"You have now created a whole speaker culture among the executive team.
They all looked at each other and mouthed one of your trademark phrases."

Sue Hoffman, Director of Communications,
IBM Global Healthcare

The Kennedy Group is a team of professionals with regional and global experience in strategic communications consulting, training, and coaching. Since 1992, we've built and maintained these credentials along with an entrepreneurial spirit, client focus, and responsiveness.

Our focus is on helping customers develop and perfect a full range of communication skills, including presentation skills, public speaking, media skills, and video/web conferencing.

Our staff includes business professionals, consultants, and instructors with global experience in large firms, offering the necessary skills for any communications project.

Tom Kennedy, Principal
Tom Kennedy is an Associated Press award-winning broadcaster, Certified Management Consultant (CMC) by the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) and teacher of strategic and crisis communication. He has over 20 years of on-air media experience in major markets across the US and over 15 years' strategic communications consulting experience with CEOs and senior executives of international companies such as IBM, Iron Mountain, Millipore, Roche, Bosch, Hewlett-Packard, MIT and others. Tom specializes in helping his clients successfully develop and deliver focused, effective, and memorable messages, internally and externally, including the effective use of the Web, print, and broadcast media.

Prior to forming The Kennedy Group in 1992, Tom had top-rated on-air TV and radio experience, as well as program management experience, in five major markets in all regions of the US (Boston, San Francisco, Detroit, Cincinnati, and Jacksonville). He thoroughly understands regional communications strategies within the United States and has a broad knowledge of worldwide strategic corporate communications and cross-cultural protocols.

Tom is and a regular speaker at the Harvard School of Public Health, to IMC and numerous other business groups, a member and former board member of The Society of Professional Consultants, a professional member of the National Speakers Association and a former adjunct professor in the Communications Studies Department at Emerson College.