Michael B. Goodman

Michael B. Goodman, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of the MA in Corporate Communication at Baruch College, The City University of New York.  He is the founder and director of CCI Corporate Communication International www.corporatecomm.org, and Adjunct Professor of Corporate Communication atFairleighDickinsonUniversity, where he was professor and director of the Graduate Programs in Corporate and Organizational Communication.  He is Visiting Professor of Corporate Communication at Aarhus School of Business (Denmark),BangkokUniversity, andHong KongPolytechnicUniversity.  He directed the graduate and undergraduate business communication programs atNortheasternUniversity inBoston, and he has taught business communication courses at New York University, New York Institute of Technology,University ofAlaska Fairbanks, and SUNY at Stony Brook.  He is the founder and director of the annual Conference on Corporate Communication.

He has published widely, including: Corporate Communication: Strategic Adaptation for Global Practice with Peter B. Hirsch,  Corporate Communication: Tactical Guidelines for Strategic Practice with Peter B. Hirsch, Corporate Communication for Executives; Work with Anyone Anywhere: A Guide to Global Business, Working in a Global Environment: Understanding, Communicating, and Managing Transnationally; Corporate Communication: Theory and Practice; Write to the Point: Effective Communication in the Workplace; “Corporate Communication” in Wiley Encyclopedia of EE; a section on consulting in the Handbook of Executive Communication; “Today’s Corporate Communication Function” in Handbook of Corporate Communication and Public Relations.  He has edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Business Strategy on “The Role of Business in Public Diplomacy.”  He is on the Editorial Advisory Board and Associate Editor for North America of Corporate Communication (UK) and for ten years was Associate Editor for Corporate and Organizational Communication of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.  He has presented numerous scholarly papers at international conferences.

He is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society; a Fellow of the RSA (The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce),London; a Fellow of The Society for Technical Communication.  He is VP Eastern Region and Member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Business Communication; as well as International Member of the Academic Board of the Center for International Business Chinese Education at theUniversityofInternational Businessand Economics (Beijing).  He is a member of the PR Coalition, a partnership of 20 major organizations representing corporate public relations, investor relations, public affairs, and related communication disciplines.

He has been a consultant to more than 40 corporations and institutions on corporate communication, managerial communication, problem-solving, new business proposals, change, and corporate culture.

Goodman received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and his BA from theUniversityofTexasatAustin.