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About V.J. Singal

V. J. Singal is a Houston-based communication consultant, coach, trainer, and speaker, and the author of The Articulate Professional. His Words of the Month--an Internet feature--is the most popular educational channel on AvantGo, with over 170,000 subscribers comprising execs, managers, educators, attorneys, MDs, engineers, and other professionals. He has an MBA with Distinction from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. His opinions have been published in The Wall Street Journal and The Economist, and aired on the BBC and CNN Headline News.

V. J. spent over 20 years with Fortune 100 corporations, most recently with Texas Instruments. He has presented workshops on How to Emphasize Your Point in Just Three Sentences, The Five Techniques of Highly Effective Communicators, Advanced Public Speaking, and related topics to, among others, ExxonMobil, Continental Airlines, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Reliant Energy, department heads at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Aldine and Houston school districts, spoken at conventions in several cities including Dallas-Ft.Worth, Houston, Indianapolis, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Santa Fe.

with his Labrador retriever Buddy

V. J. is also a speech writer, evaluator, and speech coach and has won several contests. In 1997, he won a major trophy at the annual Toastmasters Speech Evaluation Contest for the Houston-Austin-San Antonio district.

Among those whose communications V. J. has invigorated through one-on-one coaching: a Fortune 100 company's Senior VP facing a hostile panel on CBS's Face the Nation; the CEO and other executives of a publicly-traded independent oil & gas exploration and production company; executives / senior managers from ExxonMobil, Shell Oil, Mustang Engineering, Waste Management, the EPA, and J. Ray McDermott; numerous owners of emerging hi-tech and other firms; software engineers of Chinese origin; a Pfizer sales manager; a Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser panelist.

V.J.'s No.1 avocation is watching critically acclaimed films. He regards High Noon, the 1952 Western starring Gary Cooper, to be the most important movie ever made. "In the one hundred-plus years of cinema we have now had, there is no movie that is a finer testament to character, integrity, and personal responsibility. Indeed, the film's central character--that small-town sheriff--is a Mahatma Gandhi of the Wild West!" says V. J. His other interests include nature photography, observing wildlife, and listening to classical music. For over 30 years, his favorite composer has been Beethoven whose music he believes was divinely inspired. V.J. is a silver level member of the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center's Commit for Life.

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