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Beth Bennett

Beth Bennett is an award-winning television news reporter and producer with plenty of in-the-trenches experience. She worked on-air for TV stations in Chicago, Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Traverse City. Bennett has covered major disasters, politics, crime, education and entertainment. In addition, Bennett has worked as a freelance producer for the following shows and networks: FOX News Chicago, CBS "Early Show," "Metromix the TV Show" and the Bunim/Murray reality series "Starting Over" which aired on NBC.

Bennett's experience in-front of the camera and behind-the-scenes is a critical element to her media training sessions. She is able to provide clients with both high-level messaging critique and nitty-gritty presentation refinement.

Besides media training, Bennett is a lecturer at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She specializes in television news writing, producing, reporting and videography. Bennett joined the broadcast faculty at Medill in 2003. She has an MSJ from Medill and has an A.B. in English and art history from Kenyon College.

Elizabeth Heller Allen

Elizabeth Heller Allen is a nationally recognized corporate communications executive.

During her 35 year career, Allen has been the vice president and chief communications officer for Dell Computer, Staples, two defense contractors – Raytheon and Loral (now Lockheed Martin) – a hospital system in SW Ohio and held various marketing and communications positions with Citicorp. She has handled crises that affected global financial markets, the conduct of war, the jobs and savings of thousands of workers and millions of investors, and the reputations of iconic CEOs.

While at Dell in Austin, TX, Allen was named PR Week's Top 20 Practitioners in 2003 and the Texas Public Relations Association's Outstanding Practitioner of the Year in that same year. She also taught two introductory public relations courses to juniors at the University Of Texas's College Of Communication.

Allen currently teaches crisis communications to graduate students at Northwestern University's Medill School. She is a 1975 graduate of its editorial journalism program, and was initiated into its Hall of Achievement in 1997. She has been a member of the Medill Board of Advisors since 2003 and delivered the commencement address to graduates of its Integrated Marketing Communications program in December 2002.

She received an MBA from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1977.