Nanette DeWester brings 12 years of experience coaching Media, Presentation, and Influencing skills. She has prepared dozens of high profile clients for national television and radio appearances such as: “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America,” “The Daily Show,” and “Charlie Rose.”
Her clients include Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, real estate entrepreneur Barbara Corcoran, Curves CEO Gary Heavin, New York Times Economist Paul Krugman, and #1 bestselling author Sue Monk Kid. Additionally, She has also worked with leading communications skills consultancies both as trainer and as course developer.
Her clients range from Fortune 500 Senior Executives to non-profit support staff in companies such as Amgen, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Barclays Capital, Bank of America, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, RBC Capital Markets, Campbells, Pearson Education, and UNICEF. Nanette’s training strategy is to focus on an engaging style of communication that emphasizes the speakers’ connection to their topic. This enables her clients to consistently deliver convincing messages that are heard.
Of special interest to Nanette is her current work with Storytelling and Leadership, and, how a skillfully told narrative creates a compelling reason to believe both the message and the mission.
Nanette began training after a career as a professional actor performing on stage and television, and as an improviser with such companies as Second City. She then worked with Mt. Sinai’s Morchand Center teaching communication skills to physicians and medical students. Afterward, she developed a unique training approach that’s well suited for all “improvised” public speaking formats. She continues her work in improv and creativity with her corporate clients by specializing in coursework that fosters innovative thinking and the use of creativity for developing new products, ideas, and solutions.
