Sharon Turnoy

Sharon Turnoy

Writer | Speaker Coach | Executive Brand Builder

www.CommunicationMavens.com

For more than 25 years, Sharon Turnoy has advised C-level and marketing executives on how to refine their communications strategy to meet company objectives. Her content areas include technology, software, IT, finance, real estate, medicine, psychology, neuropsychology, diversity, and higher education.

Sharon is an accomplished ghostwriter. As one example, she ghostwrote and edited the book Sitting on a File Cabinet, Naked, With a Gun, containing 27 individual CEO assistants' stories of life behind the doors of the C-Suite. Almost ten years after its release, it is still ranked #49 in popularity out of all the admin training books on Amazon and within the 30,000 ranking out of all 8 million books on Amazon. In addition, it has been frequently used in UC Extension courses to train senior admins. Customer reviews rate it 5 or 4 stars, with 66% of customers rating it 5 stars for humor and entertainment value.

Sharon has ghostwritten speeches, personal book chapters, blog posts, and articles, and has a knack for picking up the voice of the client quickly.

Sharon’s expertise in managing, training, and hands-on performance include writing, ghostwriting, speech writing, copywriting, executive branding, technology translations for speeches and articles, speaker placement, and speaker coaching/media training. Sharon has trademarked a proprietary speaker coaching methodology tailored to the individual.

Throughout her career, Sharon has held leadership roles with technology companies and educational institutions, including U.C. Santa Cruz, Synopsys, Hewlett-Packard, Stanford University, Cisco, and Hitachi. In 2002 she started a part-time consulting business, Communication Mavens. She has now taken that business full-time and has delivered a wide variety of projects that have enriched her skills well beyond her prior full-time positions’ assignments.