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Effective Contextual Communication Professional with over 40 years of experience
My name is Traci Seltzer. I am an American woman with a plethora of educational & practical experience which has honed my interaction skills, ability to understand contextualism and ability to understand human behavior and choices thus possible future choices. My education includes a bachelors in international relations, a masters of business administration, a masters of psychology, and a masters of education.
- Professional Fortes
- Contextualism; personal history & cultural
- Behavior choice analysis: Non-verbal, paraverbal & verbal cues; communication
- Interpersonal & intrapersonal skills: Direct, realistic communication & cross-cultural communication (written & spoken)
- International experience including cultural norms, diversity & sensitivity: American culture & subcultures; Russian business traditions, culture & geography; South Korea, China, Byelorus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Brazil, Germany
- Professional Fortes
- Negotiation, mediation, conflict & dispute resolution/mediation through direct, realistic verbal communication
- Defense & strategic plans & planning including soft skills of potential employees, professionals and partners
- Motivation for self & others in and for various situations & topics
- Voice of reason or playing "Devil's advocate"
- Intelligences: Tacit, crystallized & emotional; honed executive function
- Reasonings: Deductive, inductive & fluid
- Experience & Specialty Groups
- Russian Professionals: Since 2013, I have spent the majority of my waking hours interacting with Russian professionals who work in various fields, and now various locations.
- Criminal Analyst which included leveraging plea deals from the prosecutor and then trying to sell the plea deal to our client, which wasn't always easy. More recently, I attempted to provide assistance (social & strategic) to a powerful but narcissistic, homicidal gang leader. He is a former student of mine (see below).
- Academic Teacher in a men's prison: I taught social skills especially communication skills, emotional intelligence & intrapersonal skills disguised as academic topics.
- Internal fiscal & compliance auditor for various entities
- Communication & life coach for non-English speaking professionals, mainly Russian speaking professionals
- Animal behaviorist in an animal behavior program
- Education & Degrees
- Master’s of Education in International Education, Keiser University, USA; June 2018
- Master’s of Science in Psychology, Northcentral University, USA; September 2012
- MBA (in Leadership & International Business), Capella University, USA :June 2009
- Bachelor’s of Arts in International Relations, Pennsylvania State University, USA; December 1992
- Successful completion of Certified Fraud Examiner exam, Assn of Certified Fraud Examiners, USA; March 2013
- 140-hour TEFL certificate, ITTO, Mexico; May 2010
- Attended the University of Maryland, European Division, in (West) Berlin, (West) Germany in 1990-91
Publications & Prose
The Gladstone Gables series is about four pre-adolescent students who volunteer at a horse rescue farm. They learn about the horses but also about themselves and social interaction & skills including communication skills, compassion, contextualism & understanding.
La serie Gladstone Gables trata de cuatro estudiantes preadolescentes que trabajan como voluntarios en una granja de rescate de caballos. Aprenden sobre los caballos, pero también sobre sí mismos y sobre interacción social y habilidades como la comunicación, la compasión, el contextualismo y la comprensión.
Серия «Глэдстоун Гейблз» рассказывает о четырех школьниках-подростках, которые работают волонтерами на ферме по спасению лошадей. Они узнают не только о лошадях, но и о себе, о социальном взаимодействии и навыках, включая навыки общения, сострадания, контекстуализма и понимания.
SeeReal Reality is my first installment of a novel series. It combines many genres because it is based on real life. I used many of my own life experiences and centered them around a fictious story line. The three main characters are in their mid-30s; one American woman, one Italian-American man, and one Russian man. The genres include action/adventure, suspense, romance, "whodunit", a bit of erotic, drama, and "What would you do if......?" The name of the novel is a play on English words.
A memento created and authored by one of my inmate students in the first few weeks I worked as an academic teacher in a men's prison. I disguised the teaching of social skills in the academic lessons.
Fun Facts about Traci
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- I am quite eccentric. I embrace this fact full heartedly! My eccentricities are what make me endearing and memorable. I enjoy walking to the tune of a different drummer because my drummer has a harmonica! If we were all the same, only one of us would be necessary in this world.
- I have a very witty and sarcastic sense of humor that I use in most venues & situations while responding on the spectrum between diplomatically polite to rather brutally honest. English is my first language but sarcasm is my "second language" that I use just as easily as my first language.
- I am a history buff. I am very well-versed in history, historical international political economics and geography. The world and its situations are how they are now due to situations that occurred in the past.
- I lived in (West) Berlin, (West) Germany in the late 1980s & early 1990s with my first husband when the The Wall began to fall. I spent Unification Night at the the Brandenberger Tor. What a night to remember!
- I can read Russian but I do not actually know what it means. I know the Russian alphabet and its letters' sounds. I understand the theoretical Russian grammar, and I have a very small working Russian vocabulary.
- I have a very extensive knowledge of Russian culture and history, which helps understand contextualism which helps facilitate relations.
- I collect education as a hobby (I have three masters degrees).
- I have a children's book series that teaches social skills to young people. The series is called Gladstone Gables.
- I have been writing a novel since 2001. It is entitled SeeReal Realities. It spans many genres; action & adventure, psychology, romance, erotica, suspense, "What would you do if.....?"
- I was a rock climber and ice climber in my undergraduate college days. I have spent many weeks and months in a tent. I taught rock climbing at the university. I have seen a lot of very rural America via a truck and tent with no modern convenience and no phones.
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- I am a farrier; I trim and shoe horse hooves.
- I owned a situationally-narcoleptic former racing Thoroughbred gelding.
- I owned and rode a "crotch rocket" motorcycle for about 6 years when I was married to my 2nd husband.
- I do not have any children but I have many pets and interesting friends, both which are just as challenging as children :)
- I tend to have unpleasant results from venom-related incidents. I almost lost my left leg to a spider bite. I was bitten in the right nostril by a spider. My face swelled. I was bitten by a tick and now I have Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. I was bitten by a snake and almost died. I received seven vials of anti-venom. I swelled up like a balloon. My friends kept calling me "Mrs. Stay-Puft".
- I have moved halfway across the US on seven separate occasions. I do not have any plans to increase this count.
- I've lived through 5+ hurricanes, uncountable severe supercell thunderstorms and 2 earthquakes but no tornadoes.......yet.
- One of my most favorite and memorable jobs was as an academic teacher in a men's prison and as a criminal analyst for a former chief judge who went back into private practice.
- I am good at sewing and carpentry, and now I'm learning to be my own electrician because I use solar panels for electricity.
- I make most of what I need in learning materials and in real life.
- I created almost everything on this website (pic texts, texts & design) from an educational psychology point of view.
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