Current News Items about Jana Kemp
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Interview Contacts: Jana Kemp, 208-367-1701
www.JanaKemp.com
Doug Graves, 208- 343-8711
Review Copy Contact: Laura Mullen, at Greenwood
FAX request on your letterhead to: 203-222-1502
Laura.Mullen@greenwood.com
Boise, Idaho – Are You Prepared or Paranoid?
Idaho authors Jana Kemp and Doug Graves hint at this question in their new book Prepared Not Paranoid (Praeger, 2008). In the wake of 9/11, many Americans feel their individual safety is threatened by forces they cannot control. Some take drastic measures and move from metropolitan areas thought to be targets, as we’ve seen with some of our newest Idaho residents. Most however, stay put and try to find ways to protect themselves in their homes, their workplaces, and their communities.
A sense of vulnerability or uncertainty can undermine feelings of safety and security. Today’s dangerous world calls for daily personal power that overcomes paranoia and puts people back in control of their lives and their sense of safety. While most Idahoans feel fairly safe moving about daily life, we have seen an increase in youth-attacks, in home invasion, and drug-related community safety challenges over the last decade.
Drawing on 34 years of law enforcement work and training, co-authors Jana Kemp and Doug Graves present useful information and practical guidelines for keeping yourself, family members, children at school, and co-workers as safe as possible every day. Prepared Not Paranoid presents methods for recognizing challenges or threats, innovative ways of thinking about safety, checklists with actions to take in various settings, and items to have handy when traveling. This book serves as a guide for safe daily living, not as a self-defense manual. The authors raise awareness and offer important information so people feel more confident moving through daily life as safely as possible.
Bookstores and online book-sellers are carrying the book.
Author notes:
Jana Kemp is the founder and owner of Boise-based, 15 year old Meeting & Management Essentials. She is also the author of Moving Meetings (English and Italian); No! How One Simple Word Can Transform Your Life (English, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Arabic, Chinese); Building Community in Buildings; and Moving Out of the Box.
Doug Graves is the immediate past Deputy Director of the Idaho Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Academy. He teaches at the Idaho POST academy and is a senior partner of Law Enforcement Training and Resources (LETR) a law enforcement training company that provides a variety of training resources to law enforcement on a local, state and federal level.
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Contacts: Suzie Hall 208-384-1422
Ken Baker 208- 861-5736
Jana Kemp 208- 367-1701
Website: www.greensteps.us
Boise, Idaho –
Combining their expertise in Green Building design and productive buildings, Suzie Hall, LEED AP, ASID, Ken Baker, LEED AP, and Jana Kemp, have teamed to deliver GreenSteps services and GreenSteps Sessions for determining just how Green an organization may choose to go.
GreenSteps’ mission is to provide technical and project management expertise for new building as well as tenant improvement projects. The team’s range of services includes: getting started with your Green goals; Education for your organization and your clients; Design consultation; Project Management; Green Building Program application process management; and Sustainability of ongoing Green efforts.
Hall, President of Cornerstone Design, is recognized for her corporate and consumer design work and has been seen in Idaho IQ and the Idaho Business Review, as well as the Idaho Statesman’s Treasure Magazine. She is a board member of the local chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.
Baker is an energy efficiency expert and a sought-after educator on energy topics. He built his home in 2003 according to Green principles.
Kemp and Baker co-authored Building Community in Buildings (Praeger, 2007). Kemp is an internationally recognized author and speaker on business management topics.
For more information, please visit: www.greensteps.us
March 2007 - Kemp Recognized for 5 Years of Student Judging
This year marks the fifth year of Jana Kemp's volunteer judging for the Business Professionals of America. "I believe that encouraging today's students ensures a future with strong leaders," says Kemp. Over Kemp's 14 years of business ownership she has also volunteer judged events for Ada County 4-H programs, Canyon County 4-H programs, and middle-school essay contests. "It is great to see what good-kids are going because it gives me hope for our future," concludes Kemp.
February 2007 - Kemp Awarded for 13th Year
Jana Kemp, founder of Meeting & Management Essentials will be honored as a 2006 Ruby Award winner at the Inscape Publishing's MindLab Training Conference in San Diego on April 20, 2007. Ruby Award status is based on qualifying purchases of instrumented learning assessments and support materials from Inscape.
"Based on her nearly two decades of working with our materials, I commend Jana Kemp's dedication to delivering customer-focused solutions using high-quality learning assessments and support tools," remarked Jeffrey Sugerman, president and CEO of Inscape Publishing. "Our award-winning distribution partners are key to crafting training and development solutions that create real results for companies and employees around the world."
Inscape Publishing is an international publisher of research-based learning instruments that improve individual and organizational performance. The company is best known for its DiSC® learning resources, a behavioral model and set of tools that have been used for nearly three decades by more than 40 million people worldwide. It is held by The Riverside Company, the largest private equity firm specializing in investments at the smaller end of the middle market.
Kemp Named Among 2006 Women of the Year
February 22, 2007 - Boise, Idaho
Jana Kemp, founder of Meeting & Management Essentials, author and former Idaho Representative, has been recognized by the Idaho Business Review as one of Idaho's 2006 Women of the Year. Her accomplishments in business, service to the community and to the state of Idaho, as well as her mentoring of other small business owners are among the reasons cited for the award. "I'm pleased to be recognized as one of the 25 women recognized this year," says Kemp. "It is always nice to be appreciated for the good works you feel you are doing in the community."
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