Karen Berg

Karen Berg

International Motivational Speaker, Executive Coach and Crisis Consultant Karen's bestselling books Loud and Clear and Get to the Point are the business bibles of successful (and profitable!) communication and persuasion. She has worked with literally thousands of the world's business leaders, financial titans, and healthcare professionals to prepare them for important events like media interviews, crisis communications, shareholders meetings, management and peer-to-peer presentations. Her vital and effective executive coaching and training programs make her a frequent interview on communications trends, on such networks as CNN, CNBC and NBC, and keynote speaker for such organizations as The Wharton School of Business, New York University, The Eurostrategy Conference, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, Market Research Association and Healthcare Businesswomen's

Association. Her crisis management communication put her on the short list of go-to crisis consultants – for Johnson & Johnson global pharmaceutical spokespersons during Tylenol Crisis for Martin Marietta for The United States President's Commission on Challenger for NASA administrators and astronauts for in-flight news conferences President and CEO of CommCore Strategies, a global communications consulting and training firm, Karen is a former television producer who pioneered the field of global media training during her tenure at Hill & Knowlton.

Senior Consultants

Kelley Black

Specialties - marketing communications, speaker training, message development, presentation skills, brand management, media relations, internal communications, trade show management

Background - advertising and integrated marketing for Warner-Lambert, Pfizer, Bausch & Lomb, Wyeth-Ayerst and Schering-Plough; graduate of Boston College; managing partner; KBC Exploration, providing stress management services through Pilates, yoga and meditation

Michael Bland – London, UK

Specialties - corporate communication, crisis and issue management, media and presentation skills

Background - author of 13 leading communication text books and creator of "Energy for Life!," a popular stress and personal development course; professor, London Business School, financial journalism for Reuters, government relations and corporate public affairs for Ford Motor Company; fellow: Chartered Institute of Public Relations; member: Business Continuity Institute, Scientific and Medical Network, Institute of Directors

Steve Calleran

Specialties - on-camera training, media and public relations, hosting and moderating, medical training

Background - 25 years in the industry, has served as industrial/training film spokesperson for IBM, Canon, Johnson & Johnson and Hitachi; Public Affairs Officer with the US Navy; professor at Westchester Community College

Patrick J. Collins, PhD

Specialties - executive coaching, regulation communications, media and crisis communication, negotiation, witness preparation

Background - professor and former Chairman, Department of Communications, City University of New York; director, ABC News, WABC Radio news anchor and public affairs host on NYC educational television

Jim Gerth

Specialties - media and public relations, message strategy, product placement, voice recording, event marketing and management

Background - 25 years in the industry, has served on advisory boards for several major pharmaceutical companies; print journalist; manager of celebrity-centered fundraising events; spokesperson for Hilton and Marriott hotel chains, Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, Citibank and the US Postal Service; professor at Adelphi University

Mozelle Goodwin

Specialties - major field medical programming and strategic campaign development and management, clinical trials, VIP training and coaching

Background - Director of Logistics and Director of Client Services for Veritas Communications; Marketing Services, International Symposia development for Sterling International; All Star recognized member of Meeting Professionals International for two years running

Louisa Hart

Specialties - broadcast production, media and public relations, communication strategy, social and political cause strategies and marketing

Background - 20 years in the industry, television producer for USA Today and ABC News (Washington, DC Affiliate); media relations for American Diabetes Association, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Kellogg and Procter and Gamble; senior manager at Porter Novelli International; faculty, The American University and EW Scripps School of Communication, Ohio University; holds a master's in broadcast journalism

Donna M. Hunt-Caraballo

Specialties - content and program development, interactive education, media training, qualitative facilitation, web conference moderation

Background - 14 years in the medical education communications industry, for in-house, professional development and public education programs and campaigns; numerous pharmaceutical product launches; Vice President of Marketing at GR MedEd

Byron Nease

Specialties - media and live presentation skills, cross-cultural communication, performance and interview skills

Background - 25 years in the industry; faculty, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, master-level class professor at universities across the country; interview subject of New York Times, Time Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times, BBC, PBS, guest speaker at The White House and Senate Chamber; developer of holistic physician/hospital training and author of "Behind the Mask"; degree in speech communication from Cal-State Northridge

Cabot Parsons

Specialties - brand architecture and management, media and live performance skills, community and government relations, qualitative facilitation, multi-cultural messaging strategy, Latino market communications

Background - 30 years in the industry, brand architect and consultant for Prudential, NASDAQ, Merrill Lynch, The Mayor's Office of New York City and 9/11 Taskforce, American Diabetes Association, Tuesday's Children, New York – Presbyterian Hospital Network, Ogilvey and Mather, Grey Advertising; national award-winning creative and art director; television program development for both PBS and national/international syndication; professor, State University of New York; fine arts degree from Southern Methodist University

Donna Ramer

Specialties - message development, crisis management, media and presentation training, corporate communications and public relations

Background - Emmy™ nominated media producer; contributor to Healthcare Leadership Review and Report to Congress on information in a changing world; New York City community newspaper reporter and ghost-writer for many senior executives worldwide; advertising experience with Grey, Ruder Finn, GCI and founder of CDHM/Ramer; named to PR Week's Top 50 Healthcare Agency Executives; former chair, communications committee of The Arc, the nation's leading advocacy group for mental and developmental illness

Christian Rieke – Muenster, Germany

Specialties - message development, press conference management, presentation skills, European market communications

Background - former editor, journalist and on-air personality, Tomorrow, Gold de, TV Movie, Westdeutscher Rundfunk; PR consultant for such clients as Germany's DiapharmGruppe and The Netherlands' Spencer Foods Industrial; media campaign director for top medical publications Arzneimittel Zeitung, Arzte Zeitung, Lebensmittel Zeitung and OTC Bulletin; senior manager, Cyrano Kommunikation; masters' in communications/communications management from Muenster University and London Guildhall University

Marie-Claude Stockl

Specialties - customer and public relations management, crisis management planning and response training, product launch and line extension programs, senior corporate communications, bi-lingual in French

Background - over 20 years in the industry with such companies as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Nestle; professional spokesperson for hire to several corporations' public relations crisis management campaigns, publicity and media tours; master's in communications from the University of Paris

Hugh Stuart-Buttle – Manchester, UK

Specialties - strategic planning, product and corporate brand management, issues and crisis management, IPO and financial listing strategy, Asian market communications

Background - over 20 years in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries in Europe, US and the far east; regular conference speaker and visiting lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University; former VP- Communications for Ciba Specialty Chemicals; MBA from Henley Management College and degree in biochemistry from University of Liverpool; member of Chartered Institute of Public Relations

Tom Tolmasoff

Specialties - executive message development, media relations, medical literature development for both the profession and the consumer markets, qualitative facilitation and panel moderation

Background - 20 years' communications experience in financial, manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries; professor at UC Berkeley, Brooklyn College and the Graduate School of Management at The New School in NYC; internationally produced author for both fiction and non-fiction

Lily Tung

Specialties - international media relations, media presentation skills, Asian market communications, bi-lingual in Mandarin

Background - award-winning multi-media journalist and television producer for KRON 4, San Francisco; pioneer in English-language journalism in Shanghai for city's first English monthly as well as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Asiaweek, producer for Shanghai Television, APTV, NBC Nightly News and The Today Show; radio reporter and producer for Public Radio International, BBC and WGBH; fellow, National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University, master's in psychology from University of Santa Monica

Laurel Weber Snyder

Specialties - executive and medical professional coaching, message development, media and live presentation skills, broadcast communications, spokesperson development

Background - over 20 years in the industry; award-winning producer and host of prime-time ABC medical specials and cable television health series; manager of corporate communications for Corning Lab Sciences, coaching for Hoffman La Roche, Novartis, Quest Diagnostics, AT&T and the Robert Wood Johnson Health Network; degree from New York University

Nora Weinerth, PhD

Specialties - healthcare communications, cause advocacy, media and government relations, bi-lingual in Spanish

Background - 25 years' experience in pharmaceutical, banking and financial fields in New York City; professor, Harvard University, Columbia University, Barnard College and the City University of New York; national spokesperson and government consultant on perception and portrayal of mental illness

O'Patrick Wilson - Basel, Switzerland

Specialties - corporate positioning, media relations, internal communications management, international communication, building English language coverage for foreign corporations

Background - head of communications, Syngenta International AG, media relations for Ciba Specialty Chemicals/North America, senior representative for Hitachi America in New York and Tokyo; journalist for Time Magazine, ABC News/Rome; master's in journalism from Columbia University

Client List

Chemical/Energy

Education

Financial Services/Insurance

Food & Beverage

Government & Public Services

Healthcare/Pharmaceutical

Legal

Media

Nonprofit/Associations

Publishing

Technology

Telecommunications

Hospitality/Travel

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