About Nancy
Nancy is a professionally trained life coach specializing in the entertainment industry and loves working with people on all sides of the business.
Nancy began her career on Wall Street where she was a sales assistant for six years. In pursuit of her life-long dream to work in entertainment, Nancy scored a television job for Emmy Award-winning talk show host Montel Williams. Working her way up in Montel’s production company, Nancy went from being a Production Coordinator to the Head of East Coast Development.
In her eight years working with Montel, she produced several live pay-per-view specials featuring world renowned psychic Sylvia Browne and associate produced “Little Pieces,” an independent film that marked Montel’s directorial debut. When Montel was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, Nancy was instrumental in starting The Montel Williams MS Foundation, and ultimately served as Executive Director of the organization. Additionally, during her time with Montel, she launched Letnom Management, a boutique talent management firm specializing in comedy which she developed with the use of her experience as producer of live comedy shows in the tri-state area, most notably Broadway’s Town Hall theater’s Outrageous Comedy night featuring comedian Sandra Bernhard.
In 2003, Nancy was the first elected Chair of the Gotham-based Producers Guild of America East (PGAe), tripling its membership during her tenure and initiating its career education seminars and workshops as well as its first job forum. Nancy was on the National Board of Directors based in Los Angeles.
Nancy holds a Master’s degree in Communications and a Master’s in Organizational Psychology from Teachers College Columbia University. Currently, Nancy is a doctoral candidate there studying Adult Learning and Leadership. Her Bachelor’s degree is in Psychology at New York University.
Nancy loves comedy and managed The Broadway Comedy Club on Sunday nights in New York City. Her dissertation examines how comedians learn to use humor to educate audiences on social and political issues.
Not surprisingly, she also enjoys writing and has a career column in the PGA’s membership magazine and has blogged on Oxygen’s website Oomph.net, encouraging people to develop their talents.
Nancy is proud to be coaching and training low-income adults to be production assistants at the “Made in New York” Production Assistant Training Program, helping students marry their passion and their purpose as she has done and continues to do.
