About

After teaching speech and communications at the college level for a decade (I have a PhD in Speech), I moved to the business world as a speech trainer and joined Burson-Marsteller’s media training group in New York in 1985.

I’ve had the pleasure of leading speech and media training sessions for thousands of executives, professionals, and government officials and have worked closely with marketing, public relations and corporate affairs professionals as clients, as well as hundreds of Burson colleagues, including many of the finest PR practitioners in the business.

While communications training (media, speech, presentations, hearings, crisis, etc.) has been central to my activities at Burson,  my practice has also included client management, media strategy, crisis management and public affairs.  This strategic communications counsel has greatly enriched my abilities as a trainer.

The Professional Communicator blog is an effort to share my current thinking about communications training with former and current clients, colleagues and the many, many people who stand before the press and public every day as spokespersons for their organizations.

Don Cunningham