Founders

Founders

Ty Boyd at a glance

Founder:
Excellence in Speaking Institute®, celebrating its 28th anniversary this year. Thousands of graduates from over 40 countries.
Speaker:
Clients include Aetna, Apple, CBS, GM, Ford, Chrysler, IGA, IBM, Westinghouse, Exxon.
Biggest audience:
80,000 at the Georgia Dome.
Stage personality:
For hundreds of corporate programs. Includes Master of Ceremonies, International Retailer of the Year
Author:
Visions, From the Leaders of Today for the Leaders of Tomorrow.
(On Leadership)
Insights Into Excellence
(co-author with Speakers Roundtable) (On Leadership/Management)
Speaking Secrets of the Masters (co-authored with Speakers Roundtable)
The Million Dollar Toolbox
A blueprint for transforming your life and your career with powerful communication skills.

Ty Boyd

Ty Boyd is unparalleled in the nation as a speaker and communications coach. He has delivered keynotes and conducted seminars on five continents to more than a million people. He is one of the few speakers worldwide to receive the speaking industry's three highest honors, including the Oscar of the National Speakers Association -- The Cavett Award.

Ty has been inducted into both the Broadcast Hall of Fame and Speakers Hall of Fame. He is also a member of Speakers Roundtable, considered the top 20 speakers in the country.

In 1980, with his wife and business partner, Pat, Ty founded Ty Boyd Executive Learning Systems to teach top business executives the speaking skills he has honed over a lifetime.

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Pat Boyd

Businesswoman, ESI Co-founder, Communications Consultant,
Marketing Professional

Pat Boyd is president and co-founder of the Excellence in Speaking Institute®. She has been an ESI coach since 1988, and also does private consultations through our Executive Partnership program. With her direct, warm style, Pat helps students become more capable, confident speakers and presenters.

Pat's career in communications began long before her involvement with ESI. Early in her career, she represented the cotton industry worldwide on stage, radio, and TV as the National Maid of Cotton. "I gave up to three speeches a day," she recalls. Pat also was a model in New York, appeared in a variety of television commercials, and worked on the Merv Griffin Show.

Following the ultimate communication challenge -- raising six children -- Pat opened Charlotte Visitours, a company that gave tours of her hometown, Charlotte, NC, to spouses of corporate executives. Pat ran that company for five years before deciding to devote herself full-time to ESI. "This was absolutely the best place for me," she says. "I'm here to help executives -- and all kinds of business people -- fine-tune their innate skills."