Jill-Marie, Founder
Jill-Marie is a certified consultant, instructor and speaker in the areas of proper etiquette, personal presentation, and successful social skills. Her passion is to equip people of all ages with the skills needed to succeed in life. “Your first impression makes a lasting impression, so you’d better make it count,” is a statement you will hear Jill-Marie strongly proclaim.
Don’t allow your past failures to dictate future opportunities. If you lack certain skills that hinder your success, learn them! It is one’s “soft skills” that will either open or close doors of opportunity.
Jill-Marie has an enthusiasm for life that is catching. Her profitable instruction is well received as she uses personal examples, group interaction, and constructive training that is often sprinkled with humor. She is candid and transparent, inviting others to take an honest evaluation of themselves, and raise their own personal bar.
Receiving her training at Patricia Stephens Career College and Finishing School, Jill-Marie pursued a successful career in sales. As a representative of a prominent cosmetic company, she has experienced first-hand the decline in common courtesies. Additionally, she has observed the lack of confidence and awareness in those interactive skills among individuals of all ages and in all walks of life. Merging her education, sales profession, and public relations experience, she began to write curriculum for the business she knew she one day would have. Hence, First Impressions emerged in 2003.
Personal presentation, social skills, good manners, positive image combined with up-standing ethics and values are the skills required to succeed and advance in one’s business, social and personal life. One does not just naturally have these skills within. Due to the advancement in technology, dependence on electronic communication, compounded with the fast-paced life of this generation, the opportunity to learn these skills have weakened, therefore need to be demonstrated and taught, and Jill-Marie is doing just that.
Her expertise has allowed her to consult, train and equip people of all ages and with all backgrounds. Political figures, Fortune 500 companies, CEO’s, universities, community programs and many others have benefited and personally advanced from her valuable training.
Jill-Marie has been quoted by The Toledo Blade, Toledo Free Press, Business Advantage, and Toledo Business Review. She has contributed articles to Parent News, The City Paper, and local business papers. Jill-Marie has been a featured guest on radio talk shows, local television and cable network stations.
When meeting Jill-Marie, it is evident that her passion is her profession, as she strives to equip people with the skills needed to succeed in life.
Jill-Marie lives in Ohio, where she resides with her husband of 31 years and is blessed with two grown children.