Karen Berg
International Motivational Speaker, Executive Coach and Crisis Consultant. Karen's bestselling books LOUD & 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 and financial titans 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, and The Eurostrategy Conference. Her crisis management communication put her on the short list of go-to crisis consultants.
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
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