shelly-baur-nawbo-memphisAuthor of the book and CD, Integrity-Based Communications Using truth to get what you really want, Shelley Page Baur has extensive business experience in marketing, field sales, communications, training, learning and development.  Shelley has designed materials and conducted workshops for all levels of employees, emphasizing personal analysis and skill development. Combining her passion and multiple communications skills, she especially likes to work with professionals with expertise who want to brand themselves and effectively integrate education with marketing communications.

An entrepreneur since 1986, Shelley’s independent consulting projects included work for such varied groups as small business owners, and Fortune 100 business units, network marketing organizations and universities. Seminars she developed include Integrity-Based Communications and Living on Purpose: Tools for Building the Life You Really Want.  Programs specifically designed for entrepreneurs building sales organizations included interviewing, recruiting and hiring, negotiating, consultative selling techniques, team-building and leadership skills, among other topics.  Previously she was VP-Communications for one of the largest security companies in America.

Shelley is a certified facilitator for Brian Tracy’s Phoenix Seminar for Maximum Achievement and Entrepreneurial Education Foundation programs, which she has taught at The University of Memphis, Fogelman College of Business & Economics.  She is also a certified facilitator for Development Dimensions International (DDI) programs.

A graduate of The University of Memphis (B.A. in psychology), Shelley is a graduate/ past board member and program chair for Leadership Memphis, founding member/past president of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), past president for Sales & Marketing Executives of Memphis/board member, SME-International. She is a member of Toastmasters International, where she has served in multiple leadership roles. She currently mentors students at the University of Memphis.  For Leadership Memphis she stays involved with Common Ground: Conversations on Race, Communities in Action and The Memphis Talent Dividend, co-chairing the Community Collaborative and overseeing their speakers’ bureau

Shelley has been honored by Memphis Woman magazine as one of “Fifty Women Who make a Difference,” Athena Award recipient as a role model for mentoring and community leadership, and IRIS Award winner for encouraging women entrepreneurs.

In 2008, Leadership Memphis honored her with their “Distinguished Alumnus Award.”

Married to John Baur, professor of music theory and composition at The University of Memphis, Shelley is equally crazy about her two married “bonus kids,” Jim and Christa, who live in Chicago and New York, respectively.