Jill Rigby Garner is an accomplished speaker, family advocate, television personality and founder of Manners of the Heart, a non-profit organization bringing a return of civility and respect to our society through K-12 curricula, parenting seminars, and heart education training for businesses.

Jill conducts workshops and seminars across the country for schools, civic organizations and parents' groups. Jill has been a keynote speaker for Focus on the Family's National Teachers' Conference, New York School Counselors' Conference, City on a Hill in Baltimore, MD, Design4Living in San Jose, CA, and many others. She is a graduate of CLASS and President of the steering committee for AWSA (Advanced Writers and Speakers). She is honored to serve on the boards of The Louisiana Family Forum and The Baton Rouge Counseling Center, as well as, Character at Heart in Montgomery, AL.

Her most recent books, Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World and Raising Unselfish Children in a Self-Absorbed World have been endorsed by Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Dr. Henry Cloud, Dennis Rainey, Dr. Kevin Leman, and John Rosemond. Her upcoming book, The Business of Manners will be released in 2010.

Jill has appeared on the CBS Early Show, Focus On the Family, CNN's Glenn Beck, Family Life Today, Total Living Network and Living the Life, among others. She also enjoys a popular parenting segment on her local CBS Morning Show.

Paramount in Jill's message is replacing self-esteem with self-respect.

"The quest for self-esteem has nearly destroyed our society. And yet we continue to develop self-esteem in our children. As soon as our children are born, we hand them a mirror, wanting our children to love themselves, while we begin the task of making them 'happy.' We smother our children with attention, lavish gifts for every 'A,' and tell them they can be anything they want to be, do anything they want to do, and have anything they want to have. We tell our children by our words and show them in our actions that 'It's all about you.' We crown them prince and princess of their domain."

"But rather than growing up to be grateful, selfless, and thankful, they're turning out to be ungrateful, greedy and resentful, not just to the world, but to us…the very folks who have given them everything. And why not? A child who only looks in a mirror can only see themselves. But loving yourself doesn't bring happiness, loving others does. Loving ourselves empties our souls and feeds our selfishness. Loving others feeds our souls and starves our selfishness."

Jill's favorite role is wife to husband, Nick, and mother of grown twin sons, Boyce and Chad, who testify to their mother's contagious passion. They reside in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.