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New York, United States

Copyediting services for op-eds and articles written by African women climate experts. Pieces cover a wide range of topics within the climate discourse, including energy, oceans, and food systems. Africa Renewal, a digital magazine under the United Nations, focuses on Africa's economic, social, and political challenges, as well as the solutions developed by Africans themselves, with the support of the United Nations and the international community.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Provides writing and design consulting services for the revision of an enterprise system user manual to support the system upgrade. Work product includes new module documentation, revision of existing modules, creation of online wiki content, training presentations, and workflow cheat sheets for users. (Contract project.)

New York, Ny

Communications consulting, including strategic planning, managing, writing, editing, social media, and public speaking training for corporate, education, government, and nonprofit organizations. Among clients are CCFL, Columbia University, Covance, Deloitte and Touche, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers,Quest Diagnostics, The Reading Team, Stryker Orthopaedics, Thomson Reuters, TIAA-CREF, the United Nations, etc.

Manages marketing, communications, and development. Raises approximately $1,00,000/year from a variety of foundation and corporate sources. Oversees the organization's social networks, ensuring effective editorial content and optimization of all available channels to expand the Reading Team brand.

Greater New York City Area

Multi-level editorial services for major publications, e.g., Annual Reports, Evaluation Reports, Research Papers, Guidance Notes, and more, produced by UN Women Communications Office HQ. Primary focus is on ensuring accurate and high-quality grammar, punctuation, and spelling, and content that is readable and concise prepared in accordance with the agency's style guide.

New York, Ny

Led communications strategy, content creation, and editorial support for UNDP’s International Aid Transparency Initiative implementation and launch of open.undp.org, delivering messaging across an array of channels to internal and external audiences about the agency's 6,000+ development projects in 177 countries. (Contract project.)

New York, Ny

Headed the OFA communications team for a major accounting standards implementation project, establishing strategy and overseeing the implementation of tactics. Managed the design, creation, and maintenance of tools and materials, arranging for translations of all deliverables. Also provided editorial, stylistic, and presentation guidance, and collaborated in the development of training. A vital function involved communicating with UNDP’s extended staff, executive board, donors, and programme governments. Additional assignments included style consulting and editing of policy documents, and development and disaster planning reports for the Maldives and Swaziland. (Contract project.)

Managed internal and external executive communications for managing partner, including: planning and carrying out the communications strategy for firm integration, i.e., acquisition of the consulting function and Anderson Partners, offshore office build, and enterprise-wide re-organization. He wrote monthly editorials to the partnership, Annual Report, and special assignments, provided executive speech coaching, and managed contract writers. External roles involved branding of managing partner as leader in national educational debate through key speech placements, media interviews, and social media activities.

Washington, D.C.

Produced articles and speeches for executives at IBM, the National Skills Standards Board, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Lawrence Ragan Communications, and others. Delivered speech coaching services to multiple clients.

Corning, Ny

Was responsible for strategic executive communications planning—strategic and tactical—for companywide quality adoption/change management, investor road shows, product and marketing campaigns, and internal corporate-wide messaging. Served as communications lead for a major re-engineering program and M&As, JVs, spinoffs, and crisis projects. Authored speeches for Chairman Jamie Houghton and CEO Roger Ackerman for all audiences that chiefly conveyed the importance of high-tech R&D; and developed a speaker’s bureau of executive spokespersons that featured training and placement components. Managed budget and professional development of writers, designers, and production staff.

White Pains, Ny

Handled strategic planning and preparation of PR/media campaigns and executive briefings, responsible for tracking business division goals and tactics, and refreshing and distributing media and crisis communications plans. Vital to this mission was placing stories on IBM products and services in major and vertical media, and serving as point of contact for outside media and internal staff. He was selected as a communications counsel on several special task forces in support of product launches, divisional reorganizations, change management efforts, facilities projects, community service campaigns, and more. At division headquarters level, served as editorial manager of both an internal executive newsletter and employee magazine, managing a team of writers. Also authored speeches and presentations, and coached division presidents in preparation for internal and external forums.

B.A., English Literature And Political Science

Developing Leaders Program For Nonprofit Professionals

Executive Management Program