Barbara B. Bergstrom is Executive Director of Greetings: Voice - Image - Communications, a leading etiquette and protocol training company with offices in Chicago and Orlando. She offers a wide range of cross-cultural etiquette and protocol training and consulting services. An award-winning trainer, motivational speaker and author, she has generated articles and training films that have been distributed nationally.

Barbara was educated in private preparatory schools in Chicago and attended the University of Texas, where she majored in mass communications. Following certification by the nation's most prestigious etiquette and protocol school in Washington, D.C., she established the International Association of Independent Etiquette and Protocol Consultants. Currently, Barbara serves as Vice-President and Chief Protocol Officer of the International Council of Central Florida under the auspices of the U.S. Secretary of State.

A Distinguished Toastmaster, Barbara received the Toastmaster of the Year award for the state of Florida and the Bahamas in 2000 and is the Protocol Officer of a 10-state region including Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, plus the entire islands of the Bahamas.

As a recognized authority on executive presence and international protocol, Barbara is regularly featured on television and radio talk shows and in local and national publications. Her weekly nationally syndicated column "Executive Etiquette" appears in business journals across the country.

Her book, Bound for the Boardroom, available in English and Spanisth, has become a favorite item for corporate and educational training and gift-giving.