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Lucille
DeClemente started her journey that led her to open LDP, a company whose sole purpose is to teach
children, teens, young adults, professionals and businesses the importance of
social and organizational skills, when she completed her higher education at
such prestigious schools as Pine Manor College in Massachusetts and Salve
Regina College in Rhode Island. Her
major in Psychology and minors in Education and Art, helped shape her
educational background while her modeling training coupled with her consultant
certificate from JR Powers along with her training in the methods of Retailing
from Tobe Colburn put her on track to becoming Cherry & Webb, Touraine and
Beta Stores, Training and Fashion Merchandise Director in the Late 1960’s and
early seventies. She was also selected
by Stevens College to establish a “Retail Program” for young adults whose goal
was to make retailing a career. During
the 1960’s she was also instrumental in setting up the DECA program with
retailers in the Boston Area.
By the mid
1970’s Mrs. DeClemente had completed her fourteen year journey with Cherry and
Webb. After years of establishing
company protocol and policy along with training new personnel (including
executives) in these areas, she was ready to take on a new challenge that put
all her previous background and experience to use. At this point in her career she was hired by
an international company named Henkel and Grosse to establish world wide policy
and protocol for the total Grosse operation.
From this starting point, she went on to the additional responsibilities
from creation and manufacturing of the product with a company called Ubio Inc.
in Cranston, Rhode Island. The product
was fine designer costume jewelry and the designer names were Christian Dior,
Burberry and Grosse. Mrs. DeClemente
worked on this professional endeavor for thirty years.
After
receiving her Protocol Certificate from the Protocol School of Washington DC,
Mrs. DeClemente opened LDP to put her years in fashion, business organization,
personal enhancement professional protocol and etiquette together to form a
business which is unique in its approach and professional to its core. She has managed to succeed in every challenge
brought her way and sends her clients forth totally prepared and confident in
their social and professional approaches, no matter what their age.
Mrs.
DeClemente has acquired numerous distinctions throughout the years from being
named an “Outstanding Young Woman of American” in 1966 to being inducted in
2005 to the Cranston Hall of Fame. She
continues to educate herself to keep up to the most up to date trends in the
industry and maintains memberships in the Boston, New York and International
Fashion Groups.
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