Deb Sofield
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 its 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.