EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION & LEADERSHIP PRESENCE

Sonji Jacobs, VP of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at Cox Communications, shares how the author vs editor concept helped her gain a better understanding of how to be a better leader.

Noah Toly, Provost at Calvin University, says that the Executive Communication & Leadership Presence course gave him a framework and the tools to better understand the communication landscape and using communication for strategic purposes.

Jermail Shelton, Chief Development Officer at Just Add Honey, discusses how he has become a more confident leader through the concepts he learned, particularly, leading more from a coaching standpoint.

Brandon Smith is a leading expert in leadership communication and curer of workplace dysfunction. Known as “The Workplace Therapist” and host of The Workplace Therapist podcast, Brandon is a sought-after executive coach, TEDx speaker, author and award-winning business school instructor. He is the president of The Worksmiths, LLC, an executive coaching and leadership development firm whose clients include numerous Fortune 500 companies. Since establishing his practice in 2005, Brandon has personally coached more than 1,000 leaders and executives across the globe.

Allison Gilmore is a sought-after facilitator, trainer, and keynote speaker in the field of spontaneous and intuitive leadership. She utilizes a variety of business facilitation and improvisational techniques to impact individual, team, and organizational performance, working within diverse industries. Building upon her 20+ years of professional experience, Allison expertly weaves the tools of improvisation with business management skills to teach the principles of leadership, communication, emotional intelligence and collaboration through intuitive and spontaneous thinking.

Dr. Natasha Ganem is founder and director of Lion Leadership, an executive education and coaching company that helps CEOs build and configure best-in-class leadership teams. Before starting Lion Leadership, Natasha spent 7 years in the Department of Organizational Effectiveness at the Savannah College of Art and Design where she gained certifications and tactical experience in arranging consensus, strategy, and assessment protocols. She also spent 7 years as an award-winning faculty member at the University of Georgia, teaching courses in her academic specialty areas of emotion management, workplace authority, and conflict resolution. She is a recognized thought-leader in the field of leadership science with publications in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, and many academic journals. Today, Natasha continues to teach, yet primarily in the space of executive development and leadership communication both in-house and at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School for Fortune 500 brands such as Lowes, GPC, Mercedes-Benz, Spanx, Purchasing Power, Nielsen, and Weyerhaeuser.