Oratorio Media and Presentation Training (Oratorio):

www.oratorio.com and www.oratoriouniversity.com

Profile

Effective media communication and public speaking are learned skills and key elements of success in any initiative. Oratorio Media and Presentation Training is Washington’s leading communications training company, showing executives, politicians, government leaders and other officials how to perform successfully in news interviews, presentations and speeches. Led by former network television broadcast journalists, Oratorio helps leaders advance their agendas through targeted development and delivery of key messages to all important audiences.

Expertise

For twenty years, Oratorio has shown spokespeople around the world the techniques and discipline needed for success in any speaking situation. On-camera training sessions are conducted in Oratorio’s downtown DC television studio and at client locations worldwide. Oratorio’s video e-learning programs (collectively known as Oratorio University) are available on-line, on DVD, and for hosting on corporate Learning Management Systems. Oratorio will apply its communications and journalism expertise to help our team educate and influence your target audiences.

Susan Tomai

Looking at a row of monitors in the control room of “Good Morning America” one day in the late eighties, producer Susan Tomai had an epiphany. Too many CEO’s and politicians were squandering a priceless opportunity on national television – failing to get their key messages across in a way that would sell products, advance and agenda, or win votes.

So she started the media training and presentation training business that would become Oratorio, and has since built a reputation as one of the world’s leading communications training specialists, counseling hundreds of business executives and public figures for interviews, crisis situations, speeches, presentations, and encounters with financial analysts and investors.

Susan has won several Emmy awards for her television work, as well as public relations industry awards including two Silver Anvils, the IABC Gold Quill Award, and several PRSA Certificates of Excellence and Commendations. She holds degrees in speech and drama from Marymount University and in mass communications from Emerson College, as well as a Certificate in Organization Development from Georgetown University.

Bill Connor

Bill Connor hates to see executives and officials waste their time, and there’s no bigger waste of time, no greater missed opportunity, than a badly written, lackadaisically delivered presentation. So Bill specializes in helping high-level professionals crystallize their key messages and deliver them in clear and compelling ways, in news interviews, speeches and presentations.

Before joining Oratorio in 1997, Bill worked as a White House television correspondent and anchorman for twelve years. He has received numerous professional awards for his work, including an Associated Press citation for excellence in investigative reporting. He holds a B.A. in French from Vassar College and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.