Speakers Bureau - IABC/Houston
Welcome to the IABC Houston Speakers Bureau
Is your organization seeking an informative, articulate and entertaining speaker? IABC Houston offers a variety of distinguished communications professionals who have volunteered to talk about their areas of expertise to interested audiences in the Houston area, and even beyond
Our experts provide advice on the finer points of communications, including, but not limited to, photography, advertising, marketing, speechwriting, general business communications, crisis communications, and media relations. If you have a special topic request or would like to be included in our speakers bureau, let us know. You may send inquiries to Joe Fournet, Speakers Bureau Chair, at j4net@ideasnmore.net.
Our Speakers:
(listed in no special order or preference and subject to change)
Terri Ammerman
Terri Ammerman is president and chief executive officer of The Ammerman Experience. She has worked with clients throughout the United States and the world, providing counsel and training for a variety of communication issues and events.
Terri has given strategic communications advice to top executives and technical staff of nuclear power plants, upstream, midstream and downstream energy companies, major food manufacturers and major retailers as well as others who have to create and deliver tough messaging in the public forum.
Her travels have taken her all over the U.S. as well as to Brazil, Guatemala, Venezuela, Japan and Iceland. Visit her web site, www.ammermanexperience.com.
Suzanne Salvo
Suzanne Salvo and her husband/partner Chris are co-owners of Salvo Photography, an international award-winning studio based in Houston, TX. Specializing in location shooting, assignments for clients such as Lockheed Martin, Travelocity, The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and ExxonMobil have taken them to nearly 50 countries.
Suzanne has conducted workshops and seminars on visual communications and digital photography topics across the USA and in several other countries. She is a highly rated speaker at Ragan Communications Conferences and IABC International and District Conferences.
For more information, visit her web site at www.salvophoto.com.
Joe Fournet
A Louisiana native with a multi-disciplined background of over 20 years in the advertising and marketing industry, Joe moved to Houston in the late eighties to become Regional Manager of the Bozell Worldwide office for the Chrysler account.
After Bozell, Joe opened his own marketing consultancy, Ideas & MORE, where he has served such clients as Halliburton, Bechtel, Spectra Energy, The Fawcett Group, and WaterLogic-Texas.
Well-versed in communicating to various target markets, Joe speaks on the role of creativity in marketing, the importance of the idea in conveying one's message, as well as tips-n-tricks to enhance one's creativity.
See more details at Joe’s web site, www.ideasnmore.net.
Tom Downing
Tom Downing serves as a Managing Partner of The Turning Point Group, a customer retention firm recognized for their ability to deliver positive customer experience and customer retention strategies.
Tom has more than 20 years of experience in marketing, consulting, developing CRM, and customer service for a variety of industries.
Tom also served as the Director of Customer Relationship Marketing for Cingular Wireless where he directed and managed programs that included: Customer Loyalty, Customer Profiling, and Internet Marketing/eCommerce.
His efforts resulted in a CRM model that led to among the lowest customer defection rates in the Cingular Wireless system.
Contact Tom at: tdowning@turningpointgroup.com.
Alise Isbell
Alise Isbell is an experienced facilitator and communication expert with award-winning writing and instructional design ability to help people and organizations achieve their goals. She helps companies develop, design and deliver training in writing, speaking and behavior.
Alise enjoys topics including: business writing, effective communication, customer service, corporate image and presentation skills.
Her clients include: ExxonMobil, Lockton, Friedkin Companies, PETEX, BHI, Technip, YMCA, Birkman International and others.
Alise serves as the 2008 President-Elect for ASTD- Houston Chapter and Co-President for IABC's Entrepreneur Strategic Interest Group. She holds a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Business Communication.
More information about Alise is at www.writewisecommunications.com
Maggie Seeliger is the principal and founder of Metricus Marketing and teaches companies how to implement marketing strategy, communications and metrics to help drive sales.
Seeliger has more than a decade of experience in marketing management for Fortune 500 companies in technology, oil and gas, and engineering and construction. She regularly speaks about business-to-business marketing and has published numerous articles on marketing-related topics.
Seeliger currently holds the position of president, American Marketing Association Houston. She is a member of numerous organizations including the Women's Energy Network, the International Association of Business Communicators, and the Junior League of Houston.
She has a BA from the University of Iowa and a MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas. Visit www.metricusmarketing.com for more information.
John Sturtevant is a top-rated international speaker at conferences and association events. He also presents onsite business writing training at organizations worldwide.
John co-developed a business-writing curriculum and taught at Harvard Business School for five years. He also created a communications program and served as Professor of Business Communications at The European School of Economics in Rome, Italy.
John was also Vice President of Marketing for an Internet software company, which was acquired in 2000. Previously, John was a partner at SturtevantFishbourne, an award-winning, full-service advertising and marketing agency in Boston. You can learn more at: www.thewritingworkshop.org.
