Joyce Newman

Joyce Newman, founder of The Newman Group, helps professionals to improve their communications skills in a variety of speaking situations - from platform presentations to media interviews.

Joyce leads presentation skills workshops and media training sessions in which she teaches clients effective video techniques; coaches them for testimony and presentations in security analyst and shareholder meetings, sales conferences, and new product introductions; and assists clients in designing and conducting road-shows for initial public offerings.

An expert speaker, Joyce frequently addresses industry and association conferences throughout the United States on the subjects of "Managing the Media", "Powerful Presentations" and "Selling Yourself".

Her clients include such diverse organizations as the American Diabetes Association, AXA Financial, BBDO Worldwide, Bear, Stearns & Co., Biogen Idec, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Brown-Forman Corporation, CARE, Coca-Cola North America, The Gillette Company, Hearst Corporation, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Legg Mason & Co. LLC, Luxottica Retail, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Proskauer Rose LLP, The Reader's Digest Association, Sara Lee Corporation, USA TODAY and Weyerhauser Company.

Joyce also works with publishing companies including Ballantine Publishing Group, Disney Publishing Worldwide, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Harper Collins Publishers, Penguin/Putnam Books USA, and Simon & Schuster. She has helped many best-selling authors to prepare for national media tours including Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, "In Our Defense"; Lorenzo Carceterra, "Sleepers" and "Apaches"; Johnnie Cochran, "Journey to Justice"; Shirley Conran, "Lace"; Nicholas Dodman, "The Dog Who Loved Too Much"; Janet Evanovich, "Hard Eight" and "To The Nines"; John Fairchild, "Chic Savages"; Marilyn French, "Her Mother's Daughter"; Victoria Gotti, "The Senator's Daughter"; Michael Korda, "The Fortune", "Curtain" and "The Immortals"; Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, "The Nanny Diaries: A Novel"; Anne Perry, "Traitor's Gate" and "The Sins of the Wolf"; and Edward Rutherfurd, "Sarum".

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Joyce holds an M.A. from New York University, a Certificate of Clinical Competency from the American Speech & Hearing Association; and a Speech/Language Practitioner License from New York State. Elected to Women Executives in Public Relations, she holds memberships in the Financial Women's Association, Public Relations Society of America and Women in Communications. Joyce lives in New York City with her husband, Richard, their daughter (Wendi), Little Romeo (a Coton de Tulear) and Sammy (a cat).