Ethan F. Becker

Becker graduated from Fitchburg State University in 1993[1] from a degree in mass communication,[2] before beginning a career in marketing.[1] While working as the marketing director at Media 100,[3] he created a prototype video streaming service in the late-1990s during a partnership with Canon, a service that was sold to Autodesk.[2]

Following a job loss during the 2001 economic downturn,[3] he joined his mother and father’s company the Speech Improvement Company,[4] while completing his MBA from Capella University.[1] Becker increased the company’s clients base, adding corporations, politicians, and other leaders as clients.[3][2] As a communications consultant he has worked for organizations including Apple Computer and the New York Giants.[1]

Becker is now president and senior coaching partner of the Speech Improvement Company.[2] In addition to speech coaching, he has co-developed a virtual reality component of the company that has clients do public speaking before a virtual audience for practice.[5] In the media, he has also discussed the rise of social media and the importance of monitoring what one’s online image communicates to others.[6] Becker has served as an instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Executive Education program.[7]

Becker is the coauthor of Mastering Communication at Work: How to Lead, Manage and Influence with Jon Wortmann,[8][9] in which he shares advice for people in the business world. Jason Jacobsohn wrote of the book that, "By sprinkling case studies throughout the book, the reader has a real world understanding of the impact of a particular technique."[9] His advice includes the development of a common understanding of what different people in a company mean by main concepts,[10] and ensuring common cross-cultural understandings.[11]

Ethan Becker was born to Dennis and Paula Borkum Becker, the founders of the Speech Improvement Company, and is married to his wife Kelly Durkin Becker.[2] He and his wife have three children.[12]

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