ABOUT YOUR CONSULTANT

Gerry Hynes

                                                                             

Geraldine E. Hynes, Ph.D., is an award-winning, internationally experienced professional communication specialist.  She offers consulting, coaching, and customized training services. 

 

 

Areas of Expertise

  • Presentation skills
  • Business writing
  • Technical writing
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Management communication

 
  • Organizational communication
  • Meeting facilitation
  • Program development
  • Customer relations management

 

 

Representative Clients

Government and Not-for-Profit Organizations

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, U.S. Department of Defense,  U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Missouri Air National Guard, Missouri Department of Corrections, St. Louis County Family Court,  St. Louis Science Center,  Minority Business Council of St. Louis, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis University Medical School – Allied Health, SSM Health Care, the City of Florissant, the City of Bellefontaine Neighbors, the City of St. Peters, Parents as Teachers, The Danforth Foundation.

 

Business and Industry

Applied Biosystems, Incyte Genomics, Monsanto, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Electronics and Space Corporation, Golden Dipt Division of Kerry Ingredients, Sachs Electric, Worldwide Insurance Group, Tripos Associates Inc., Medtronic Bio-Medicus,  Dynaquip Controls, Meridian Medical Technologies, Sverdrup Corporation, the May Department Stores Company, Cannon Architects, Hastings & Chivetta Architects, Inc.

 

 

Academic Affiliation

Associate Professor of Business Communication, College of Business Administration, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.   Dr. Hynes teaches business writing and presentation skills on both the undergraduate and graduate levels.  She is experienced in distance education, and has taught a graduate managerial communication course online since 1998 for the University of Missouri-St. Louis.  She also teaches in the Executive MBA-Online program for members of banking and financial institutions through SHSU.

 

 

Education

  • B.A. in the Teaching of English and Speech from the University of Illinois-Chicago
  • M.A. in Speech Communication from the University of Illinois-Urbana
  • Ph.D. in Adult Education from St. Louis University

Current Research Interests

§         The role of communication in corporate culture change

§         Improving the understandability of bank annual reports

§         Traits that campus recruiters value in business students

  • Learning in an online and on-campus Managerial Communication course

 

 

Books

  • Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications, 3d edition.  McGraw-Hill, 2004.

§         Surfing for Success in Business Communications, a Guide to the Internet. Prentice Hall, 1998.

§         Contemporary Business Communication, 2d edition, by Louis E. Boone and David L. Kurtz, Test Item File.  Prentice Hall, 1997.

§         Communication Briefings, a video series, Instructor’s Guide.  Prentice Hall, 1996.

§         Contemporary Business Communication, 1/e, by Louis E. Boone, David L. Kurtz, and Judy R. Block, Annotated Instructor's Edition.  Prentice Hall, 1994.

 

 

Professional Memberships and Activities

  • Association of Professional Communication Consultants

Board of Directors, Publications Board Chair

  • Association for Business Communication

Business Practices Committee, MBA Committee, Teaching Committee, Program Chair             for the 2006 International Convention

  • Society for Technical Communication
  • American Business Women’s Association

Education Committee

 

 

 

You cannot NOT communicate.

But you CAN change how effectively you do it.

 

 

Contact:

 

Geraldine E. Hynes, Ph.D.

                                         75 Neiderhoffer Subd. Rd, Huntsville, TX 77340

                                                                (H) 979.219.2553 

(O) 936.294.4149

(F) 936.294.3074

                                                               (E) hynes@shsu.edu