This is the blog of The Etiquette Advocate, a company specializing in etiquette and protocol training.
Nancy R. Mitchell is the founder of The Etiquette Advocate, and gives advice as The Manners Muse. She is an established protocol and etiquette consultant and advisor with more than 25 years of experience in the field. Currently, she is an adjunct faculty member at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., where she developed and teaches protocol courses in the School of Business and Public Management’s Event Management Certificate Program, as well as at Stratford University, Falls Church, Va. She has served as protocol and special events consultant to the Library of Congress, the world’s largest library and cultural center, where she was director of special events and protocol for more than two decades.
In her former position at the Library of Congress, Ms. Mitchell and her staff were responsible for planning and managing more than 400 events each year. She coordinated the institution’s major special events, visits of heads of state and other foreign dignitaries, fundraising galas, conferences and meetings. As the Library’s chief protocol advisor, she served as liaison to the White House, the U.S Department of State, Congress, the Supreme Court and other government agencies, embassies, academia and corporations.
Ms. Mitchell owns and manages The Etiquette Advocate, a firm providing etiquette and protocol training to corporations, organizations, government agencies, embassies, universities, hotels and individuals. She is an etiquette columnist for Experience.com, has been featured on ABC Nightline, Good Morning America, Fox Morning News and National Public Radio, and is quoted on matters of etiquette and protocol by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Washington Business Journal and Washingtonian magazine. She is a co-owner of the firm, Protocol Partners - Washington Center for Protocol, Inc., and is a member of the Protocol and Diplomacy International Protocol Officers Association.
