www.MartyABrounstein.com