“I found the ‘Keys to Washington’ seminar beneficial and would recommend it to any new Diplomat to Washington. I will certainly encourage my colleagues to take the opportunity to attend”
— Ms. Virginia Lynch, Counselor Embassy of Australia

“The program is very well designed. I cannot say too many compliments about how professionally it was performed. I… learnt a great deal from your clear and systematic lectures.”
— Mrs. Irena Kozminska, wife of the former Ambassador of the Republic of Poland

“For me, and I think my colleagues will share in this with me, ‘The Keys to Washington’ seminar is one of the efficient ways to understand the real map of Washington’s politics. It also provides us diplomats with many effective tips and useful tools for our journey to Washington’s diplomatic life.”
— Mr. Harry Purwanto,Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia

“The Keys to Washington’ is highly instrumental in enabling the newly appointed diplomat to be acquainted with the mores, the psychology and the lifestyles of Americans so as to better communicate with them, to be easily integrated within the American society and the diplomatic sphere at large, and, above all, to show more efficiency at work.”
— Mr. Mourad Belhassen, Counselor, Embassy of Tunisia

“I found the seminar very useful as a newly arrived person. Both the program itself – with many interesting points – and meeting other newly arrived women was most useful. Over the next few weeks, it felt so good to recognize someone I had met at least once before!”
— Mrs. Ellen Vollebaek,Wife of H.E. Knut Vollebaek, Ambassador of Norway

“The ‘Diplomatic First Ladies’ Seminar is designed to make your tenure in Washington more successful – it helped jumpstart my posting here! In addition, I find Diplomats’ Washington a valuable partner and a great peer forum for spouses of Ambassadors.”
— Mrs. Indira Mansingh, Wife of H.E. Lalit Mansingh, former Ambassador of India

“As the wife of an ambassador, the seminar helped me a lot to find my way around very quickly. The information which was passed on to us was even helpful to the embassy.”
— Mrs. Margo Illes, Wife of H.E. Henry Illes, Former Ambassador of Suriname

“I … thank you for this seminar and [for] your efforts to support our great and unique responsibility to work with our husbands in a very effective way for our country!”
— Mrs. Veronica Ferrero, Wife of H.E. Eduardo Ferrero Costa, Ambassador of Peru

Professional Flower Arranging Techniques
“A flower arranging seminar was a brilliant idea, and we learned a lot from your recommendations. I have been making flower arrangements for our embassy’s events for quite a while, and I have read a couple of books about it. However, I was surprised to learn many useful hints at the seminar…. Thank you very much. I am looking forward to the next seminar.” — Mrs. Liubov Korsunska, Wife of Mr. Sergiy Korsunskyi, former Chargé d’Affaires A.I., Embassy of Ukraine

Event Planning Workshop
“Thank you for your warm welcome at the “Event Planning Workshop…” I was very pleased to discover the existence of your organization and impressed by the wealth of information which you imparted to the workshop participants. I also appreciate the opportunity to work with others on concrete proposals. It makes the event planning process much more tangible.
“I will definitely apply the lessons I learned during the workshop and hope that we will have the opportunity to tap into your resources again in the future.” — Mrs. Margaret Shisko, Community Liaison Coordinator Embassy of Canada