About Traci
Details about my credentials
Effective Contextual Communication Professional with over 40 years of experience
My name is Traci Seltzer. I am an American woman with a plethora of educational & practical experience which has honed my interaction skills, ability to understand contextualism and ability to understand human behavior and choices thus possible future choices. My education includes a bachelors in international relations, a masters of business administration, a masters of psychology, and a masters of education.
American English Editor & Proofreader
at Spread Global
- I use my knowledge and expertise in communication, human behavior and language as both a contextual communication coach and as an American English editor and proofreader to scrutinize expert content for the US market by detecting terminology errors and contextual errors to safeguard against reputational damage (ie. embarrassing and faux pax moments that can occur from incorrect translations especially in advertising and instructional videos).
- I’m the ultimate blend of academics and experience to be the successful contextual communication coach and American English editor & proofreader that I am.
- Investments, foreign policies, business plans, product choice and conflict all have one thing common – they are products of people who have thoughts, feelings, emotions, experiences and contextualisms.
- Understanding cultural diversity in respect to an individual’s contextualism can reasonably predict future behaviors and/or choices such as consumer buying choices and/or the job performance of future employees. Understanding contextual communication also reduces the risk of embarrassing and/or failed advertising campaigns in non-domestic markets.
- Professional Fortes
- Contextualism; personal history & cultural
- Behavior choice analysis: Non-verbal, paraverbal & verbal cues; communication
- Interpersonal & intrapersonal skills: Direct, realistic communication & cross-cultural communication (written & spoken)
- International experience including cultural norms, diversity & sensitivity: American culture & subcultures; Russian business traditions, culture & geography; South Korea, China, Byelorus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Brazil, Germany
- Professional Fortes
- Negotiation, mediation, conflict & dispute resolution/mediation through direct, realistic verbal communication
- Defense & strategic plans & planning including soft skills of potential employees, professionals and partners
- Motivation for self & others in and for various situations & topics
- Voice of reason or playing "Devil's advocate"
- Intelligences: Tacit, crystallized & emotional; honed executive function
- Reasonings: Deductive, inductive & fluid
- Experience & Specialty Groups
- Russian Professionals: Since 2013, I have spent the majority of my waking hours interacting with Russian professionals who work in various fields, and now various locations.
- Criminal Analyst which included leveraging plea deals from the prosecutor and then trying to sell the plea deal to our client, which wasn't always easy. More recently, I attempted to provide assistance (social & strategic) to a powerful but narcissistic, homicidal gang leader. He is a former student of mine (see below).
- Academic Teacher in a men's prison: I taught social skills especially communication skills, emotional intelligence & intrapersonal skills disguised as academic topics.
- Internal fiscal & compliance auditor for various entities
- Communication & life coach for non-English speaking professionals, mainly Russian speaking professionals
- Animal behaviorist in an animal behavior program
- Education & Degrees
- Master’s of Education in International Education, Keiser University, USA; June 2018
- Master’s of Science in Psychology, Northcentral University, USA; September 2012
- MBA (in Leadership & International Business), Capella University, USA :June 2009
- Bachelor’s of Arts in International Relations, Pennsylvania State University, USA; December 1992
- Successful completion of Certified Fraud Examiner exam, Assn of Certified Fraud Examiners, USA; March 2013
- 140-hour TEFL certificate, ITTO, Mexico; May 2010
- Attended the University of Maryland, European Division, in (West) Berlin, (West) Germany in 1990-91
Publications & Prose
The Gladstone Gables series is about four pre-adolescent students who volunteer at a horse rescue farm. They learn about the horses but also about themselves and social interaction & skills including communication skills, compassion, contextualism & understanding.
La serie Gladstone Gables trata de cuatro estudiantes preadolescentes que trabajan como voluntarios en una granja de rescate de caballos. Aprenden sobre los caballos, pero también sobre sí mismos y sobre interacción social y habilidades como la comunicación, la compasión, el contextualismo y la comprensión.
Серия «Глэдстоун Гейблз» рассказывает о четырех школьниках-подростках, которые работают волонтерами на ферме по спасению лошадей. Они узнают не только о лошадях, но и о себе, о социальном взаимодействии и навыках, включая навыки общения, сострадания, контекстуализма и понимания.
SeeReal Reality is my first installment of a novel series. It combines many genres because it is based on real life. I used many of my own life experiences and centered them around a fictious story line. The three main characters are in their mid-30s; one American woman, one Italian-American man, and one Russian man. The genres include action/adventure, suspense, romance, "whodunit", a bit of erotic, drama, and "What would you do if......?" The name of the novel is a play on English words.
A memento created and authored by one of my inmate students in the first few weeks I worked as an academic teacher in a men's prison. I disguised the teaching of social skills in the academic lessons.
Fun Facts about Traci
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- I am quite eccentric. I embrace this fact full heartedly! My eccentricities are what make me endearing and memorable. I enjoy walking to the tune of a different drummer because my drummer has a harmonica! If we were all the same, only one of us would be necessary in this world.
- I have a very witty and sarcastic sense of humor that I use in most venues & situations while responding on the spectrum between diplomatically polite to rather brutally honest. English is my first language but sarcasm is my "second language" that I use just as easily as my first language.
- I am a history buff. I am very well-versed in history, historical international political economics and geography. The world and its situations are how they are now due to situations that occurred in the past.
- I lived in (West) Berlin, (West) Germany in the late 1980s & early 1990s with my first husband when the The Wall began to fall. I spent Unification Night at the the Brandenberger Tor. What a night to remember!
- I can read Russian but I do not actually know what it means. I know the Russian alphabet and its letters' sounds. I understand the theoretical Russian grammar, and I have a very small working Russian vocabulary.
- I have a very extensive knowledge of Russian culture and history, which helps understand contextualism which helps facilitate relations.
- I collect education as a hobby (I have three masters degrees).
- I have a children's book series that teaches social skills to young people. The series is called Gladstone Gables.
- I have been writing a novel since 2001. It is entitled SeeReal Realities. It spans many genres; action & adventure, psychology, romance, erotica, suspense, "What would you do if.....?"
- I was a rock climber and ice climber in my undergraduate college days. I have spent many weeks and months in a tent. I taught rock climbing at the university. I have seen a lot of very rural America via a truck and tent with no modern convenience and no phones.
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- I am a farrier; I trim and shoe horse hooves.
- I owned a situationally-narcoleptic former racing Thoroughbred gelding.
- I owned and rode a "crotch rocket" motorcycle for about 6 years when I was married to my 2nd husband.
- I do not have any children but I have many pets and interesting friends, both which are just as challenging as children :)
- I tend to have unpleasant results from venom-related incidents. I almost lost my left leg to a spider bite. I was bitten in the right nostril by a spider. My face swelled. I was bitten by a tick and now I have Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. I was bitten by a snake and almost died. I received seven vials of anti-venom. I swelled up like a balloon. My friends kept calling me "Mrs. Stay-Puft".
- I have moved halfway across the US on seven separate occasions. I do not have any plans to increase this count.
- I've lived through 5+ hurricanes, uncountable severe supercell thunderstorms and 2 earthquakes but no tornadoes.......yet.
- One of my most favorite and memorable jobs was as an academic teacher in a men's prison and as a criminal analyst for a former chief judge who went back into private practice.
- I am good at sewing and carpentry, and now I'm learning to be my own electrician because I use solar panels for electricity.
- I make most of what I need in learning materials and in real life.
- I created almost everything on this website (pic texts, texts & design) from an educational psychology point of view.
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