General Background: Sherri Ferris is the founder of Protocol Professionals, Inc., an international relations consulting firm, offering expertise from a highly skilled team of experts, including former U.S. Ambassadors and State Department officials, international business executives, renowned scholars, foreign diplomats, senior level military officers, and special event professionals. The company provides business etiquette and international protocol training, public relations, liaison with the diplomatic corps, and special event production including Head-of-State visits. read more…
> Corporate clients include international companies such as Chevron, Oracle, and Guidant Corp.; foreign governments, including the Republic of South Africa, Chinese Foreign Ministry, Beijing; international organizations such as the Goethe Institute and the United Nations; US Marine Corps Okinawa; and many foreign Embassies and Consulates General.
> Ms. Ferris was Deputy Chief of Protocol for the City and County of San Francisco from 1992 to 1997, for Mayor Frank Jordan. For ten years she was the senior host for VIPs at the Walt Disney Company, welcoming royalty, world government leaders and famous entertainers. Sherri received her Master of Science degree with honors in Psychology from California State University Fullerton and holds a California Marriage, Family and Child Therapy license.
> Honors Received: Ms. Ferris is the recipient of the German-American Friendship Award presented by the German Ambassador to the U.S. for fostering positive relations between the U.S. and Germany. She was honored with the “Award of Merit” from the Korean-American Association for her outstanding contributions to the Korean-American community. She was knighted by the Norwegian Fish Club and Royal Norwegian Consulate General.
> Publications: Ms. Ferris has contributed articles to several books and journals, including the Stanford University Hoover Institution’s Hoover Digest, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Sun-Times, American Council on Science and Health, San Francisco Chronicle, Nob Hill Gazette, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Kentucky Courier Journal, and Women in International Trade, Silicon Valley.
> Ms. Ferris has made frequent guest appearances on television and radio programs such as KQED, KTVU, FOX TV News, WABC-New York, KGO Radio, KOA-Denver, iTunes and KSFO-San Francisco, as an expert in psychology, global networking, and international protocol. She was a guest lecturer with the Afghan Ambassador to the US on the Queen Mary II in April 2007, as part of the “Cruise for Peace” transatlantic crossing.
> She orchestrated a high-profile series of events for the United Nations and the UNA, to celebrate “UN 50” and “UN 60”. Serving as Project Director. These events were attended by 3000 guests and 75 world leaders. Newsreel of this production may be found at: http://www.protocolprofessionals.com/UN60video.htm
> In 2008 Ms. Ferris co-founded the Sonoma, California – Aswan Egypt Sister City Committee with Egyptian Ambassador H.E. Abderahman Salaheldin, to promote understanding and cooperation with the Moslem world. She led a delegation from Sacramento Seminar to Egypt, in the fall 2009. In 2009 she cofounded with Russian Vice-Consul Alexey Dobrynskiy, the “Young Diplomats Club of San Francisco”. Sherri coordinates multiple events a year for the YDC, whose members represent 43 career Consulates General in San Francisco.
> Contact: Protocol Professionals, Inc., 1819 Polk St., #164, San Francisco, CA 94109,
> Tel. 415.673.5311, Fax 415.673.5380, , Email: sherri@protocolprofessionals.com