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helen jonsen media brings best-in-class communications tools and strategy to leaders and advocates on a mission to do good. Nonprofits, social entrepreneurs, authors and other professionals in service to others benefit from speaker training and coaching​, advice, planning and ​content execution​.

about helen jonsen
Helen’s kaleidoscope career offers decades of experience as a recognized journalist, media coach, speaker, media relations pro, writer and executive producer working with media networks, nonprofits, government and corporations.

She has been an entrepreneur and executive at the confluence of digital media and business disruption, and a strategic business and editorial advisor for publishers, startups, and companies helping create strong multi-platform content ecosystems–digital, video, mobile, text and social.

Storytelling is in Helen’s DNA and at the heart of everything she creates. She built a career as a journalist in newspapers, magazines, radio and online including working for local, national and international television news divisions.

In recent years, Helen took her skills to public service communications serving the City of New York and Westchester County.

Helen is known as a public speaker on the craft of communication, advocacy, resiliency in the face of life’s challenges, diversity and inclusion, life-work balance, leadership and the advancement of women. She has moderated and organized panels for leading conferences including Forbes Women’s Summits, Working Mother Best Companies and the Swedish-American Executive Women’s conferences in the US and Stockholm. She has been called upon to emcee events for nonprofit corporate/fundraising, and industry associations.