18 Years Achievements

Since 1987, when Ms. Lett was certified as a professional trainer in Business & Social Etiquette, Business & Social Entertaining, International Protocol and Executive Communications Skills, she has been a seminar speaker and coach around the world - teaching and advising on these subjects.  Currently she consults with companies including MCI Telecommunications, Chevron Overseas Petroleum and J. P. Morgan on these subjects. Additionally she offers private and corporate consultation and seminars on the power skills necessary to compete in the international business arena. Clients include major universities, Fortune 500 companies, international associations and savvy professionals from all levels of the corporate ladder.

Ms. Lett is the principal of The Lett Group, an organization which offers speaking and training programs on the above mentioned subjects.  She is also the editor of APROPOS! - a monthly newsletter on these subjects.

Since 1983 and presently - Ms. Lett is PRESIDENT & OWNER of Creative Planning International - a consulting firm, specializing in producing meetings and events for corporations and associations nationwide.  In this capacity Ms. Lett has planned over 2,400 meetings of 5-4,000 participants for corporations and associations in 102 countries. In 1987 she produced a training program for other meeting planners in how to plan international meetings.  She has been featured and quoted in publications such as The Age Education Magazine,  Office.com,  Prime Life, FSB: Corporate Gift-Giving 101,  Meetings & Conventions,  The Business Journal,  SGMP NATCAP,  Pioneer Living, Phone +,  and not to forget Entrepreneur Magazine,  The Harvard Business Review,  Ohio Business Review,  Training and Development Journal,  CIO Magazine and others.  During 1990, Ms. Lett planned a series of Business Exchange meetings in the Soviet Union for entrepreneurs from the United States who wished to learn about joint ventures with the Soviets in many different fields.  Some of Creative Planning International's clients have included Wall Street Journal, A. T. & T., MCI Telecommunications Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, Department of State, McKinsey and Company, Datapoint Corporation, Duracell International, Security Pacific among others.

For two years, Ms. Lett served as Director of Meeting Services for American Healthcare Institute responsible for over 1800 meetings each year. Thereafter, she worked for three years as Manager, Corporate Events and Meetings for MCI Communications Corporation.  For the past four years, she has been a frequent speaker at Meeting Professionals Association conventions and local association meetings on the subjects of International Protocol and Business Etiquette.

Ms. Lett holds a Master of Legal Studies degree from Antioch School of Law, Washington, D.C. and undergraduate degrees in Restaurant, Hotel, & Institutional Management and Public Relations from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Professionally, Ms. Lett is an active member of the American Society for Training and Development; Washington, D.C. Convention and Visitors Association; Women Business Owners; Professional Convention Management Association; and past member of the American Society of Association Executives; Foundation for International Meetings (Board of Governors 1986-1987). She was elected into Who's Who of American Women; Who's Who of Advertising Executives; 2000 Notable American Women; Who's Who of the World's Women; Who's Who of U.S. Executives and Who's Who of the World.