Martin D. Hirsch
Martin Hirsch started building his own communications consulting practice in 2017 after a career spanning almost 35 years with one of the world’s leading international healthcare groups. He’s led internal and external corporate communications, brand and reputation management, and crisis and issue management. Working in both the United States and Europe, he has advised multiple CEOs and collaborated with colleagues all over the world. Martin’s strengths include executive consulting, strategic message development, content marketing, storytelling, communications training, public speaking, mentoring talent, and inspiring organizations to advance beyond their limitations.Lately he’s been helping clients by writing keynote speeches for top executives, developing strategies for pitching new business and explaining complex issues, ranging from how to apply new digital health tools in the pharmaceuticals industry to making sense of the rapid and complex changes challenging employees to maintain their equilibrium at major corporations. Martin also works as a faculty adviser at the New York University School of Professional Studies, helping graduate students with their Capstone Papers. His speaking engagements have included presentations at the IABC World Conference, the European Association of Communications Directors Summit, the Corporate Communications International Leaders Forum, the European Commission Communications Directorate and the Rotterdam School of Business Reputation Forum Netherlands. More recently, he was a panelist at the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association conference on expat issues held at Pfizer headquarters in New York. Martin’s writing, including essays, letters and poems, has appeared in newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and Europe. You can read his blog on MUSE-WORTHY, here on BIZCATALYST 360°. He received the American Association of Journalists and Authors 2018 Writing Award for Best Personal Story Blog.
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Will I Ever Find My Way Back to the Road Not Taken? Will you?
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Springsteen’s Reflections on Life Mirror My Own
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Confessions of an Imprudent Prankster
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A Tribute to Frau Wackernagel
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A Pandemic Vacation of Memento-Hopping Across the World
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When “Queer” Was a Slur: My Early Brush With Transgender Identity
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How Do You Make Sense of a Voice That Speaks to You from an Afterlife You Don’t Believe In?
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Pathogens in the Air, Protesters in the Street, Prospects for Change Within and Without
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One Step Forward, Six Steps Back: Is There Any Hope of Curing America’s Race Problem?
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Could Poor Communication Decisions Derail Constructive Reform?
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