Dr. Allan Bonner

Allan Bonner has coached approximately 30,000 people to deal with some of the most controversial and public issues of our time. He has worked with heads of government, G7 and UN delegations, the WTO, NATO as well as CEO's and diplomats around the world. He has recently worked in Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Bangkok, Beijing, Singapore, Canberra, Budapest, Geneva, Bled, most American States and all Canadian Provinces.

Mr. Bonner has lived and worked in every region of Canada and done field work from: the Johnson Space Centre in Houston Texas, Cape Canaveral in Florida, the Museum of Broadcasting and CBS News Headquarters in New York, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and the cease fire line in Cyprus.

In his 14 year career in journalism, he worked at the local and network levels in both Canada and the United States.

He holds degrees in Political Economy, Education, Business and an MSc in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management. He has taught at the college level and regularly lectures at several universities and colleges. Dr. Bonner has been trained in leadership education at Harvard University and in dispute resolution at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Dr. Bonner conducted research for the Kent Royal Commission which studied concentration of ownership in newspapers. He has been a contributor to both popular and academic publications including: 'Marketing Magazine', 'Law Times', 'Bout de Papier' and 'Canadian Corporate Counsel', The National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Calgary Herald, The Ottawa Citizen, The Hill Times and Internal Focus.

Allan is the author of several books on business issues including: 'Doing and Saying the Right Thing' and 'The Bonner Business Series: Media Relations."

He is a regular key-note speaker whose recent engagements include: International Association of Business Communicators ( Los Angeles , New York , Toronto ), the Public Relations Society of America, The National Conference on Disaster Management, Canadian Public Relations Society, The Insight Conference on Crisis Communication and Risk Management, International Association of Business Communicators, The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, the Tokyo and Princeton Chambers of Commerce, the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency, The National Business Show, and the Emirates International Disaster and Environment Conference 1998 (EIDEC '98) in Dubai.