Harriet Diamond

Harriet Diamond is a freelance writer, living in Atlantic City, NJ, and focusing on the three R’s: reading, ‘riting, and relaxing. Current responsibilities include serving on Enterprising Women’s Advisory Council, regularly contributing articles for and about successful women business owners to that publication, as well as writing other articles and books and, occasionally speaking her mind. She has coauthored several books during the past few years with her daughter, Linda Eve Diamond. Their most recent publications are Teambuilding That Gets Results, released in January '07 by Sourcebooks, and Perfect Phrases for Motivating and Rewarding Employees, McGraw-Hill, 2006. The two are now working on Perfect Phrases for Writing Company Announcements .

Harriet retired in 2004 from running Diamond Associates, a training and consulting firm she established in 1985. She and the talented team that she assembled, which included Linda, created and delivered training programs and provided consulting services to a number of industries, including pharmaceutical, manufacturing, healthcare, financial, transportation, and hospitality.

A former leader in adult education, Harriet developed one of the first adult learning centers in New Jersey and became a pioneer in adult literacy. She then went on to a role in higher education before establishing Diamond Associates.

Harriet is also the author of: Grammar--In Plain English, English the Easy Way, Writing the Easy Way, (Barron’s Educational Series, Inc.) and Executive Writing (Pearson Education). True to her adult education roots, she was project consultant to Steck Vaughn’s series, Workforce: Building Success, and series editor to Cambridge’s (Pearson’s) Read to Work series.

The author of articles for magazines and journals on a broad range of topics that include lobbying skills, customer service, communication, management, teambuilding, managing growth, and others of interest to the business community, Harriet has lectured on these and other subjects.

During her years as a business owner, Harriet held leadership positions in the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners, the Union County Private Industry Council (now Workforce Development Board), and the Union county Chamber of Commerce. She also was an active member of the NJ Board of Public Utilities’ Supplier Diversity Development Council, the Women Presidents’ Organization, the Union County Chamber of Commerce, the Westfield Chamber of Commerce, and the Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce. She was the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners’ Business Woman of the Year in 1995, the recipient of three NJ Institute of Technology NJ Author Awards, and a NJ Senate citation for Outstanding Contributions to Adult Education.

Education: BA English, Rutgers University; MA Administration and Supervision Kean University