Cynthia Lett

Internationally respected expert and author in international etiquette and protocol. Director of the International Society of Protocol & Etiquette Professionals.

Cynthia Lett is currently the only international etiquette & protocol expert holding both the Certified Etiquette Professional (CEP) and Certified Protocol Professional (CPP) in the world.  These are designations earned by examination through the International Society of Protocol & Etiquette Professionals.  Since 1985, her expertise has been as a professional consultant in Business & Social Etiquette, Business & Social Entertaining, International Protocol and Executive Communications Skills. She has been a seminar speaker and coach around the world -offering private and corporate consultation and seminars on the power skills necessary to compete in the international business arena. Clients include major universities, Fortune 500 companies, international associations and savvy professionals from all levels of the corporate ladder. She taught the Masters level course, "Business Protocol" for the George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs for seven years.  Her latest book, "That's So Annoying: An Etiquette Expert On The World's Most Irritating Habits And What To Do About Them" (Skyhorse Publishing, New York) was released in July, 2009.

Ms. Lett is a regular on-air contributor to Fox News Channel, Fox Business Channel, MSNBC and CNN and various radio talk shows nationwide. As a frequent contributor to trade and business publications, she ranks as one of the most widely quoted etiquette and protocol experts in the United States of America. Ms. Lett is featured on the FineLiving Channel as an office etiquette expert and in a PBS special called Pioneer Living as the International Etiquette Expert.  She has been honored as Outstanding Alumna of Purdue University twice and as a Distinguished Darden Professor by the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management of Purdue University.

Since 1983 and still- Ms. Lett is PRESIDENT & OWNER of Creative Planning International- a consulting firm specializing in producing meetings and events for corporations and associations internationally.  In this capacity Ms. Lett has planned over 2,400 meetings of 5-4,000 participants for corporations and associations in 102 countries. In 1987 she produced a training program for other meeting planners in how to pla

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