Lynn Espinoza is a broadcast news veteran with more than a decade of media, presentation and executive coaching experience. She has developed personal coaching sessions for Fortune 100 C-level executives, corporate communicators of all kinds, doctors, lawyers and leaders in non-profit.
Archive for June, 2009
Class of 2009
I attended my step-daughter’s high school graduation ceremony last night. Beautiful; fresh-faced; hopeful young people! The combination of excitment and fear sparkled in their eyes, as if to remind us that they still need us.
Graduation speeches are sort of like wedding sermons. New grads aren’t paying any more attention to the commencement speeches than a nervous […]
An Interesting Conversation
Like a lot of you, I blog all over the place. And sometimes I post in other places blog entries that originated here. A few days ago, I posted my last entry “Obama’s Media Strategy: Blitz or Backfire?” on one of my favorite sites for communicators, ragan.com.
Anyway.. there is a lively discussion going on over […]
Obama’s Media Strategy: Blitz or Backfire?
I was first a journalist; then a public relations executive; now a communications coach. Atop this tripod of experience, I see that:
Barack Obama remains, all by himself, a compelling story (journalists love that)
He has a publicity machine unmatched by any other administration (PR folks love that)
Everytime he opens his mouth, something silky-smooth comes out (communications […]
On Commencement Speeches
I’m a commencement speech junkie. I like to study all kinds of speeches, but grad night speeches always appeal to my inner softie. I imagine myself - fresh-faced at 22; whole world ahead of me - taking in one of this month’s commencement addresses. I can get choked-up pretty quickly listening to all of those […]