Eric Bergman, ABC, APR, MC
Eric Bergman is passionate about helping his clients communicate effectively.
 He has been a public relations practitioner for more than 25 years and has provided presentation skills and media training to clients in North America, South America, Europe and Asia for nearly 20 years.
His workshops, seminars and one-on-one coaching have improved the communication skills of thousands of professionals, managers, salespeople, politicians and senior executives.
In 2004, Eric was approached by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), a professional association representing 16,000 communicators and public relations practitioners worldwide, to develop a train-the-trainer guide for media training. In 2006, Media Training With Excellence: A Balanced Approach was published. The guide has gone on to be an IABC best seller, making him the person who has literally "written the book" on modern media training.
Eric holds a bachelor of professional arts in communication studies from Athabasca University and a two-year diploma in advertising & public relations from Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is an accredited business communicator, an accredited public relations practitioner and a master communicator. He also holds a fifth-degree black belt in Wado-Kai karate.
Barbara Puffer, MA, ABC
 For more than 35 years, Barbara Puffer, MA, ABC, has been helping organizations tell their story effectively. She has worked with the corporate and not-for-profit sectors, and earned more than 100 awards and accolades for her work. She has direct experience as an elected official, and she continues to teach undergraduate students. "This is an excellent opportunity to use my experience to widen and deepen the services I provide to my clients," she says.
Located in Connecticut, Barbara works with clients to design media training that best blends in-person exercises with the online program available at AtEaseWithTheMedia.com. In theory, Barbara can design a different package for each client.
"Because the program uses online training as its base, the lesson plan is adaptable," Barbara explains. "Not only can I fit it to the client's needs, it enables me to apply 35 years of insight. The result is a complete package that provides sound advice to clients."
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