About Dr. Dann
My work with clients, students, and advisees for over 45 years provides a wealth of experience, events, understanding, and insight. Those resources are available to you in development of quality public messages.
Long Experience
CONNECTION
My clients come from all walks: candidates to clergy, business leaders to legal luminaries, deans to dignitaries, campaign managers to NPO directors. Each client has allowed me to help hone important public persuasive messages. Recognizing best possible message connections with audiences frequently makes all the difference.
My students have come from across the USA and the world. I've deeply enjoyed hundreds of talented students seeking their best understanding of public persuasion in its many forms. In many cases those connections have resulted in lifelong professional connections.
RESULTS
Developed and operated video production studio and field operations. Taught basic and advanced class sequence in video production. Created advanced public speaking class. Developed and introduced mass media analysis classes in narrative and story design. Expanded basic and advanced classes in visual persuasion.
Education and Professional Background
Awarded the Ph.D. in Rhetorical Studies from top-ranked University of Iowa. Research and teaching at Auburn University (1983-87). Current emeritus professor from the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Portland where I served as faculty member, Director of the Graduate Program, Department Chairperson, and Faculty Senate President.
Who Benefits?
Process
Research-driven Message Development
Audience, audience, audience. All quality public message planning begins with awareness of your audience. Thereafter, imagining, building, and honing finished messages requires work through provided insight and experience. Expand your awareness of possible paths to audience connection; all such effort is worthwhile and telling.
85 years of systematic university research coupled with my 45+ years of public message development provides an unmatched combination of potent understanding. Connect with research-guided tools, designs, and focal examples to best decide which message elements should be offered to your selected audiences.