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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 from newsrooms to corporate boardrooms, from startups to established publishers, from nonprofits to government agencies.

She has been an entrepreneur and executive at the confluence of digital media and business disruption. As a multi-platform journalist, media coach and media relations pro, writer and trainer, Helen has been a strategic business and editorial advisor to executives and entrepreneurs, media networks, nonprofits, government agencies and corporations.

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, strengthening advocacy, resiliency in the face of life’s challenges, 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. Helen has been called upon to emcee events for nonprofit corporate/fundraising, and industry associations.