Atlanta-based trainer Bienvenu offers instruction and practical tools to develop and lead training sessions on presentation skills. Using her strategic communication model, she walks through all the phases of preparing a course, including class size, time requirements, selling the workshop to management, room setup, and other aspects. She includes worksheets, exercises, planning steps, scripts, lecture notes, overheads, and handouts.
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, when 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 and training 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, Nokia (Finland), Home Depot, Atlanta Gas, Weeks Corporation, TietoEnator (Finland), SunTrust Banks, American Cancer Society, KPMG-Finland, BellSouth International, Centers for Disease Control, Vegsauki (Iceland), plus numerous individuals and professional organizations.
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 Aalto School of Economics in Finland (formerly 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.
