Mary Gannon Executive Vice President, U.S. Practice Lead, Media + Presentation Coaching, Edelman Mary Gannon leads media and presentation coaching services for Edelman in the U.S., working with clients around the globe. A nationally recognized communications strategist, Mary coaches executives at the world’s leading companies to communicate with confidence. In an ever-changing world where content is infinite but attention is not, Mary’s background as a reporter and producer for CNN Television in Atlanta, WGN-Channel 9 and WBBM Radio in Chicago is crucial to helping clients effectively deliver high impact messages to external and internal stakeholders. The bulk of Mary’s experience is with Fortune 500 C-level executives across all sectors of business. She has a proven track record of getting positive results with her engaging and confident coaching style. Mary’s clients include Adobe, AstraZeneca, Barilla, Boeing, Cigna, Eli Lilly, Google, H&R Block, HP, lululemon, Mars, Mitsubishi Power, Nike, NortonLifeLock, Pepsi, Snapchat, The Home Depot and United Airlines. Mary focuses on best tactics to succeed whether an executive is delivering messages to a ballroom of shareholders, an auditorium of employees or just one hard-hitting reporter with a camera. Instruction, diagnosis, discussion, videotape and feedback are all components of Mary’s coaching sessions. She guest lectures at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and DePaul University and holds a B.S. in journalism from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.