About Roger D'Aprix:

Roger's long list of clients includes such organizations as Sears, Comcast, Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, General Motors, Saturn Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, EDS, GE Capital Services and scores of others. He is generally regarded as one of the leading-edge thinkers in the formulation of communication strategy and practice for contemporary organizations.

In 1978 the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) honored him as one of the youngest IABC Fellows ever named. That is the highest honor IABC gives. In 1998 that same organization named him as one of the most influential thinkers in the communication profession in the last 25 years.

For 15 years he held senior positions with two of the leading human resources consulting companies. He served as vice president and global practice leader for Towers Perrin's human resource communication practice and as principal and service developer for Mercer Human Resource Consulting. Before that, he was manager of employee communication for Xerox Corporation and held executive communication positions at General Electric and Bell and Howell.

Presently, he is managing director of his own consultancy in Rochester, New York. He has written six books on employee communication, the latest of which is his best-selling Communicating for Change: Connecting the Workplace with the Marketplace. He has also authored training modules published by IABC on face-to-face communication and communication practice in the 21st-century organization. He writes a monthly column for the Ragan Report on employee communication and is also a regular contributor to the Journal of Employee Communication Management, another Ragan publication.

He is a member of the advisory board of the UK publication Strategic Communication Management and serves on the board of ROI Communications, a Silicon Valley consulting organization that specializes in change management and communication.

Roger is a favorite choice of conference leaders looking for speakers and workshop leaders likely to draw a crowd.

About Lawrence Ragan Communications:

source: company web site

For more than three decades, Lawrence Ragan Communications, Inc. has been the leading publisher of corporate communications, public relations, and leadership development newsletters. Ever since the launch of The Ragan Report in 1970, Ragan has provided the professional communicator and executives with timely, practical, and relevant information that few others can match. The Ragan brand now includes over 16 targeted newsletters in the areas of employee communication, Web PR, organizational writing and editing, sales and marketing, media relations, motivational management, and investor relations. In addition to their newsletter division, Ragan produces several communications conferences, workshops, and senior-level forums throughout the United States. Attracting more than 3,000 professionals annually, conference attendees gain immediate access to the leading communicators in the field, their best practices, and rich networking opportunities with their peers.

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