Deborah Shames is an award-winning director of film and TV. She founded the only female-owned production company in the San Francisco Bay Area, Focal Point Productions, which she ran for fifteen years. Deborah has directed luminaries including Wendie Malick, Rita Moreno, Danny Glover, and Angela Lansbury. To launch three of her independent films, she formed the video distribution company, Deborah Films. Today, Deborah is frequently engaged for national conferences as a keynote speaker or coach, and for leadership development training. Deborah specializes in working with female executives. She preps authors, CEOs, Olympic athletes, and TV anchors before national media tours, and works with celebrity and on-air talent at major studios. Deborah led a prominent business group in Calabasas and was honored as “Consultant of the Year” by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal.

David Booth has represented global corporations in trade shows throughout the U.S. and Europe.  He has served as spokesman and on-camera narrator for hundreds of training videos in banking, technology, energy, and telecommunications. David has also guest-starred on television series including The Practice, Judging Amy, Gilmore Girls and played Drew Barrymore’s father in the film Scream. David has an MFA in Directing, designed the Advanced Acting Program at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, performed leading roles at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and in the original ensemble of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He was Managing Director of the Tennessee Williams Center in Key West and acted in a Tennessee Williams world premiere.

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