Meet Ed Barks

As a communications strategy consultant and author, Ed Barks works with communications and government relations executives who counsel their C-suite leaders, and with businesses and associations that need their messaging to deliver bottom line results. As a result, they gain an enhanced reputation, greater confidence, more opportunities for career advancement, and achievement of long-term business goals.

His clients say he “knows how to elicit peak performance.” They call him “a master at connecting with his audience” and “an effective educator,” and give his communications training workshops “two thumbs up!”

Ed has served as President of Barks Communications since 1997. He has taught more than 5700 business leaders, association executives, government officials, physicians, athletes, entertainers, and communications staff how to work with the media, deliver great presentations, and present winning legislative and regulatory testimony.

He has authored four books:

• • • Insider Strategies for the Confident Communicator: How to Master Meetings, Presentations, Interviews, and Advocacy
    • Reporters Don’t Hate You: 100+ Amazing Media Relations Strategies
    • A+ Strategies for C-Suite Communications: Turning Today’s Leaders into Tomorrow’s Influencers
    • The Truth About Public Speaking: The Three Keys to Great Presentations

Ed also conducts research on today’s important communications issues and reports his findings. Those publications include Can We Talk Off the Record? Resolving Disagreements, Increasing Understanding Between Reporters and Public Relations Practitioners, The Lasting Effects of Media Training: Lifelong Learning or Temporary Phenomenon? and “A Buyer’s Guide to Communications Strategy Consultants.”

He is the former monthly “Speaking Sense” columnist for the Washington Business Journal, and a contributor to publications targeted toward today’s executives and professionals.

Ed served a nine-year tenure on the Board of Governors of the National Press Club and serves on the faculty of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Organization Management. He formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Institute of Management Consultants National Capital Region and as a member of the Consultants Section Council of the American Society of Association Executives’ (ASAE).

Ed earned his expertise in the Washington, D.C., communications arena, where he has directed efforts dealing with such critical areas as media training, media relations, public speaking, and Congressional testimony.

In addition, he logged over a decade as a radio broadcaster. That knowledge allows Ed to share the inside scoop on how reporters work, what they need, and when they need it.

Ed also created the C-suite Blueprint blog community, delivering bottom line results and enhanced reputations for communications and government relations executives who counsel their C-suite leaders.

Contact Ed at (703) 533-0403 or by e-mail.