About Us

At 5 Star Seminars, our approach to learning is to provide tools that will have lasting value. Our aim is to provide useful, informative and entertaining experiences for both personal and professional growth. We know that money and time are important so we strive to please, offering a variety of topics of varying lengths. 5 Star Seminars uses the latest technology to bring our expertise to you through the use of online seminars. These seminars are simple and easy to participate in without the need for sophisticated computer software. Anyone with a telephone and a computer can take advantage of these seminars.

Our seminars are for everyone. Some of them are directed specifically at organizations such as non-profits, libraries and museums, individual artist and scholars, local government, schools and school districts. Others are more generalized. The seminars are designed to educate and entertain volunteers, those in business, the public sector as well as the non-profit sector.

Bios

Harriet Grayson

Harriet Grayson, President of 5 Star Seminars and Publisher of Ocean Breeze Press, is an accomplished speaker, author, fundraising consultant (previously a partner in Focus Fundraising) and former insurance executive and urban planner. She has worked in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Educated as an urban planner (M.U.P., NYU) and urban sociologist/demographer (B.A. Queens College, M.A. University of Denver), she has planned for the City of New York and the State of Colorado. As an insurance executive, she has spoken on numerous topics such as using customer service to maximize strategic advance, market research techniques for business, strategic marketing and planning at industry conferences across the country.

During the last several years, Ms. Grayson has been an entrepreneur starting 5 Star Seminars and then in 2010 the independent publishing company Ocean Breeze Press. Ocean Breeze Press is a voice that draws on the experiences and expertise of independent thinkers and authors.

Ms. Grayson is married with two grown daughters and resides in Westerly, RI.