Peggy Duncan
is an
award-winning personal productivity expert: a combination
professional organizer, project manager, and computer trainer.
That's a powerful set of skills she uses to help busy people
save as much as
two months a year by showing them how to work smarter.
As an
international
speaker/trainer,
her client list includes media powerhouses, corporate giants,
national associations, government agencies, and educational
institutions.
She is the founder of The Digital Breakthroughs
Institute
whose mission
is to provide
hands-on, highly
interactive workshops for small business owners who want to
improve their technology skills and boost their
productivity. Classes are taught by experts and include such
topics as Wordpress Blogging Bootcamp; Do-It-Yourself Search
Engine Optimization; Do-It-Yourself Public Relations; Time
Management with Outlook; Create Marketing Collateral Using
PowerPoint; Get Organized At Work; Computer Magic; and a lot
more.
The Digital Breakthroughs Institute
is located 5 minutes from Atlanta’s
Hartsfield-Jackson Airport at 1691 Phoenix Blvd, Suite 350.
Professionals and business owners anxious to take their
skills to another level have traveled from as far away as
Las Vegas.
Peggy
is the current spokesperson
for AT&T's line of business telephony products, including the
AT&T Cordless Headset, from Advanced American Telephones.
She's a former media spokesperson for the Qwest Foundation (they
selected her because they wanted a time management expert who
also knows technology). She is
also a former radio and TV show co-host (see
Media Room for more details) and is an author of
several
books that help you work smarter: The Time Management Memory Jogger™,
Conquer Email Overload with Outlook,
Put Time Management to Work and Live the Life You Want, and
Just Show Me
Which Button to Click! in PowerPoint 2003. She's also
written two ebooks: Make Work Easy: Get Organized at Work
and Shameless Self-Promotion: Do-It-Yourself SEO and PR. Get Found
Online.
Journalists call
Peggy often, and her expertise has been cited in various
publications, including: SUCCESS, Entrepreneur, O-The Oprah Magazine,
Health, Essence,
Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, Smart Money, Fitness, Black
Enterprise, Self, Men's Health, MyBusiness, the International
Herald Tribune-London, Positive Thinking, PINK,
Computerworld.com, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,
The Washington Post, Miami Herald, The Arizona
Republic, the Atlanta
Business Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and more. She's also been featured on
national television: CNN, the TODAY show and Black Enterprise
Business Report and has been featured in a PBS special for the US Virgin Islands
affiliate.
Peggy
is a
guest blogger on
the National SCORE Website that supports women
business owners. She's also a guest author
on stress.about.com, a New
York Times company. Her award-winning technology blog,
SUITE Minute,
covers computer tips, tricks, and strategies that make work
easy.
As a volunteer for SCORE Atlanta, Peggy produces
a series of highly successful conferences for small business
owners. She also produces a
seminar series on work-life
balance issues titled Time Catchers™.
Peggy earned
an AS degree in business
administration from Atlanta Junior College (now Atlanta Metropolitan
College), and
a BBA degree in marketing and
a train the trainer certification from Georgia State University in Atlanta.
The 2004-09 editions
of Who's Who in Black Atlanta lists Peggy as one of its best and
brightest entrepreneurs.