Marydee Sklar’s Media Kit
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Marydee Sklar, Time Management Educator, Author, Speaker, Consultant and Entrepreneur
Micro Bio (87 words)
As an educator, Marydee Sklar has helped families and individuals overcome struggles with time management for over 29 years. She is the creator of the Seeing My Time® Course, and is the author of Seeing My Time™ books and 50 Tips to Help Students Succeed. She is the developer of planners for adults and students. She offers online professional courses for educators and professionals. She lives in Portland, OR.
For more information about Marydee, her books, her planners, and her courses, visit https://www.ExecutiveFunctioningSuccess.com
Short Bio (215 words)
As a time management educator in a private practice, Marydee Sklar has helped families struggling with time management for over twenty-nine years. Her unique approach to teaching time management comes from her experience as a reading specialist as well as her own experience with executive function deficits.
She is the author of three Seeing My Time™ books, including her book for parents: 50 Tips to Help Students Succeed. Her previous titles, the Seeing My Time Workbook and its companion Seeing My Time – Instructor’s Manual were designed for professionals to use in therapeutic or educational settings. She is the developer of the acclaimed Set Up Success® academic planners for students and the Seeing My Time® planners for adults.
Marydee has been a popular speaker for conferences at the state and national level where she has addressed how to teach the executive functions of time management, planning, and organization. As the founder of Executive Functioning Success, she is creating a network of trained professionals to teach the Seeing My Time™ course to their clients and students.
Marydee raised two children with whom she shares a love of food and travel adventures. She has been married to her husband for over 41 years. They live in Portland, Oregon.
For more information about Marydee, her books, her planners, and her courses, visit ExecutiveFunctioningSuccess.com
Medium Bio (392 words)
As a time management educator in a private practice, Marydee Sklar has helped families struggling with time management for over twenty-nine years. Her unique approach to teaching time management comes from two perspectives. As a reading specialist she knows the importance of teaching concepts in a hands-on, visual, sequential, manner. Second, her own brain has significant executive function deficits, so she understands the challenges from the inside. Once she solved her own time-management issues, she developed a course to help others.
She is the author of three Seeing My Time™ books, including her book for parents: 50 Tips to Help Students Succeed. Her previous titles, the Seeing My Time Workbook and its companion Seeing My Time – Instructor’s Manual were designed for professionals to use in therapeutic or educational settings. She is the developer of the acclaimed Set Up Success® academic planners for students and the Seeing My Time® planners for adults.
The instructor’s manual, under its original title of Seeing What I Need to Do, won a gold medal in the Education/Academic category of the 2011 Next Generation Book Awards sponsored by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group. In 2011 her Seeing My Time books were honored as an Innovative Program at the 24th Annual CHADD International Conference.
Marydee has been a popular speaker for conferences at the state and national levels where she has addressed how to teach the executive functions of time management, planning, and organization. She has presented at conferences for educational therapists, speech pathologists, and educators.
As a consultant, Marydee Sklar works with schools and colleges offering staff development connected to executive functions. She has been a guest lecturer at both Portland Community College and Portland State University. She also provides support to those institutions who have adopted Seeing My Time into their curriculum, which is happening in middle schools, high schools, and colleges around the country.
As the founder of Executive Functioning Success, she is creating a network of trained professionals to teach the Seeing My Time course to their clients and students through online courses. To date she has trained psychologists, educational therapists, speech pathologists, life coaches, ADHD coaches, social workers, educational therapists, teachers, college faculty, and tutors. In addition, she created a highly regarded online professional development course for educators: Building Executive Functioning Skills in the Classroom .
Marydee has two children and a grandson with whom she shares a love of food and travel adventures. She has been married to her husband for over 41 years. They live in Portland, Oregon.
For more information about Marydee, her books, her planners, and her courses, visit https://www.ExecutiveFunctioningSuccess.com
Full Bio: (587 words)
As an educator in a private practice, Marydee Sklar has helped families struggling with time management for over twenty-nine years. Her unique approach to teaching time management comes from two perspectives. As a reading specialist she knows the importance of teaching concepts in a hands-on, visual, sequential, manner. Second, her own brain has significant executive function deficits, so she understands the challenges from the inside. Once she solved her own time-management issues, she developed a course to help others.
She is the author of three Seeing My Time™ books, including her book for parents: 50 Tips to Help Students Succeed. Her previous titles, the Seeing My Time Workbook and its companion Seeing My Time – Instructor’s Manual were designed for professionals to use in therapeutic or educational settings. The instructor’s manual, under its original title of Seeing What I Need to Do, won a gold medal in the Education/Academic category of the 2011 Next Generation Book Awards sponsored by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group. As the publisher of her books she is very involved in the design details and production of her works, aiming for quality design and functionality for the reader. In 2011 her Seeing My Time books were honored as an Innovative Program at the 24th Annual CHADD International Conference. She is the developer of the acclaimed Set Up Success® academic planners for students and the Seeing My Time® planners for adults.
Marydee Sklar has been a popular speaker for conferences at the state and national levels where she has addressed how to teach the executive functions of time management, planning, and organization. She has presented at conferences for educational therapists, speech pathologists, and educators. She was invited to present at a Northwest regional conference on brain injuries.
As a consultant, Marydee Sklar worked with schools and colleges offering staff development connected to executive functions. She has been a guest lecturer at both Portland Community College and Portland State University. She also provides support to those institutions who have adopted Seeing My Time™ into their curriculum, which is happening in middle schools, high schools, and colleges around the country.In addition, she created a highly regarded online professional development course for educators: Building Executive Functioning Skills in the Classroom .
As the founder of Executive Functioning Success, Marydee Sklar is creating a network of trained professionals to teach the Seeing My Time™ course to their clients and students. Her course entitled Teaching Seeing My Time is offered online. To date she has trained psychologists, educational therapists, speech pathologists, life coaches, ADHD coaches, social workers, educational therapists, teachers, college faculty, and tutors.
Throughout Marydee’s long career in executive functioning support, her favorite moments involve helping clients understand how to support their time-challenged brains to get things done. For her it is a joy to watch them make the little, yet very significant, changes in how they think about time and how they use their time. For her it is a daily miracle to empower adults and families to make choices that make them less stressed, more in control, and better able to meet their full potential at home, at work, and at school.
Marydee Sklar has two children and a grandson with whom she shares a love of food and travel adventures. She has been married to her husband for over 41 years. They live in Portland, Oregon. Her happy place is in her kitchen, cooking, baking bread, and preserving food from her vegetable garden and local farms.
For more information about Marydee, her books, her planners, and her courses, visit https://www.ExecutiveFunctioningSuccess.com
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