Schatzie Brunner spent nearly a decade at CNN in Atlanta, Georgia. In that fast-paced, communication-intensive environment, she produced programming, dealt with sensitive celebrity talent, and wrote and anchored the news.

As Associate Producer of a live daily two-hour news and commentary show, her intuitive communication skills were honed and refined. They were put to the ultimate test when she partnered with Turner Executive Vice President Gail Evans to create the Booking Department for CNN. Among other assignments, Schatzie became the Talent Coordinator for Larry King Live and the entire network. In this role, she dealt on an hourly basis with the subtle and important communication issues revolving around daily celebrity interviews, touching on logistics, human sensibilities and egos.

Schatzie was known as Barbara Brunner on the air writing and anchoring the daily CNN news, interview and commentary show NEWSNIGHT. In addition to her work at CNN, she performed freelance assignments on-camera and voice-overs for Bellsouth, ACOG (the 1996 Olympics), Texaco, IBM, Coca Cola, and Kimberly Clark among others. Along the way, she discovered that she was using her own “system” to analyze and structure all of her communication activities. And she was achieving great success.

She moved into the world of business communication as a communication and media consultant for an Atlanta corporate training enterprise. Subsequently, she formed her own company to focus entirely on bringing her system to the broadest possible audience in American business. Schatzie offers communication workshops and personal executive coaching services to all levels of management. Her philosophy is grounded in the belief that corporate America can use the same techniques used in broadcast journalism in order to maximize buy-in.

Having presentation skills is not limited to being able to present with poise after practicing for weeks. Schatzie teaches her clients how to present themselves each and every day using written and spoken communication skills. Knowing how to effectively use your appearance, your voice, your facial energy, and your body language as well as knowing how to craft a message that is memorable are just some of the skills her clients take away from their work with her.



                    Please email me at: schatzie@schatziebrunner.com or call me at 615-530-2048.