Communications and Public Speaking CoP: "It's a Lectern not a Podium"

As North Carolina PMI Toastmasters begins its new year calendar year, Sharon Hill, Distinguished Toastmaster and Certified Etiquette Trainer, will get members and guests started in learning how to manage a successful meeting by applying meeting etiquette.

Sharon A. Hill, author, speaker and MBA spent more than 20 years as a development and marketing manager at Fortune 500 giant IBM.

She is the president of Sharon Hill International which is her motivational and educational speaking business. Sharon is a certified etiquette trainer, trained by the American Business Etiquette Trainers Association.

Combining her passion for business etiquette, diversity in the workplace and her MBA research on Organizational Behavior, Sharon is recognized as an authority on American business etiquette for companies, universities, groups, associations and individuals.

Sharon has served on several Boards of Directors including:

• 2013-2015 Board of Directors President for Big Brothers Big Sisters – Raleigh Chapter
• 2013-2014 Past President for the National Association of Women Business Owners- Raleigh Chapter.
• 2013-2015 Toastmasters International Director
• 2017 – Present – Goodwill Community Foundation Member

She was recently appointed as a member of the Orange County Economic Development Advisory Board.

Chapel Hill/Carrboro Chamber of Commerce named Sharon Hill as the 2016 Woman Business Owner of the Year.

Sharon is the author of five books that focus on etiquette, succeeding in college and corporate America.   She has been heard on numerous radio programs throughout the country.

She is married to her husband and soul mate, Elmer Hill, and lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.