Who is Elaine Estervig Beaubien?

Elaine Estervig Beaubien is an experienced trainer, brilliant keynoter and speaker, a  respected educator and administrator, an honored professional, a civic leader, and a published writer.  She is a member of the tenured faculty at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin where she teaches management, economics and marketing to graduate and undergraduate students.    

ON THE COVER
Elaine's story was featured on the cover of Wisconsin Woman, September 2004.

http://wisconsinwomanmagazine.com/$spindb.query.listarticle.wwview.46.9

EXPERIENCED TRAINER
Elaine is the sole proprietor of Management Training Seminars and travels all over the world delivering high energy, high content presentations and seminars.  Her clients have included Harley-Davidson, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Oscar Mayer, Rayovac, Bayer, CIBA-GEIGY, General Casualty, St. Mary’s Hospital, Flagler College, Quadgraphics, The American Red Cross, Peabody Hotel, ASTD, SHRM, MPI, and CUNA, to name a few.  For a client reviews and more comprehensive information, see our client list.

BRILLIANT KEYNOTER AND SPEAKER
Elaine Beaubien has traveled from Toronto to Rio de Janeiro delivering high content messages to audiences compelled to listen by her dynamic style. She believes in combining inspiration with information.  Her audiences are not only mesmerized by her message, they come away knowing how to effectively channel the energy she gives them.       
 

RESPECTED ACADEMICIAN AND ADMINISTRATOR
Professor Beaubien has been on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Detroit College of Business, Mercy College of Detroit and is currently a tenured member of the business faculty at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin.  She teaches management, economics and marketing to graduate and undergraduate students.  Elaine has always believed in academic excellence integrated with practical application.  Her students are mostly fully employed working adults who expect a high degree of expertise and managerial capability.  Her students' evaluations have always been outstanding:

In 1984 Elaine received tenure based on her teaching excellence and service to the school and community.   

 In 2002, the business students at Edgewood College created the first student sponsored excellence in teaching award.  To give the award life and meaning, they wanted to name it after an exemplar in the field of teaching and mentoring.  The Estervig-Beaubien Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award was “created in honor of Professor Elaine Estervig Beaubien, whose dedication, energy and enthusiasm have inspired her students and colleagues for many years.”  In addition to having the award named after her, she was the award’s first recipient.  This award will be presented every year by the Edgewood Business Association in recognition of excellence in teaching and mentoring.

"Elaine is one of our treasures, dynamic, articulate, attractive, with total grasp of her subjects.  We are very proud of her."   President, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin    

Courses Elaine has taught have included Administration and Management, Advanced Management Seminar, Social Responsibility of Business, Principles of Management, Organizational Behavior, Office Management, Personnel Management, Training and Development, Salesmanship, Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Marketing Principles, Marketing Management, and Retailing Management.    

In addition to faculty positions, Professor Beaubien also served as Economics Department Chairperson at the Detroit College of Business and as the Business Department Chairperson at Edgewood College.  Staffing, budgeting and strategic planning were all important functions of the job.  While Chairperson at Edgewood College, she led the department in researching, developing and marketing a successful MBA program.  She also served as faculty representative on the Edgewood College Board of Trustees for two three-year terms.   

Elaine is a featured faculty member on the Edgewood Website...

http://www.beta.edgewood.edu/profiles/faculty/elainebeaubien.asp

In the August Alumni Newsletter, Elaine's story was written up and published... ..http://www.edgewood.edu/alumni/newsletter/beaubien/default.asp

PUBLISHED WRITER
Elaine has published articles in national magazines and regional journals on management, leadership and personal development.  She has authored manuals on group process entitled Cluster Brainstorming Technique and on employee retention entitled Selling the Seven C's.  

Elaine wrote a popular business column for Madison Magazine and is currently a contributing writer for local business publications including a regular column for Business Watch. 

HONORED PROFESSIONAL WOMAN    
In 1996, Elaine received the Underkofler Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.  She was recognized for her ability to present topics of critical importance to her audience, her scholarship, her community service and her dynamic style.   A year later, she was selected as one of the “Madison 100” . . . the people who, through their brains, talent, clout and charisma really make things happen in this city.”  In 1998, Elaine received the Professional Achievement Award given by her Alma Mater for an individual who has demonstrated noteworthy success/contributions, and outstanding scholarship. In 2000, she won the prestigious Faculty Award for Excellence in Academic Advising, recognizing her for her individual work with students. 

 In 2002, the business students at Edgewood College created the first student sponsored excellence in teaching award.  To give the award life and meaning, they wanted to name it after an exemplar in the field of teaching and mentoring.  The Estervig-Beaubien Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award was “created in honor of Professor Elaine Estervig Beaubien, whose dedication, energy and enthusiasm have inspired her students and colleagues for many years.”  In addition to having the award named after her, she was the award’s first recipient.  This award will be presented every year by the Edgewood Business Association in recognition of excellence in teaching and mentoring.

In addition: Who's Who of Colleges and Universities, 1971,Outstanding Young Woman of America, 1983, Who's Who in the Midwest, 1984.

CIVIC LEADER
Elaine has worked as a volunteer for the American Cancer Society, The American Red Cross, Options for Community Living, Public Television and Radio,  Business and Professional Women and numerous student groups.  She served two terms on the Board of Trustees of Edgewood College, is a member of the steering committee for Leadership Greater Madison, serves on the Board of Trustees of Edgewood Campus Grade School, and is a charter member of the Madison Best in Business Selection Committee.

Elaine has also been a member of the American Management Association, the American Marketing Association, the National Association of Female Executives, Educators for Social Responsibility, the Wisconsin Professional Speakers Association and the National Speakers Association.    

REINVENTION: WALKING THE TALK: a new role, another challenge!
For over two decades, Elaine has trained and taught people to write their own life script...to be proactive and pursue their dreams according to their own written plan. At the turn of the millennium, after reaching all of her personal and professional goals, she decided to semi-retire from teaching and training and reevaluate her work, redefine her passions and reinvent her life. Instead of moving forward on the journey she so successfully laid out over her 30-year career, she completely jumped the track.

Following her own advice, the highly successful professor and corporate trainer is now the writer of romantic fiction. In addition to teaching part time and taking on training opportunities she finds interesting and challenging, this high energy women has given birth to a whole new career after the age of 50.

Writing under the pen name of E. K. Barber, Elaine is the author of a series of romance novels, the first has been published and the sequels are with an agent. To see what Elaine, a.k.a. E. K. Barber, has written into her life's script for the second half of her allotted century, go to www.ekbarber.com. Versatility, pursuing your dreams, reinventing yourself are not just concepts. For Elaine, they are her mantra.