Natasha Boyd has been a speech pathologist for over 35 years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology and a Master of Arts degree in Education (Speech Pathology and Audiology) from San Jose State University. Ms. Boyd began her teaching career in San Jose, California and has worked for the Elk Grove Unified School District in Elk Grove, California for the past 29 years. Ms. Boyd is also a proud member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Over the years she began to recognize that her students were impaired due to their ineffective communication skills. In 1994, she developed a program using pragmatics as the foundation and began delivering it to her students. The positive results and feedback were so profound, that she began delivering the workshop to students and staff members throughout the school district. She now provides this invaluable training to businesses and organizations beyond the public education system. Ms. Boyd has taught thousands of students and has presented hundreds of workshops and seminars throughout California focused on improving verbal and non-verbal communication skills.