Communications Leadership
Hyde
Park helps executives and politicians rise above the
noise with effective communications to customers, voters,
shareholders,
industry analysts, securities analysts, business partners,
employees, and investors. Hyde Park’s principals
have over 25 years experience in executive and corporate
communications,
supporting senior executives at leading companies like
Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, and
Robert Half Associates.
Partners
Joel
R. Postman is a Director of Executive
Communications at Hewlett-Packard, where he manages
a team of speechwriters supporting senior executives
responsible
for the company’s enterprise and commercial
business, representing approximately $40B in
annual revenue and 80,000
employees.
Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard, he served for four years
as senior speechwriter to Scott McNealy, chairman
and CEO of Sun Microsystems. He has over 20 years communications
experience, and a BA degree in Journalism from Humboldt
State
University.
His experience also includes print and
broadcast news, and teaching Journalism
at the university
level.
He believes that every speech must tell a story,
and to be effective, that story must be crafted using
a disciplined,
evidence-based
approach. He feels that executive communications
should always be tied closely to the organization’s
objectives, and that the effectiveness
of every business communications medium should
be measured and constantly improved.
Dr.
Laura E. Roman is a Lecturer at Stanford University.
Prior to taking her position at Stanford she held posts at
Oxford University (where she completed her Ph.D.,) Sorbonne-Nouvelle
and the American University of Paris. Her academic research
includes work on music and language, cinema and the rhetoric
of sound. She is widely published in academic journals, literary
newspapers and also works as a film consultant.
Her background
in Communications focuses on bringing classical Rhetoric
to the modern world She coaches clients to master the power
of oratory to become more persuasive and understandable.
She achieves this by developing with them a number of speaking
strategies to harness the power of language and nuances
of sound by varying tone in the human voice.
She works
with
clients to create authenticity in their communication.
Words, the incarnations of ideas, and the skill and tone
of their
delivery can inspire people into action. She has extensive
experience as a speech writer and works with clients
to define a personal speaking style, teaching them how
to
create effective
arguments in both written and spoken form.
Why
Did We Call it Hyde Park?
The
company gets its name from London’s Hyde
Park and its “Speaker’s Corner," where
dozens of speakers can be seen atop wooden
crates and step ladders speaking enthusiastically
on political,
economic,
religious and social topics. They speak
to anyone who will listen, and sometimes,
to no one at all. The
style of delivery varies, from that
of the
intellectual to that of the madman, but each
speaker has the
same goal: to
be louder and more interesting than
everyone else.
This can also be seen as a compelling metaphor for the
task executives and politicians face today in the marketplace
of ideas:
delivering
a message that will rise above the noise.
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