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Don Berk: Don Berk, Top International Communications Consultant and Speaker Coach--tips on speaking, stage fright, graphics and media, collaborative style, Q&A plus career lessons
Don Berk is a communications consultant with an outstanding track record lecturing, coaching, writing, consulting, and implementing spoken, graphic, and multimedia communication strategies. His clients include world-class companies in information technology, pharmaceutical, health, consumer packaged goods, publishing, and other industries. He also leads communication seminars and workshops, and coaches business speakers and other public figures. Don is often called on to kick off initiatives, facilitate groups, plan off-sites, and bring people together to work toward a common goal regardless of their individual agendas.

Don honed his skills as founder, writer, producer, and director of his own video production companies in New York and Connecticut, where he created videos for such companies as IBM, GE, the Red Cross, Deloitte & Touche, Young & Rubicam, PaineWebber, Procter & Gamble, Amgen, Centocor, and the US Army, among others. The common thread in all these videos was the engaging on-camera performances of each company's spokespersons. He refined his coaching skills during seven years as creative director at Gartner, the world's leading IT research and advisory firm, and during more recent stints directing communications for Bristol-Myers Squibb and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Don currently consults with a variety of companies.

Outside work, Don serves as councilperson for Doylestown Borough in Pennsylvania, chairs both its Personnel and Environment & Recreation Committees, is liaison to the local Environment Advisory Council, and is president-elect of the Bucks County Boroughs Association. Don is a committed fund raiser for various causes, is a ride leader with the Central Bucks Bicycle Club, and was a nationally ranked squash player. He received his Bachelor of Science in Economics from Franklin & Marshall College and his M.A. in painting and video from New York University.

Contact: don.berk@comcast.net