About the Speaker:

Sonya Hamlin, president of Sonya Hamlin Communications, is a nationally recognized expert in many phases of communication.
Starting as a dancer, choreographer and musician, she attended Julliard and earned a B.S and M.A. from New York University. Hamlin began her communication careers as a performer and chairman of Radcliffe’s Dance Department. Her latest focus— communicating in the courtroom, in the workplace and on the media— includes teaching communication skills at Harvard’s Law School, Kennedy School of Government and Graduate School of Education, Boston University’s Medical School and the School of Public Communication as well at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the U.K. Between these two careers, Hamlin spent many years
communicating on television.
A two-time Emmy Award winner, her television career included hosting and coproducing her own daily TV talk show, The Sonya Hamlin Show, Boston; directing, writing, producing and filming television documentaries and being the first cultural reporter on the news in United States. She has an ongoing role as a jury and communications expert on network television, commenting on highly visible cases such as O.J. Simpson, Oklahoma City bombing, the Clinton impeachment, Michael Jackson, etc. Hamlin is listed in Who’s Who In America, in American Business and of American Women and is elected to the International Women’s Forum.
Sonya Hamlin’s major focus is on business communication—both verbal and visual. She conducts seminars worldwide and consults privately with CEOs and senior executives in many corporations, among them American Express, Bayer Corp., Bristol Myers-Squibb, Citigroup, CIGNA, DuPont, Ernst & Young, IBM, Lehman Bros. Monsanto, MTV, Nickelodeon, Sony, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the U.S. Government.

Her newest book on business communication in the 21st century is How to Talk so People Listen: Connecting in Today’s Workplace (HarperCollins/January 2006).