Deb Sofield - Executive Speech Coach
Deb Sofield is President of her own Executive Speech & Presentations Coaching Co., which trains women and men for success in speaking, presentation skills and message development in the U.S. and abroad.
Sofield won the Order of the Palmetto – the State of South Carolina’s highest honor awarded by the Governor. She was named “Communicator of the Year” by the Association for Women in Communications and won the prestigious Toastmasters District 58 Communication and Leadership Award for the state of South Carolina. She was also awarded the Strom Thurmond Excellence in Public Service honor and was chosen as the 2005 ATHENA AWARD recipient by the Greenville Chamber of Commerce for her work with young people and aspiring politicians. Deb is a member of the National Speakers Association.
Deb Sofield is a visiting professor, teaching public speaking at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government - Women in Public Policy Program, the Woman’s Campaign School at Yale University (where Sofield is Past President of the Board), the University of South Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications and the Thurmond Institute’s Self Civic Fellows program Ethics in Government program at Clemson University. Sofield also works with the International Republican Institute of Washington, DC teaching, Communications Training for Civil Society around the world. She was a mentor and trainer for CLIME The Center for Liberty in the Middle East helping plant seed of democracy in the middle east.
Actively involved in her community, Sofield represents the City of Greenville as a Commissioner of Public Works for the Water System and is the first woman to hold this position since it’s inception in 1918. Sofield was formerly a member of Greenville City Council, where she holds one of the highest vote victories in a district City election by overwhelmingly winning every precinct.