Maya Staylor, M.S.

A consultant on CEI's professional team, Maya Staylor is a specialist in Writing, Speech Communication, and Organizational Communication. Her primary professional activities include business writing training, executive speech coaching, presentation and persuasive skills training, speech writing, negotiation skills training, critical thinking development, and creativity enhancement.

Ms. Staylor is an award-winning speech coach, and since 1995 has led college speech and debate teams to national titles. She herself has also earned over 100 national awards in competitive public speaking.

Maya has served as a faculty member in the English and Speech Departments at Northwest Missouri State University and currently serves as a member of the Speech Communication faculty and the Assistant Director of Forensics at California State University, Los Angeles. She recently won the 1999 Outstanding Teaching Award in Speech Communication. Maya holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado and a Master's degree from Northwest Missouri State University.