Media Training

You’ll find all the same equipment, professionals and set-up that you would find in any network studio. In fact, here at Beyond Pix, we provide daily service for CNBC, CNN, The Today Show, ESPN, G4 and CBS. In our fully staffed working studios, our world renowned media trainers will teach executives and spokespeople that media readiness is more than just charisma; it’s an art.  We invite you to master this art through the Beyond Pix Media Education and Training programs.

Services

We dramatically reduce the risk of a poor interview through our customized media training. Our sessions are structured to work for you.  We offer:

• One-on-one coaching
• Small group workshops

We offer more than constructive criticism and a state of the art studio facility. We also work with our clients to:

• Formulate appropriate responses that satisfy reporters
• Create messaging that is meaningful to the end audience
• Build the spokesperson’s confidence
• Advance your organization’s public relations goals.

Facility

If you have been interviewed by a cable or network news show, the chances are that you have already been to our studios. We provide daily service for CNBC, CNN, Today Show, ESPN, G4 & CBS.

Our media education center provides a comfortable training area with white boards, flat screen TVs to review your on camera training and real TV studios where you will practice your interview and experience what a true broadcast interview feels like. Our trusted media trainers will prepare you for any interview situation whether it’s television, online, radio or print.

Peter Shaplen

Peter Shaplen is a nationally renowned, award-winning journalist and successful business executive whose work has transcended from traditional to cutting edge media.

In a career spanning almost 40 years, he has produced and reported stories airing on network news & cable stations, on corporate websites & boardrooms, even the Broadway stage.

Binay Curtis

Binay Curtis has two decades of experience as a media coach working with celebrities, CEOs, company spokespeople and financial analysts from Bank of America Securities, Bills.com, Hofstra University Law School, InterWest Partners, OpenTable.com, The Picture People, San Francisco Magazine, SF/SPCA and Yahoo! She has successfully assisted clients in getting quoted and covered in Business Week, CNN, Fortune, Forbes, Newsweek, New York Times, Today Show, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, as well as numerous local television stations across the country.

Dia Bondi

Dia has worked with ease at every level in Fortune 500 companies. She's coached CEO's, Sr. Politicians, as well as Associate Brand Managers. No matter what the assignment, she is superb at cutting through the clutter to get to the core of the story and the storyteller.

Dia doesn't do compromise. She's comfortable with saying what needs to be said, doing what needs to be done, while demanding the best from herself and everyone around her. Dia lives leadership.  When you work with her, the leader in you will be asked to come out and play. And play it will. You will laugh as hard as you stretch.

Crystal Nickerson

In the year 2000, Crystal followed her passion for media training and began her career as a teleprompter coach/event operator. Since then, she has learned from and coached many successful entrepreneurs, C-level leaders, government officials, politicians, actors and entertainers. From the Romney Presidential announcement, Tsongus for Congress and Scott Brown for Senate, to Bank of America, NFL Films, Microsoft, Visa, Ernst & Young and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Crystal grew up in the Boston area and has worked with clients nationally for over a decade. In June 2011, she moved to San Francisco and continues to focus on creating a positive, comfortable environment while working with the client to deliver their message effectively.

Manny Ramos

Manny Ramos has more than 30 years of on-camera experience and now teaches the trade. Manny is a six-time Emmy Award winner. He has been a reporter, anchor, interview show host and served as moderator for televised town hall meetings. He has appeared on the national CBS Morning Show as a guest as well as a contributor. So Manny has been on both sides of the camera for satellite interviews. Manny now works with corporate executives who want to improve their voice and on-camera delivery for TV or webcast appearances. He is also an instructor of on-camera technique for Masters students in the Multi- Media Communications Department of the Academy of Art University

Patty Chang & Robbi Peele

Robbi Peele is an Emmy award winning communications professional. Her 25 year career as a TV producer at both the local and national levels, including a specialty in investigative journalism, equips her with a unique arsenal of skills to meet all your communication needs.

Patty Chang has never been one to be pigeon holed. As a three time national Emmy Award winning journalist for Dateline-NBC, Patty’s stories have also premiered on NBC’s Nightly News, The Today Show, MSNBC, PBS, The Discovery Channel and National Geographic just to name a few. 

Working as a team, these trainers provide an immersive experience.

Mike Hegedus

Mike Hegedus is in his fourth decade of broadcasting. He is a nationally known correspondent who has worked with over 3,000 U.S. and internationally-based companies during his 17-year tenure at NBC. He has interviewed and worked with the leaders of numerous Fortune 100 companies and is currently employed by many of them as a consultant.

While known throughout his career as one of the preeminent storytellers in television, Hegedus has also covered his share of revolutions and heart thumping sporting events. Being 'under fire' is nothing new for Mike and his ability to bring that same calm, cool, and collected approach to dealing with all forms of media is what makes him so sought after.

Melissa Monson

Melissa specializes in helping executive management and professionals excel at creating and delivering an effective message to the media, investors, customers and the financial community. She has coached management teams in over 3+ billion in equity offerings. Her client base is international stretching from New York to Hong Kong. Clients describe her as wise, insightful and brutally honest. She starts with an individual’s delivery style and coaches to enhance it. She is praised for her ability to listen and then turn a client’s ideas into a clear, creative message to motivate, inspire, contain a crisis or get the order! Through On-Camera Media Skills Training, Melissa prepares clients to master interview situations, whether sit-down or spontaneous. Melissa believes that today, with the rapid proliferation of “citizen journalism” and social media sites, on camera mistakes are seen and heard by millions – instantly, repeatedly and permanently – with practically no chance of a do-over. Today senior executives are likely to face a camera in a hostile situation at some time during their career. Melissa coaches for that event to assure there are no missteps. Melissa received her MA from Columbia University in NY She is a writer of a weekly blog. www.notesintoimages.com

Tom Sinkovitz

Tom Sinkovitz has been a professional broadcaster for more than four decades. His career began as a U-S Marine in 1969, where he was assigned to the Saigon newsroom featured in the Robin Williams’ movie “Good Morning Vietnam.” He has worked as a reporter and anchor at television stations in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Cincinnati, Baltimore, and Atlanta; all before working in those capacities with KRON-TV and KNTV-TV in San Francisco, San Jose, and Silicon Valley from January, 1990 until 2011. He has covered many significant stories during his career. Among them; Three Mile Island, Hurricanes Agnes and Hugo, the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion (for which his work was recognized with an Emmy award), the Oakland Hills Firestorm, the Los Angeles Riots, the San Bruno pipeline explosion, Superbowl 16, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the San Francisco Giants’ first world series championship. He also reported live from the Nashville campaign headquarters of then Vice President Al Gore on the infamous election night of November, 2000; and he covered the historic Democratic National Convention in Denver in 2008 during which Barack Obama accepted his party’s nomination for the presidency. Among his numerous awards are three Emmys, a Peninsula Press Club award honoring his “Return to Vietnam” series in 1999, several commendations from the Associated Press and a New York Film Festival award for news writing.

David Landis

With 30 years experience in public relations, brand management, positioning, marketing, analyst relations, media training, crisis communications, public affairs and community relations, David Landis has lent his expertise to a variety of national and Bay Area-based corporations. 

In 2007, Mr. Landis joined the faculty of Golden Gate University, teaching public relations in a master's degree program for marketing majors.  A recipient of numerous awards, Mr. Landis is a published writer and has been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences, as well as a guest lecturer at Stanford University, the University of California-Berkeley, University of San Francisco and Golden Gate University.

Bill Schechner

Bill’s skills are teachable. He can help you connect with your audience. He can show you ways to present yourself as authoritative and affable. He can make it possible for you to be in command of your on-camera style. He can help you make smart choices when you open your mouth.

Bill was co-anchor (with Linda Ellerbee) on NBC News Overnight, a ground-breaking network show famed both for strong content and dry wit. He has been a National Correspondent for NBC Network News, reporting across America. He has been a reporter/anchor at CBS5, San Francisco, and before that, at KQED (PBS-San Francisco). Bill has also done radio reporting, and newspaper work.