Helen Jonsen
Executive Communications Coach
- Communication Consultant
- Located in Hudson Valley, NY – working globally
- Media relations, non-profits, mission-driven orgs
- Professional roots in journalism, business, broadcasting
Helen’s kaleidoscope career offers decades of experience from newsrooms to corporate boardrooms, from startups to established publishers, from nonprofits to government agencies. She has been an entrepreneur and executive at the confluence of digital media and business disruption.
As a multi-platform journalist, media coach, media relations pro, writer, and trainer, Helen has been a strategic business and editorial advisor to executives and entrepreneurs, media networks, nonprofits, government agencies, and corporations.
Storytelling is in Helen’s DNA and at the heart of everything she creates. As a veteran journalist, Helen covered breaking news and financial/business news, long-format feature news, and other coverage for national and international television networks and online media. She has been a contributor to a variety of publications and the author of several books.
In recent years, Helen took her skills to public service serving the New York City Economic Development Corporation and Westchester County working closely with elected and appointed leaders on crisis management, strategic and executive communications, and thought leadership. Currently, she is the founder and chief storyteller at helen jonsen media, a boutique consulting firm, based in the Hudson Valley.
Helen is known as a public speaker on the craft of communication, strengthening advocacy, resiliency in the face of life’s challenges, life/work balance, leadership and the advancement of women. She has moderated and organized panels for leading conferences including Forbes Women’s Summits, Working Mother Best Companies and the Swedish-American Executive Women’s conferences in the US and Stockholm. She has been called upon to emcee events for nonprofit corporate/fundraising, and industry associations.
The most powerful gift we can give others is to lead to lead, instilling confidence in the possibilities of those around us.— Helen Jonsen
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