Greater Voice Enterprises

Susan F. Benjamin - President

Susan F. Benjamin,   founder and president of Greater Voice Enterprises, is one of the nation's leading communications strategists. For 20 years, she has consulted on major initiatives for Liberty Mutual, Accenture, Fleishman-Hillard International, Boston Scientific, Ingersoll-Rand, John Hancock, Fleet Boston and hundreds of other organizations including radio stations, advertising agencies, and consulting practices.

A former associate professor of communications, she advised academics at Harvard University and MIT, taught communications-related subjects at Emerson College and Berklee College of Music, and trained over 100,000 corporate and Federal employees. She participated in a White House initiative on plain language under the Clinton/Gore administration, and has consulted for the Carnegie Mellon Executive Not-for-Profits Program, the FCC, the Department of Defense, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Personnel Management, and many others.

 Articles featuring Susan’s strategies and ideas have appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Home Office Computer,Success Magazine, and countless newspapers such as The Miami Herald and Chicago Tribune. Tom Peters lauds Susan’s approach to communications in his books and speeches and she has been quoted in The New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily, Men’s Health, New York Post and numerous other publications. She has discussed her ideas on CNN, National Public Radio, Small Business Television, and other broadcasts.

 Among Susan’s books are Flash Marketing (Adams Media, September 2010), Instant Marketing for Almost Free (Source Books, 2007), Quick andPainless Business Writing (Career Press, 2006), Perfect Phrases for Difficult People at Work (McGraw Hill, 2007), Perfect Phrases for Difficult Situations at Work, (McGraw Hill, 2008), Phrases for Networking (McGraw Hill, 2009), Project Management for Top Performers (Source Books, 2007), and The Manager’s Answer Book (Source Books, 2008).

 Susan’s research includes assessments of organizational communication processes and studies on how language affects reader-responsiveness. Articles about these findings have appeared in publications such as Scribes Legal Journal, Clarity, Government Executive, and Employment Management Today. 

 As host of “The Greater Voice” and “What’s the Buzz,” Susan’s diverse guests include Representative Charles Rangel, Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary, NPR host Moira Gunn, David Hilliard, co-founder of the Black Panthers, John Taylor, Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs as well as Harvard professors, industry leaders, and journalists.

 Susan studied philosophy and writing at Boston University and Bennington College. She received her graduate degree in Writing from Lesley College where she worked with C. Michael Curtis, Senior Editor of The Atlantic.

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Grace Freedson, Publications Advisor

A public relations and publishing expert, Grace Freedson started her career as the Director of Publicity for Stein and Day Publishers. For sixteen years, she served at Barron’s Publications as Publicity Manager, Acquisitions Manager, Managing Editor, and Director of Acquisitions. There she acquired all original titles in areas including test prep, business, cookbooks, health and fitness, career and guidance, and education.

In 2000, she launched the highly successful Grace Freedson’s Publishing Network. She serves the publishing community as a literary agent and a book packager, representing the interests of non-fiction writers through every step of the publishing process. Thanks to Grace’s negotiation skills and industry acumen, Graces’s authors have published highly successful books in the business and lifestyle categories including career, self-help; nature; and culinary arts; as well as select fiction and juvenile non-fiction. For all her clients, Grace negotiates and reviews contracts.
Grace also works with a broad spectrum of publishers in developing titles specific to their publishing program.

 

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David Wolf, Host and Online Media Relations Advisor

Since 1981, David Wolf has produced audio and music content for a diversified base of corporate and advertising clients such as Texaco, Embassy Suites, Miller Brewing, P&G, Southwest Airlines, Pepsi, Frito-Lay, McDonalds, P&G, Budget Rent A Car, Exxon-Mobile and many more.

As president of Crywolf Productions, Inc., a digital audio recording studio, David also produced and recorded audio content for NBC, Universal Studios, Amblin Entertainment, Hit Entertainment, TNT, The Discovery Channel, Walt Disney Television and many others.

David launched www.SmallbizAmerica.com, in 2004, an online streaming, radio and podcast media platform celebrating entrepreneurs and small business people worldwide. The site now includes hundreds of interviews with authors, speakers, thought leaders and top growth company CEOs. Segments are syndicated on AM talk radio in 50 markets coast to coast as well as Smallbiz America 24/7 Streaming Online Radio, SBTV-Small Business Television, Live 365.com Radio and iTunes.

Wolf heads up production, distribution and syndication of digital media for such channels as The Smallbiz America Network and SBTV.com’s Community, a new online web-social community for small business people. .

Wolf is a business enthusiast, film composer and musician, and a commercial and instrument rated pilot with 1000 hours of flight time.

 

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Jim Agnew, Producer

Jim Agnew has been booking and producing talk-radio shows since 1992. He was co-creator of American Crime Line with Ed Nowicki and booker for Ed Buggs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Geoffery Feiger in Detroit, Michigan. He operates his booking service out of Chicago, Illinois.

Jim has been profiled in the Chicago-Sun Times, The Chicago Reader and the Nick Tosches Reader (DaCapo). Jim considers his booking duties as an unheralded art form and his clients brilliant beyond belief.

Jim also is a world-class literary researcher whose clients have included Vincent Bugliosi, Dan Moldea, Bill Zehme, Gus Russo, Bill Kurtis, Jonathan VanMeter, the late Bill Roemer, Nick Pileggi and Nick Tosches. The late Pulitzer Prize award winning columnist Mike Royko referred to Agnew as "The finest researcher of crime in America".

 

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Ashley Jones, Media Relations Associate

Ashley Jones provides media outreach and PR assistance for Greater Voice Enterprises. With a background in business, Ashley has served as a customer service specialist at City Bank and studies business at Shepherd University.