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Joanna Massey
Board Director, Hollywood Executive & Communications Expert
Joanna Massey
Board Director, Hollywood Executive & Communications Expert
Biography
In today’s unrelenting, fast-paced corporate landscape, knowing your stress triggers, as well as those of the people around you, is the key to success. This is where Dr. Joanna Dodd Massey shines. She is a seasoned C-level communications executive and Board Director with 30 years of experience in the media industry at companies such as CBS, Viacom, Lionsgate, Discovery, Hasbro, and Condé Nast.
Dr. Massey is an expert on change who became fascinated with how people react to stress while working as a high-powered executive in Hollywood. She has managed crisis communications, brand reputation, culture transformation, corporate social responsibility, and multi-million-dollar P&Ls. She is also a keynote speaker and author of two books, Culture Shock: Surviving Five Generations in One Workplace and Communicating During a Crisis: Influencing Others When the Stakes Are High.
When it comes to high stress situations, she has experienced more than most, and while she has an innate high tolerance for change and has even been called the “Queen of Pivoting,” it wasn’t until she took a deeper dive into the psychology of how we handle stress that she found everyday strategies to manage her own stress triggers and ultimately help her teams do the same.
With graduate degrees in psychology and business, as well as 30 years of practical experience as an executive in Fortune 500 companies, Dr. Massey brings unparalleled insights to her talks. She inspires audiences to embrace differences of opinion, master their defensive reactions, and have challenging conversations in a productive way, which she does by weaving in entertaining stories from her career in Hollywood.
Speaker Videos
Brain Rules
Taming Your Triggers Meriwest Credit Union Presentation Dr. Joanna Massey
Society and Businesses Thrive on Differences
Honor Yourself
Culture Shock at NACD NJ Event Dr. Joanna Massey
Honing Your Personal Brand webinar Presentation
Speech Topics
The Art of Disagreeing with Tact & Impact
AI has had 30 years to segregate and divided us, and we have lost the art of disagreeing productively. This inspirational talk empowers audiences to shed the my-way-or-the-highway grandstanding in business, politics, and at the kitchen table, and embrace a way of communicating that drives respectful discourse amongst colleagues, customers and communities. Audiences leave feeling hopeful that they can be part of the solution that moves business and society forward.
Communicating During a Crisis: Be Heard and Influence Others
Given the 24/7 nature of high-powered companies, office workers are often in “crisis mode.” That makes it markedly harder to communicate with people in an effective way. Dr. Massey starts this session by talking about the brain science behind our reactions to everyday stress and then provides helpful tools for communicating with and influencing others.
Culture Shock: Navigating 5 Generations in the Office
We have a lot of miscommunications and misunderstandings in the office now that we have workers as young as 20 and as old as 80. This talk solves that problem by giving attendees an inside look at how people from different generations view the world and why and then provides solutions for navigating these differences. This session is great for understanding your co-workers, but it also gets high marks for helping people understand their kids.
Honing Your Digital Presence & Personal Brand
Online meetings are the norm and executive presence is still needed, which makes this highly informative workshop a must for employees at all levels who want to have gravitas and influence in the hybrid workplace.
Career Pivoting: Transitioning Gracefully When the Unexpected Happens
Whether you are choosing to make a change or change is thrust upon you, making a successful career pivot can be a stressful and frightening transition. This is especially true today when climbing the corporate ladder looks more like climbing around a jungle gym. In this session, Dr. Massey offers her experience with effective ways to reinvent yourself multiple times in your career.
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