Courtesy Bootcamp

Specialties

Courtesy Bootcamp™ is THE mobile ETIQUETTE school specializing in business staff development and programs to aide in combating absenteeism, reducing lost productivity, and fighting increased healthcare costs due to inner office discourtesies. Anthonette Klinkerman, «Col.» Klinkerman, is an award-​winning speaker, author, and businesswoman, and has been conducting her Courtesy Bootcamp™ sessions since 2009. One of her many clients took a national award in Human Resources in 2010, and was the only Colorado facility recognized for such a unique program.

Courtesy Bootcamp™ clients include:

Emceeing for the first annual Vision Conference, Englewood, CO 2014

The entire workforce of the city of Golden, CO 2012

The entire workforce of the city of Englewood, CO 2011

The accounting department for the city of Westminster, CO

The state of Wyoming’s SHRM (Human Resources) Conference, 2013

The Colorado Activities Professionals Association 25^th Annual Conference 2011

PDS/​Xerox

Web-​CE, Texas

The Colorado Association of Teachers of Family and Consumer Sciences annual conference

Awards include:

2010 Assisted Living Facilities Association Human Resources Award, Castle Country Assisted Living

2014 Business of the Year, and nomination for Woman of the Year by the Denver Tech Center Colorado Business Women

2011 – 2013, Nominated for both Business of the Year and Woman of the Year, DTC/​CBW

Bronze medalist for children’s book, Battle of the Grandmas, 2013

History

Established in 2009.

Recognizing a need for both businesses and community members to receive a little brush-​up in common courtesy, Courtesy Bootcamp™ was born. «We have become so overly connected that we are DISconnected,» says Klinkerman, but when doing research on the costs behind the lack of courtesy, she found the lack of courtesy inside the workplace costs US business alone over $ 300 BILLION a year.

Klinkerman decided to do something about it in the form of a «boot camp». She noted mobile businesses everywhere, from dog grooming to fitness to dry-​cleaning, and all of them claiming to take a mere hour. «Everyone wants everything in one hour and yesterday, so why not an etiquette boot camp?»

Klinkerman began teaching etiquette lessons to her former middle school students, and then presented her first session to The Rotary Club in February 2009.

Since then she has spoken throughout the state of Colorado, Wyoming, and has a client in Texas.

Meet the Business Owner

Anthonette K.

Business Owner

Anthonette Klinkerman has been a Douglas County School district teacher since 2000. She taught middle school Language Arts for ten years, and now teaches at an alternative high school. She was also Arapahoe Community College adjunct faculty, 2004 – 2005, teaching Reading 090. Klinkerman earned a Masters Degree in Literacy and Curriculum Development from Lesley University in 2004. She earned a Bachelors Degree in English from Fresno State University in 1991, and holds a Cross-​Cultural Language Acquisition and Development (CLAD Certificate) from the state of California.

Klinkerman took classes from well-​known Colorado speaker Joe Sabah, and entered the public speaking circuit in February 2009 with her first Courtesy Bootcamp presentation. Since then, she was placed on the Rotary Preferred Speaker list, as well as Joe Sabah’s speaker resource list, and was recognized in national publication, Assisted Living Executive Magazine. The Denver Business Journal has also given her two mentions