Michael J. Jordan

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Founder and Principal @ MJ Method Communications
New York, NY, US
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New York, New York, United States, United States
About Michael J. Jordan

No, I’m not THAT Michael Jordan. ;) I’m a Global Communications Specialist who relishes the challenge of helping you and your organization strategically engage and persuasively impact your target-audience. With evidence-driven content.I’m the Founder of MJ Method Communications, a New York-based boutique consultancy specializing in Global Communications, Media Relations, Executive Coaching, Staff Training, Thought Leadership, Strategic Storytelling – and other forms of content-creation.In a career spanning three fields, I feel fortunate to have lived on four continents: including Europe, Africa & Asia. As a Foreign Correspondent, I’m a former UN correspondent who’s reported from 30 countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Southern Africa, for media like Foreign Policy magazine; the French news agency AFP; the Christian Science Monitor newspaper; and South Africa’s Mail & Guardian.As a Visiting Professor of International Journalism, I’ve taught from New York to Hong Kong, from Prague to Maseru. Most recently, I taught courses at top Chinese universities in Beijing & Shanghai; in 2021, I returned to Long Island University-Brooklyn to teach Journalism & Social Media.As a Global Communications specialist and author of "The Global Communications Toolkit" (with 4,800-plus subscribers), I share my skills, strategies and storytelling styles with for-profit and non-profit clients. My Consultancies have ranged from HIV orphans and maternal health in Africa (while living in Lesotho), to environmental protection and telecommunications in China (while based in Beijing).Now back in New York, my clients have ranged from Chinese pharmaceutical and laser-tech companies, to the Mekong River Commission in Southeast Asia, and the International Committee for the Red Cross in Geneva. For more, visit my website: https://themjmethod.com. Passionate about impacting audiences, I always develop my own curricula for skills-centric courses, trainings and workshops. For samples, visit my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@mjmethodcommunications. Watch my Webinar on "How to Elevate your Brand-Building & Develop Your Thought Leadership" or my Webinar on "ESG & Sustainability Storytelling."Meanwhile, I volunteer as a Global Communications Advisor: for the Nigerian women’s NGO Tech Herfrica, which aims to break the cycle of poverty among rural families; and for the American NGO “A Song for You,” which focuses on music as therapy for grieving families.To address your Communications needs, contact me for a free, 30-minute Consultation: michael@themjmethod.com.

Michael J. Jordan's Current Company Details
MJ Method Communications

Mj Method Communications

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Michael J. Jordan Work Experience Details
  • Mj Method Communications
    Founder And Principal
    Mj Method Communications
    New York, Ny, Us
  • Tech Herfrica
    Global Communications Advisor
    Tech Herfrica Feb 2024 - Present
    Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
    • Architect of this Nigerian women's NGO's Global Communications strategy, to align with TH's mission of advancing digital and financial inclusion for women and girls in rural African communities.• Elevates TH's Media Relations to enhance its visibility on international platforms, thereby extending its influence and reach.• Cultivates the TH staff's storytelling excellence to ensure that their communications are compelling, impactful, and grounded in authenticity.• Provides expert advice on the integration of modern communication technologies and digital strategies to optimize TH's engagement across various channels.• Conducts workshops and seminars to mentor and uplift the TH communication team’s capabilities in handling complex narratives and global issues.• Guided the team to create the NGO's evidence-driven "Stories of Impact" page.
  • Sia-Africa (Sustainable Initiatives And Alliances For Africa)
    Global Communications Advisor
    Sia-Africa (Sustainable Initiatives And Alliances For Africa) Aug 2024 - Present
    New York, United States
    *Advise this NGO's Founder and team on how to persuasively prove the organization's true on-the-ground impact, in Ghana and elsewhere - with evidence-driven content.*Also serving as Writing Coach, Strategic Storyteller and Content Creator.
  • Inside Fashion Design & The Conscious Fashion Design Academy
    Impact Communications Coach, Writing Workshop Trainer
    Inside Fashion Design & The Conscious Fashion Design Academy Sep 2024 - Present
    Portland, Oregon, United States
    *Advise the Founder & CEO, Britta Cabanos, on how to prove her organization's impact on others.*Developed the curriculum - and will lead - a unique workshop for the CFDA: "Prove Your Impact! A Content-Creation Workshop for Conscious Fashion Brands – to Avoid the Greenwashing Accusation"
  • Mj Method Communications
    Founder & Ceo
    Mj Method Communications Jun 2020 - Present
    New York, United States
    This boutique Global Communications Consultancy applies its Founder's unique hybrid of strategies, skills and storytelling styles, drawn from both International Journalism and Global Communications - and known collectively as the #MJMethod. Offers clients this range of services, tailored to their needs:• Strategic Communications, Corporate Communications, Crisis Comms, Public Affairs• Cross-Cultural Communications: How to Impact a Smart-but-Skeptical Foreign Audience• Marketing, Branding, Messaging, Content Creation, Impact Stories, CEO Storytelling, etc.• Counseling C-Suite Execs: Broadcast, Print, Digital Media Interviews, Talking-Points, etc.• Media Relations, Story Pitching & Media-Coverage Analysis (Both American & Foreign)• Staff Training: Specialized Curriculum for Soft-Skills Instruction, Coaching & MentoringFor more, visit https://themjmethod.com
  • Beberavi Collection
    Global Communications Advisor
    Beberavi Collection Jul 2024 - Present
    Nakuru, Kenya
    I provide both Strategic and Executive Communications to Siamanda Chege, the Founder & CEO of this unique Social Enterprise in Africa, which employs some 300 Kenyan women - many of whom are HIV widows. A portion of revenue is then directed to The Chege Village, an orphanage that Chege founded in her Kenyan hometown, Nakuru. Specifically, I advise Chege on how to prove to her target-audience - with concrete, credible, persuasive evidence - that Beberavi is truly making a difference and helping break the cycle of poverty for her team of women.
  • A Song For You
    Strategic Communications Advisor, Content Creator
    A Song For You Apr 2022 - Present
    New York, United States
    *Advise the Founder & CEO, the singer/songwriter, Emily Cavanagh, with how to prove the impact that this music-therapy NGO has had on hospice patients and their families.*Create evidence-driven content - in the form of strategic-storytelling videos - to prove ASFY's impact.
  • Connectaid
    Ambassador
    Connectaid Apr 2022 - Apr 2024
    Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
  • Mekong River Commission Secretariat
    Executive Communications Writer
    Mekong River Commission Secretariat Mar 2022 - Jan 2024
    Vientiane, Laos
    Writing OpEds, Speeches, major reports and Press Releases for this not-for-profit, intergovernmental organization focused on protecting the mighty Mekong River. This Content Creation is actually a hybrid of Strategic Communications and Cross-Cultural Communications, aimed to resonate and raise awareness among foreign audiences, about the challenges faced by Southeast Asia's largest waterway, which is the lifeblood for some 70 million people - such as climate change and hydropower development.
  • Medicines For Malaria Venture
    Communications Specialist, Media Relations
    Medicines For Malaria Venture Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
    Geneva, Switzerland
    Communications Planning, Strategic Communications, Media Relations, Executive Writing, Brand Building
  • North American Ecosystem Institute
    Vice President Of Global Communications & Media Relations, Ny Office
    North American Ecosystem Institute Dec 2021 - Jun 2023
    New York, United States
    *Business development, advising Chinese companies that are expanding into the U.S. and other Western markets, on how to impact their target-audience most persuasively.*Consulting on: Strategic Communications, Corporate Communications, Brand Building, Core Messaging, Media Relations, Content Creation, CEO Storytelling, Staff Training, etc.
  • Immigrant Care
    Senior Communications Specialist
    Immigrant Care Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
    New York City Metropolitan Area
    *Amid COVID pandemic, I volunteered for this NGO, focusing on immigrant healthcare.*Strategized with CEO & trained volunteers in how to illuminate “healthcare insecurity” - of documented & undocumented immigrants - via humanized, evidence-based storytelling.
  • Long Island University
    Adjunct Full Professor Of Journalism
    Long Island University Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
    Brooklyn, New York, United States
    During Spring 2021 semester taught:*News Reporting 1 & 2*Journalism, Social Media & You*Social Media Theory & Practice*Also served as Faculty Advisor to the LIU student newspaper, Seawanhaka.
  • Huawei
    Global Communications Consultant, Media-Relations Specialist
    Huawei Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
    Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
    • For this controversial Chinese telecoms giant, worked remotely amid COVID, from US.• Analyzed/critiqued all 2020 External Communication products (video, article, social media).• Recommended how to improve effectiveness of those, plus book, documentary projects.• Shared insights into the psyche of Western media - and how to pitch them stories effectively.• Shared insights into China’s foreign audience - and how to communicate with them persuasively.
  • Cgtn (China Global Television Network)
    News Editor, Scriptwriter, Foreign-Media Analyst
    Cgtn (China Global Television Network) Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
    Beijing, China
    Served as News Editor, Scriptwriter and Foreign-Media Analyst for "The Point with Liu Xin" - a top opinion show on the China Global Television Network. This nightly, 30-minute program explores world events from a Beijing perspective. (However, the COVID pandemic forced me to resign and flee back to New York.)
  • Self-Employed
    Freelance Foreign Correspondent/International Journalist
    Self-Employed Jun 1994 - Feb 2020
    As a freelance Foreign Correspondent, I've parachuted into and reported from 30 countries over the past 27 years – mostly in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Southern Africa – for publications like Foreign Policy magazine; French news agency AFP; Christian Science Monitor; Harvard’s Nieman Reports; and South Africa’s Mail & Guardian. Previously based in: Budapest, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; Maseru, Lesotho. From 2001-2005, in the wake of 9/11, was a New York-based UN correspondent covering terrorism, Iraq, Afghanistan, peacekeeping, etc.
  • Renmin University Of China
    Visiting Professor Of International Journalism
    Renmin University Of China Feb 2016 - Jan 2020
    Beijing City, China
    • In Beijing’s oldest Journalism school, teaching in the Graduate program for International Journalism and Communications.• Have developed my own curriculum to teach courses in Environmental Storytelling, International Reporting and Feature Writing - as well as an undergrad course in "English Writing & Speech."• Created a course Webzine as a platform and showcase for my students and their polished, published stories: https://lettersfrombeijing2017.wordpress.com.• Applying my style of "Cautious Communications" to journalism, in order to effectively "open a window" onto fast-changing China - and many of the challenges it faces.
  • Princetonow Education Services Inc.
    Senior Specialist, University Application Essays
    Princetonow Education Services Inc. Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
    Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
    In this booming Chinese metropolis, I coach some of the city's best and brightest teens through the essay-writing portion of their application to top American universities.
  • Mars
    Global Communications Consultant
    Mars Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
    Beijing City, China
    At the Mars Corporation's Global Food Safety Center in Beijing, my part-time consultancy focused on training and coaching Chinese members of the Communications team to produce a range of internal and external written-communications. The aim was to persuasively impact our foreign audience through what I call "message-driven, evidence-based, humanized content."
  • Beijing Foreign Studies University
    Guest Lecturer
    Beijing Foreign Studies University Mar 2016 - May 2018
    Beijing City, China
    I'm a frequent contributor to this unique Master's program in International Multimedia Journalism, hosted by BFSU and led by the University of Bolton.
  • Shanghai International Studies University
    Visiting Professor
    Shanghai International Studies University Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
    Shanghai Suburb, China
    In the SISU Master's program in International Journalism, led 32 grad students through my short, intensive "Foreign Reporting from Shanghai" course. Created a course Webzine, as a platform and showcase for all the stories that the students produced and polished: https://lettersfromshanghai2017.wordpress.com.
  • U.S. Embassy In China
    Communications Consultant, Storytelling Specialist
    U.S. Embassy In China Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
    Beijing City, China
    *In one of the world’s worst-polluted countries – and its greatest emitter of greenhouse gases – I led my own Communications-and-Advocacy-through-Storytelling project, The Chinese Champions of Environmental Protection.*Trained Chinese environmental activists in how to write and share their own story of awakening and inspiration, as they began to make a difference in their own communities. The aim: a how-to guide to raise awareness, as well as inspire legions of others.*The stories published online in English communicated a dual message: more Chinese now care about the environment, and more Chinese are now taking steps to protect it.
  • Transitions Online
    Senior Journalism Trainer
    Transitions Online Dec 2006 - Aug 2016
    Prague
    Train international participants through the pound-the-pavement reporting project of TOL's Foreign Correspondent Training Course. Have also trained Roma-minority journalists in Eastern Europe.
  • Hong Kong Baptist University
    Visiting Scholar
    Hong Kong Baptist University Sep 2009 - Apr 2016
    Hong Kong
    Within HKBU's renowned International Journalism program, I teach the short, intensive course I created: "Foreign Reporting from Hong Kong." (Will return in February 2016.)
  • International Labor Organization
    Communications Consultant
    International Labor Organization Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
    Beijing City, China
    Providing ILO staff in Beijing with writing-skills and media training, serving as Editor-in-Chief of the ILO-Beijing newsletter, and delivering other written-communications products to help raise awareness of ILO efforts to promote "Decent Work" in the world's second-largest economy.
  • Management Sciences For Health
    Communications Consultant
    Management Sciences For Health Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
    Lesotho
    In a country that suffers the world's second-highest rate of HIV infection, produced a storytelling project that chronicled - through stories and photos - MSH's impact on Lesotho's HIV Orphans and Vulnerable Children.
  • Freelance
    Foreign Correspondent
    Freelance 1994 - Jun 2015
    Based In Budapest, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; Maseru, Lesotho; New York, Ny
    Foreign correspondent, reporting from 30 countries, for Foreign Policy, Agence France-Presse, Christian Science Monitor, Global Post, South Africa's Mail & Guardian, and many others.
  • The Mantle
    Correspondent
    The Mantle 2010 - Apr 2015
    Southern Africa/Central Europe
    Produce "Postcards" that open a window onto daily life, first while I was based in Central Europe, then in Southern Africa.
  • Afp
    Correspondent
    Afp Sep 2014 - Feb 2015
    Lesotho
    Soon after a coup-attempt in August 2014 rocked this tiny African kingdom, I became the lone Western correspondent living in-country to report on the instability that followed - for the AFP, and many others.
  • The Christian Science Monitor
    Correspondent
    The Christian Science Monitor Oct 1995 - Nov 2014
    Slovakia
    Formerly its Budapest-based correspondent, then at the United Nations, and back to Central Europe, in Bratislava.
  • World Vision Usa
    Communications Consultant
    World Vision Usa Apr 2014 - May 2014
    Lesotho
    Designed and led an awareness-raising, storytelling training for Lesotho journalists on Maternal-Child Health.
  • Jhpiego
    Communications Consultant
    Jhpiego Sep 2013 - Nov 2013
    Lesotho
    Designed and led a training for Lesotho journalists on Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision - the most controversial, thus most sensitive, of HIV-prevention methods.
  • University Of Sts. Cyril And Methodius, Trnava, Slovakia
    Adjunct Professor
    University Of Sts. Cyril And Methodius, Trnava, Slovakia Sep 2007 - Jun 2009
    Taught Journalism
  • The New School
    Master Of Science In International Affairs
    The New School 2004 - 2006
    Conflict and Security
  • Long Island University
    Adjunct Professor
    Long Island University 2002 - 2006
    George Polk Journalist-in-Residence, Faculty Advisor to the Student Newspaper, Journalism Course Instructor

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