Resume

• 2012

  Cengage Learning

  LearningLeaders

  Cengage Learning

  O'Donnell and Associates

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  Communication and messaging strategy work for a range of high impact national and international clients in politics and industry.

  Associate Consultant

  Shanghai

  PRC

  I work with the dynamic team at LearningLeaders to deliver world-class training in communication

  working across the lifespan from secondary education to advanced business consulting.

  Workshop Facilitator

  LearningLeaders

• 2002

  Northwestern University Debate Society

  Results include:\n\n- Two National Debate Tournament Championships\n\n- Three Copeland Awards for the top ranked pre-bid to the National Debate Tournament\n\n- Six appearances in the \"final four\" at the National Debate Tournament

  Northwestern University Debate Society

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Chapel Hill

  NC

  Professor of rhetoric and communication researcher.\n\nAuthor of four books and numerous articles on the theory and practice of persuasion. Areas of research include rhetoric

  communication

  debate

  public culture

  and cultural studies.\n\nSubject matter expert on strategic communication

  messaging and public speaking.\n\nAlso an adjunct professor in Religious Studies and a Fellow in the Parr Center for Ethics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

  Associate Professor

  Lundberg Communication Strategies

  Harvard Debate Council

  Cambridge

  MA

  Responsibilities include research

  consulting

  and assistant coaching for the Harvard debate team.

  Coach and Consultant

  Chapel Hill

  NC

  I am the director and a founding principal of Vocable Communications

  a consulting firm specializing in speech and presentation. Vocable delivers expert advice by experienced consultants employing a data-driven approach to communication coaching across a range of spaces.\n\nVocable's practice areas include corporate communication

  investment and fund management

  start-ups/entrepreneurs

  and non-profit consulting.\n\nOur services include: executive coaching

  strategic messaging

  communication assessment and training

  and Vocable Public Speaking Seminars.

  Director and Consulting Principal

  Vocable Communications

  PhD

  Communication

  Northwestern Debate Society

  Rhetoric and Public Culture Program

• 1997

  MDiv

  Theology

  Barkley Forum Debate Society

• 1993

  Summer Debate Institutes

  BTS

  O'Donnell and Associates

  Lundberg Communication Strategies

  Harvard Debate Council

  Instructional responsibilities include training high-school and college students in argument construction

  messaging

  strategy and delivery:\n\n- Invited Special Guest Lecturer

  Northwestern University Debate Institute

  Zarefsky Scholars Senior Group (Summers 2009-2013)\n\n- Head Lab Leader

  Championship Debate Group

  Northwestern University Debate Institute

  Zarefsky Scholars Senior Group (Summers 2003-2004

  2006-2008)\n\n- Co-Head Lab Leader

  Miami University Redhawk Debate Institute

  Top Senior Lab (Summer 2005)\n\n- Founding Lab Leader

  Liberty University Elite Performance Group (Summer 2002)\n\n- Co-Head Lab Leader

  Catholic University Debate institute

  Top Senior Lab (Summer 2002)\n\n- Co-Head Lab Leader

  Michigan Classic

  Juniors Lab (Summer 2001)\n\n- Head Lab Leader

  Kentucky Fellows

  University of Kentucky Debate Institute (Summer 2001)\n\n- Co-Head Lab Leader

  Dartmouth Debate Institute

  Juniors Lab (Summers 1998

  2000)\n\n- Lab Leader

  Emory University Debate Institute

  Sophomore and Juniors Labs (Summers 1998-2000)\n\n- Head Lab Leader

  Sun Country Forensics Institute

  College of Eastern Utah (Summers 1993-1997)\n\n- Lab Leader

  American University Debate Institute (Summer 1995)

  Summer Debate Institutes

  Subject Matter Expert in Communication

  I work with BTS to conceive

  implement

  and deliver communication assessment and training products for upper level management at some of the world's best companies.

  BTS

  Rhetoric Society of America

  National Communication Association

  Rhetoric Society of America

  J. Carlyle Sitterson Award

  The J. Carlyle Sitterson Award is a university level award for excellence in teaching first year students.\n\nhttp://provost.unc.edu/teaching-awards/j-carlyle-sitterson-freshman-teaching-award/

  UNC Chapel Hill

  Charles Kneupper Award

  This is the award for article of the year in Rhetoric Society Quarterly. I was a co recipient with Joshua Gunn and Cheryl Geisler.\n\nhttp://associationdatabase.com/aws/RSA/pt/sp/awards_kneupper

• 1992

  Bachelor of Arts

  Government

  Debate

  University of Redlands

  UNC Academic Leaders Program

  Leadership Program

  the Center for Creative Leadership

• 1989

  Brighton High School

• Leadership Development

  Coaching

  Higher Education

  Theory

  Curriculum Development

  Teaching

  Nonprofits

  Debate

  Messaging

  Curriculum Design

  Staff Development

  Framing

  Strategic Communications

  Policy Analysis

  Community Outreach

  Strategy

  Qualitative Research

  Research

  Public Speaking

  University Teaching

  Public Speaking: Choices and Responsibility

  William Keith

  This is our mass market

  college level public speaking book. First edition 2012

  Second Edition 2016.

  Public Speaking: Choices and Responsibility

  This is an early version of our forthcoming public speaking book

  which will be published by Cengage in 2013\n\n(ISBN 10: 1133271499 / ISBN 13: 9781133271499 )

  Public Speaking: Choosing Engagement

  A book that advances a new theory of public persuasion based on insights in psychoanalysis

  linguistics

  and cognitive science.

  Lacan in Public: Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric

  William Keith

  A compact and user friendly guide to the principles of persuasion

  The Essential Guide to Rhetoric

  Christian

  Lundberg

  Vocable Communications

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill