Nancy Coey

Biography

Warm, witty, and honest, Nancy Coey has the unique ability to see the extra-ordinary in the ordinary. With her conversational style and common-sense content, audiences come away feeling that she has spoken directly to them.

Nancy developed her keen eyesight from more than twenty years of teaching the Dreaded Freshman English. (Nancy taught both writing and public speaking at Ohio State University, the University of Hawaii, and North Carolina State University, and her work has been highlighted on the PBS series, "Excellence in Teaching"). In helping students "train their eyes," Nancy trained her own. As a result, her programs are filled with original material -- material you will hear nowhere else.

In over ten years as a motivational keynote speaker, Nancy has built a reputation for original and memorable stories. Her presentation for the National Speakers Association, "Creating Memorable Material," was the Atlanta Workshop`s #1 best-selling tape.

Nancy writes the way she speaks. Her book, Finding Gifts in Everyday Life, a collection of true stories from her own life, is in its 5th printing and is a B. Dalton "Book of the Week."

Nancy and her husband, Don, have been married for thirty years and have two grown sons. They have traded in the folding chairs they used to carry from soccer to football to baseball fields and now spend time watching deer eat the green things they had so lovingly planted in their backyard.

Publications

"Finding Gifts In Everyday Life"

If you`re looking for a burst of happiness in your life, this book is for you!

Author and Motivational Speaker Nancy Coey shares with us true stories from her own life: moments that are ordinary and everyday in their content, but far from ordinary in their tenderness and insight.

You will see yourself in these pages as you read about Encouragement; Mistakes and Fear; Middle Age: The Good News; Goals and Hard Work... and what you see will give you a new look at the best in yourself.

This is the kind of book you`ll want to read many times, and in any order. Since "life is long and has many parts," (p.24) the book`s different parts will offer new meaning for you each time you read - and reread - them.

Titles

What Would Happen If I DID Remove the Mattress Tag?!?

Finding Gifts In Everyday Life

I Want Juice in My Life... But Why Do I Always Have to Do All the Squeezing Myself?!?

Why Can`t Everyone Be Like Me??? (a 45-60 Minute Breakout Session)

Four Secrets of Powerful Communication (a 45-60 Minute Breakout Session)

Nurses Program: Celebrating the Difference You Make!

Programs for Teachers