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When choosing an organization to improve the effectiveness of the presentation skills/public speaking skills of your executives or sales reps, it’s certainly crucial to ask the question, “Who developed the programs that you’ll be using to train our people and what assurance do we have that your programs will actually produce results?”
At Effective Presentations Inc., we love answering that question! That’s because our programs were developed by our president, Mr. Joel Hochberger.
About Us - Joel Hochberger
Joel Hochberger, president of Effective Presentations Inc. has been a professional trainer and speaker for over 25 years.
Joel has conducted Presentation Skills Workshops in 39 countries and has trained over 22,000 individuals. Graduates of his workshops have ranged from CEO’s (including the president of Tribune Company, president of Abbott Labs, president of Leo Burnett, president of Oppenheimer Funds, president of Canadian Home Products, president of Miller Brewing, president of Eli Lilly, and president of Kellogg’s) to recent college graduates interviewing for their first jobs.
He has trained sales representatives of all levels from beginners to 30 year veterans, and has successfully coached political candidates and dignitaries including the former Premier of Bermuda, the former Mayor of Chicago, and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
His file of testimonials includes letters from some of the most well-known companies in the world including Abbott Laboratories, American Red Cross, Anheuser Busch, Anritsu, AT&T, Bank of California, BusinessWeek, Comerica, Comcast, ComScore, CreditSuisseFirstBoston, Eli Lilly, Ernst & Young, Evanston-Northwestern Hospital, Equity Partners, Foote Cone & Belding, Falk, Fortune Magazine, FoxSportsNet, GE Capital, Governing Magazine, Habitat, Hal Riney & Partners, Inland Real Estate, Kelloggs, Leo Burnett, McDonalds, McKesson, MediaVest, Merrill Lynch, Miller Brewing, Molson’s, Monsanto, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Nabisco, Northwestern Mutual, NRX Global, Oppenheimer Funds, Paine Webber, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Robertson Stephens, Rohm and Haas, Samsung, Scott’s Liquid Gold, Searle, Sembler, Seven-Up, SunTrust, Sygma, J. Walter Thompson, Time Inc., TimeWarner Telecom, Tribune Company, United States Department of Defense, United States Coast Guard, UNOCAL, Virtuas, Voxify, and Wyeth.
The Real World Approach:
Joel has been a guest lecturer for many colleges and universities including the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of St. Thomas, University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, University of Notre Dame, and Northwestern University.
He has been the featured luncheon speaker for many organizations including the American Advertising Federation, Sales and Marketing Executives, Marketing Research Association, International Association of Business Communicators, and the American Marketing Association.
In addition to his platform expertise, Joel is an accomplished author who has had many articles published in TRAINING MAGAZINE and SAM (Sales, Advertising, Marketing) MAGAZINE. He has been quoted in many other publications including USA Today, The Chicago Sun Times, and FoxNews.com and has been a featured guest on the award-winning WCIU-TV program, “Ask An Expert!” (Joel is the guy who Fox News called to critique President Bush’s speaking skills.)
His “real world” approach to the important area of Presentation Skills enables participants to develop their own skills which they can immediately use to deliver presentations that are clear, concise, interesting and persuasive!