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WELLS

 

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Thelma Wells has over 30 years of experience traveling globally speaking to corporations like: IBM, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Internal Revenue Service, Baylor Hospital, Coldwater Federal Penitentiary, University of Michigan, American Assocation of Christian Counselors, The House of Hope, Lutons Bank - United Kingdom, The Electricity Supply Company of Dublin, Ireland, and The University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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She has also spoken to numerous other organizations, corporations, universities, banks, governmental agencies and institutions throughout the world.

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Thelma specializes in the art of motivating, inspiring and equipping people to "BEE Their Best."  Her first speech has become her most requested:  "A Formula for Success."

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She learned the art of business and customer delight from being a trailblazer.  Thelma was the first Black woman in the South to organize her own international speaking and consulting company customizing eighteen different programs for her clients.

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Prior to speaking, she worked for John Deere Company and then NorthPark Bank (now Comerica) in Dallas, Texas.  She became the first Black woman in the South to become an Assistant Vice President of a major bank.  It was there that she grew to understand and love the importance of great customer service.  In fact, she wrote a manual for New Accounts that became the standard in the industry.

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Today, she is still teaching others to respect their customers, believe in themselves, and expect the best from others.  And with her years of experience, she is excellent in coaching executives in public speaking skills.  Her book, Capture Your Audience Through Storytelling was sold at the National Speakers Association and is still helping others become captive speakers today.

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She is married and lives in Dallas with her husband, three children, nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

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KEYWORDS: CUSTOMER SERVICE - MOTIVATION - PUBLIC SPEAKING

SPEAKER.   AUTHOR.  PROFESSOR.  MOTHER.   MENTOR.

Thelma Wells has a long history of leading leadership coaching and mentoring sessions. She has graduated nearly 100 women from her DOZ Leadership and Mentoring Class started in 2000. Additionally, she instructed hundreds of women through weekly taped sessions for Compass Life Coaching. Here are some of her accomplishments that show her personal leadership abilities:

Thelma’s Firsts:

 

Thelma Wells is a trailblazer in the community and corporate America. She has been the first black woman to open doors in the following professions and organizations:

 

1964 - First black woman hired in the Southwest as a secretary at the John Deere Company, Dallas, Texas.

1978 - Recognized in newspapers and magazines as the first black woman to become an Assistant Vice President of a commercial bank, NorthPark National Bank, Dallas, Texas.

 

1980 - First black Woman in the South to organize her own international speaking and consulting company customizing eighteen different programs for corporations, governmental agencies, universities, and Luton Bank of England. Thelma received the Small Business Administration’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

 

1996 - First black woman to become a core speaker for the largest Christian Women’s Movement in the world, the Women of Faith Conference.

 

2000 - First black woman to find and implement a national mentoring program for women in ministry - The Daughters of Zion Leadership Mentoring Program. This program has graduated fifty women and has two DOZ Mentors (one in the State of Delaware and another in the city of San Antonio, Texas).

 

2002 – First black woman to become a professor at Master’s Divinity School and Graduate School in Evansville, Indiana. A Women’s Issues Department was created as a result of the books and programs she developed.

Countries Thelma has spoken in: 

Australia, Bahamas, Canada, Dominican Republic, Germany, Ghana,

Greece, India, Israel, Kenya, Korea, South, New Zealand, Panama, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom: England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, United States:  Every State in the United States, Virgin Islands.

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Thelma's Speaker's Tours:  
 
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Women of Faith Final Tour, "Loved" - You are seen, known, free, and loved.

Thelma Wells' Community Talk at TurtleCreekWomen Tedx Event:  "A WATCHING COMMUNITY"

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