As an internationally recognized trainer in the home staging industry, Christine Rae has been providing ground-breaking staging programs since 2001, after a 32 year career in executive business management. In August of 2005, she developed and launched her innovative certification program throughout North America (Canadian Certified Staging Professionals and Certified Staging Professionals in the USA). In this short span, she has personally instructed over 3200 entrepreneurs empowering them with the knowledge on how to start and grow a successful home staging business.

Christine Rae is a recipient of many industry awards, among the most recent is the 2007 RESA (Real Estate Staging Association) Staging Innovator of the Year. Christine was nominated and voted for by her peers for her dedication to the staging industry and her innovative development of a continuing education program for stagers, real estate professionals and the conception of EcoStaging (for more information on these programs visit www.stagingtraining.com.

Christine Rae is co-author with Jan Maresh of "Home Staging for Dummies" (a Wiley imprint, May 5, 2008, $19.99), which teaches homeowners, real estate agents, investors, and builders how to make important home improvements in the most cost and time effective way.