Elisabetta Ghisini is a communications consultant with over 15 years of experience in the U.S. and in Europe. She specializes in international business communications and coaches global executives on keynote speeches, corporate presentations, and media interviews. Her expertise lies in creating core messages and adapting content for global audiences. Her background as a management consultant allows her to understand a client’s business in depth and use communication as a way to achieve business objectives. Elisabetta is an instructor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where she has taught media skills, interviewing skills, and public speaking workshops since 1999.

Previously, Elisabetta was a public relations director with Burson-Marsteller, where she orchestrated the worldwide media launch of Agilent Technologies, HP’s successful spin-off. Prior to that, she was Manager of Communications with the international consulting firm McKinsey & Co., where she advised multinational clients such as HP, Bank of America, Sun Microsystems, Allianz, among others. While at McKinsey, Elisabetta taught business communications skills in executive training programs around the world.

A native of Italy, Elisabetta holds an advanced degree in German Literature from the Universita’ Statale di Milano (Doctor in Modern German Literature and Language). She speaks four languages and is the author of “Communicating the American Way” - a book on U.S. business communication for international executives - published by Happy About Press in 2007. She also serves as Co-Executive Editor of the Happy About® International Business Communications series.