Pat Detmer
Pat Detmer received a Bachelor of Arts at Quincy University in Illinois. After moving from the Midwest, she started her career as a customer service at Herff Jones, where she later became the first woman in that national corporation to manage production employees. She was charged with creating a Materials Manager position for the centralization of the purchasing and outsourcing processes, a position that she next held at Griffin Envelope, now a part of Cenveo. She sold fine paper for over twenty years for Zellerbach and West Coast Paper, and was Sales and Marketing Manager for the latter.
In 2003, she and her husband Fred Canada created The Quincy Group, and in that capacity Pat has provided sales and marketing advice for multiple firms in the Seattle area.
Her specialties are sales consulting and coaching, marketing consulting, event-planning, and copywriting.
Pat was a Toastmaster and won regional speaking contests when she was the only female voice to be heard in competition. You can read more about her speaking and writing career at www.patdetmer.com.
You can e-mail Pat at patdet@aol.com. Her mobile phone is 206-295-6025.