Abby Marks Beale

Abby Marks Beale is a business productivity specialist and consummate educator who enjoys helping busy professionals work smarter, faster and just plain better. Her programs on faster reading, email management and time and stress management help people reduce workplace stress through the knowledge of skills.

Over the past 20 years, she has worked with a wide variety of client organizations including Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, government agencies, associations and schools. She is the founder of The Corporate Educator LLC, a speaking and training company that helps people learn the essential work skills people wish they learned in school through keynote sessions, workshops, teleclasses, online learning, books and other educational products.

Abby is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Speed Reading, 10 Days to Faster Reading and a college study skills textbook entitled Success Skills: Strategies for Study and Lifelong Learning 3^e. She recently created an online course entitled Rev It Up Reading: Getting Up To Speed With What You Read now available for individuals and for corporate licensing. Software she created by the same name promises to get readers up to speed in just 30 minutes!

Abby is the Founder and Past-President of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Speakers Association. She also holds long-time professional affiliations with the National Speaker's Association (NSA), The American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), and The International Reading Association (IRA).

Her education includes a Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish and French from Boston University and a Master's Degree in Adult Education from Southern Connecticut State University. She is currently pursuing an education in homeopathy. She considers her formal education as just a starting point in the life-long process in learning how to learn.