As ExecuProv prepares for its 26 year anniversary later this year, I cannot help but reflect back on how this company started—how quite by accident—it came to be.

Since many do not know that story, I will share it now.

I had (and still have) a Public Relations firm, KerrPR.  It was not unusual in the early 80s, nor is it now, for me to accompany clients to broadcast interviews; to help them prepare for press conferences (and be on site to coach them shortly before they were to take to the lectern, microphone, whatever…), and also to help ready them for other live presentations like stockholders’ meetings and other events where public speaking skills had to be top notch.

As a bystander, I was witness to one disaster after another. Many had poor onstage performance skills, others were terrified. I had the same reaction as when I was a young mother in similar awkward situations—like when one of my kid fell off the ...