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Sherron Bienvenu began her
communication career as Shreveport, Louisiana’s first female disc jockey.
A
degree in theatre from Centenary College plus a masters in broadcast management
from SMU led to several more positions in radio, including copywriting and
sales. She left radio for public relations and then left Dallas for
Atlanta—which took her back to theatre.
Her adventures in Atlanta theatre
connected her with academia and eventually with Emory University, where she
earned a PhD in social psychology and taught communication for 20 years. She
built the communication program for undergraduates and MBAs at the Goizueta
Business School at Emory and left with emeritus status. During those years, she
built a consulting practice, wrote three books, and raised a
daughter. She moved her consulting practice (and her home) to Utah in 2002.
Dr. Sherron Bienvenu provides professional,
managerial, and corporate communication counsel,
coaching, and training for corporations
and individuals. Her corporate clients include Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, AT&T, Home Depot,
iBAHN, Atlanta Gas, Weeks Corporation, SunTrust Banks, Guardian Life Insurance, American
Cancer Society, BellSouth International, NuSkin, Centers for Disease
Control, Vegsauki (Iceland), plus numerous individuals and professional
organizations. In Finland, clients include Nokia, Nordea Bank, TietoEnator,
KPMG, Foreca, and Sanoma.
She has worked with a comprehensive range of industries and
functional areas: sales, advertising, defense, marketing, healthcare,
consulting, public relations, broadcasting, real estate, law, education,
banking, finance, law enforcement, fundraising, manufacturing, public utilities,
and telecommunications.
Her breadth of experience
and expertise means she helps a wide range of people communicate more
effectively— from firefighters to fighter pilots, secretaries to CEOs, engineers
to PR professionals, under-confident beginners to over-confident MBAs.
In addition to consulting
and training, Sherron is an experienced and
engaging speaker on many communication topics, applying her dynamic delivery
to relevant, pragmatic material. She is also a Visiting Professor in the
International MBA program at the Helsinki School of Economics where she teaches
Management Communication and Managing Corporate Reputation. She recently
received the HSE MBA 25th Anniversary Award 2009 for outstanding teaching and
valuable contribution to the program.
Recognized as a
communication expert, Sherron is frequently
interviewed by media representatives and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, NPR, and
many network affiliates. She has been quoted in popular publications (such as
Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health, PINK, Ladies Home
Journal, and Fortune Small Business), online news sources (such as
Forbes.com, Knowledge@Emory, and Entrepreneur.com), and large
newspapers (such as The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta
Journal-Constitution). She has also been featured in the Icelandic and Finnish press.
Sherron's latest book,
Straight Talk, Oral Communication for Career Success (in collaboration with
Paul R. Timm), is a professional text designed around her Straight Talk model. Just Talking featured a collection of
early articles from her popular e-newsletter (Sorry, but no longer available.). She co-authored Business Communication:
Discovering Strategy, Developing Skills (Prentice Hall, 2002) and
CrossTalk: Communicating in a Multicultural Workplace (Prentice Hall,
1997). The Presentation Skills Workshop was released in January 2000 by
AMACOM Books, the publishing arm of the American Management Association.
She wrote and appears as on-camera spokesperson in two training videos,
Winning Presentations and Winning Credibility, released in early
1998.
Her current goals include
perfecting a handstand in yoga, being invited to work for another 10 years, and inspiring people everywhere that their options should
not be limited based on their gender. |
