Thank you SO much for the pleasure of sitting in your lecture. Through school and experiences and work and theses and research and life sometimes we lose our way and our vision of why we are in this field is lost. Your talk absolutely re-sparked my dreams and visions reminding me of my extreme passion for this section of our field. I hope to attend more of your trainings in the future! BW, Marshall University, Kenova, WV
"There is a saying that feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not giving it. So, I am sending you a gift - a big "Thank you!" I wanted to express my heartfelt thanks to you for helping me increase my knowledge and skills about leadership and management. I also want to thank you for helping me gain a greater understanding of the lives of individuals with disabilities. I must say, you have a profound understanding of the human mind and behavior. I find your presentations and training most enjoyable. Your teaching approach is unique and memorable, and audiences love your use of humor and storytelling. Your presentation and trainings are filled with positive energy and you have a way of engaging audience participation and making everyone's experience memorable. " BN, People's Care, Whittier, CA
"We have received a great deal of praise for bringing you to our agency and have found your trainings have offered us a great way to continually return to the very foundations of the supports GMS wants to give the individuals that reside with us. Since your training, we have seen immediate change doors are knoced upon, people are pulling out aprons to make their own breakfast in the morning, and sitting down to make phone calls and send emails to physicians and case workers far more than before. It is just a start, but I am sure we will be in touch as we continue on our post training path!" Group Main Street, Westbrook, ME
"You inspired me, made me mad, made me cry and made me laugh, but especially you made me think!" SM Wall Residence, Floyd, VA
"Thank you for educating us, and allowing us to understand how far we have come and where people who have a disability used to suffer. I will now embrace a new way of thinking. I will try not to allow a disability diagnosis to define my ability or my potential or my character. I loved your slides on the board. You spoke on what was real and very much true life. Your class will always be a G.E.M. (Good Enough Me) to my heart. To a great speaker who held nothing back. Thank you for teaching us. Thank you for being on our side now." JT, Topeka, KS
"Thank you for opening my eyes and helping me reach my epiphany moment at your conference. It helps to know that a nationally known authority on disabilities, recognizes my strength and wonderful nature. For so many years, I have felt like a slave to the ignorance of many professionals and staff of the agency that serves me and at the house at which I currently reside. Now, I have the confidence to voice the injustices that I see and encounter personally on a daily basis. I am hoping that my voice will in turn make my agency see how important it is to change. Today, I contacted one of the three people who attended your conference in hopes of convincing her to speak with the director of my servicing agency to welcome you into their philosophy and contact you directly. In the meantime, I am going to be a pioneer for myself and others in this area and insist that the discrimination and segregation of us be stopped in its tracks. You have set me free of many of the feelings that I have kept bottled up for so long. Thank you for setting me free. I came into your lectures with a child's mindset and left with a woman's mentality." KT, New York, NY
"I was a parent in the audience of an all day seminar in Los Angeles a few years back, (don’t remember the name of the conference...) and you were the key note speaker. I have a 21 year old son with Down Syndrome, and your talk gave me the boost I needed to transition in to adult years. Your passion and your words about the importance of work, and of avoiding the day program...”wait”...mentality are giving me the drive and direction to help guide Luke’s journey towards independence. Thank you for your message, your “shot in the arm” being a voice that we need to inspire us as parents. Luke is doing well, it has never been easy.He is riding the train to Fullerton College, where he takes classes for the disabled in a college setting. Every step of his journey is full of challenges, it is overwhelming and so worth it. Being that we are in the Thanksgiving season...please know that I am thankful for you, your work, and your message from a few years back that continues to give me direction and hope for my adult son Luke!" KS, Pasadena, CA
"We enjoyed once again having you visit Mountain Lake Services, and appreciate the way you help us inspire our employees to reach for a higher standard. As always with your trainings the staff response was overwhelmingly positive and demonstrates some clear changes to mindset of some of the participants. I was not just speaking rhetorically when I mentioned this at the end of each session: we have seen real changes of heart and of practice based on your trainings, and that is the ultimate evaluation tool in my estimation" Mountain Lake Services, Port Henry, NY
"Just a quick note to thank you for your work. We have recently purchased several sets of the Community Building DVDs and are using the train all of our staff – current about 350 people) and new hires. We have made Universal Enhancement the core of our Quality of Life initiative. We find the DVD’s to be interesting, concise, practical, and they match our training needs (we provide support for people who live in homes together) very well." Bay Human Services, Standish, MI
"Thank you so much for your excellent presentations last week at the TN Disability MegaConference. I have to say you are one of the best presenters I've seen/heard/hired. Inspiring, thought-provoking, funny, poignant, engaging, energetic-all the stuff I hope for when bringing a speaker in or when sitting through a session myself. Thanks for being so good at what you do." Partners in Policymaking, Nashville, TN
"I can't tell you how positive the comments were and how much you impressed even me! As a seasoned presenter myself I can only say that you deserve the Emmy for your presentation! What energy, what challenges and you don't mince words which is a refreshing thing to hear." Beatrice Developmental Center, Beatrice, NE
"I would like to first thank you for the wonderful seminar. I attended the training at the Dover Delaware Sheraton entitled Supporting People to have a Quality Life. I have to say I keep my special glasses on all the time now. Wow I left there feeling like I had been standing behind a dirty window and you took the time to clean it for me. I can see much better now! I was infected with the GEM disease that I came back to the office and expressed my emotions to my supervisors, who in turn decided that I should share my experience at our next general staff meeting. Maybe I can use this opportunity to make some of the changes that I would like to see. Hopefully this will put us on the road to a Quality Life for everyone at our agency. Thanks again, and I hope to attend more trainings in the future. " Chesapeake Care Resources, North East, MD
"I have been around the world three times and back, and I have never had a speaker as powerful as Tom. I look forward to the day our paths cross again. " TRC
"I've never had a training so simple, yet so true and human. My life truly starts now, today. " Resource Center, Chautauqua, NY
"The manner in which the material is presented allows me to interpret and apply the concepts into the lives of our consumers. I will remember the concepts and how they made an impact on my life.!" Frank D. Lanterman Regional Center, Los Angeles, CA
"Keep up the good work! We need more people like Dr. Tom Pomeranz. Wow! I thought I knew what my job duties were as a RSS. I know now that it’s not a job. It’s an opportunity to have a relationship with someone(s)." New Hope Village, Carroll, IA
"Revolutionary thought is always based on the most rational and most human foundations. Thank you for providing our campus with a common sense and humanness...and for lighting the fire or revolutionary change this place so earnestly and desperately needed!" Beatrice Developmental Center, Beatrice, NE
"Outstanding, to say the least! In these 7 hours today, I learned more that I have learned in my 15 years of education. I’m walking away from this meeting a completely changed person" EduCare Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
"In 25 years in the field, I've never heard anybody address the issues that affect people who work in the field as he did. That’s wonderful. We need to hear that we need to work on our issues to be able to really help others." Interhab, Seneca, KS
"This man has a pure awakening into realistic, workable solutions to having a loving and cooperative and working family. He knows extremely well how to speak to people and with people as valued individuals. I have begun to implement his techniques into my own family and it works!! Bring him back many times over." Family Support Conference, Fargo, ND
