I occasionally write speeches for chief executive officers and others. Here are some descriptions, including one you can download. The others are available upon request.
* Fairfax County Speech, Fairfax County,VA, January 2003
Personally delivered keynote address on the importance of employee training to employees of Fairfax County, VA, the state’s richest and most populous county. The speech included a great deal of research on other counties and their approaches to learning.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, 2001
Wrote keynote address on e-learning for Jill Kidwell, a PwC executive who led an effort to land a major educational contract with the U.S. Army. Delivered at the Sloan Foundation’s annual e-learning conference, Kidwell’s speech looked at how PwC won a $473 million contract to create a portal called “earmyu” and the current state of e-learning.
* Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 2001
Wrote two major speeches for dean David Kidwell focusing on challenges of creating great places to work. Kidwell delivered one speech at a major joint management-labor conference in New York City, the other before an audience of more than 300 in Minneapolis on “Great Places To Work.” The New York speech, 21st Century Workforce, received a First Place Crystal Clarion Award from the Association for Women in Communications, Twin Cities’ chapter.
* 24/7 Media, 1998
Wrote two speeches for CEO David Moore on trends in advertising on the Internet, which he delivered at Adweek’s New York Internet conference in October, 1998, and on Internet advertising and its implications, delivered in Beijing, November 1998.
* Connors Communications, New York office, Speechwriter (1995-1996)
For Prodigy, Inc. CEO Ed Bennett: “The Survival of Commercial Online Services In The Age of The Internet,” delivered at MIT, December, 1995; “Interactivity In The Next Five Years, Speedway to the Home,” presented at Comnet convention in Washington D.C. on February 1,1996.
For Marc Jacobson, Prodigy General Counsel, “Free Speech on the Internet,” delivered October 22, 1996 for the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education’s “New Jersey Holocaust Mandate in the Computer Age: Strategies For Confronting Hate on the Internet Conference.”
