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Gillian Renault

President

Gillian launched RCI's successful media training program in 1999 and has trained a diverse range of clients from CEOs and senior executives to scientists, chefs, and television hosts. She and her team have conducted trainings in numerous cities throughout the United States and worldwide, from New York, Los Angeles and Washington DC to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Sao Paulo. Her clients have done successful interviews with media as diverse as The Today Show, Larry King Live, the New York Times, Late Night with David Letterman, People magazine, and numerous consumer and business-to-business publications, as well as major national and international press conferences. Gillian has more than 25 years experience in public relations, including many years in management and leadership positions and proven skills in strategy development, crisis communications, media training, development of corporate image and brand, domestic and international publicity campaigns and executive training. Clients rely on her creative and strategic thinking, professionalism and results -oriented motivation.

Gillian has developed and implemented media strategies for a select number of national corporate clients who are leaders in their industry, including Discovery Communications, Tech TV, Zone Vision Limited, and the TV networks Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Health Channel, the Game Show Network, the Weather Channel and the outplacement firm, Lee Hecht Harrison.

Gillian's corporate management experience includes developing and running assertive and successful public relations departments for NBC-TV, E! Entertainment Television, and the Travel Channel. Her early career included learning the ropes at two top public relations agencies in Los Angeles, Clien + Feldman Public Relations, for whom she handled the "Entertainment Tonight" account, and Stone/Hallinan Associates. At this well-regarded, boutique agency, Gillian handled national publicity campaigns for the Hallmark Hall of Fame and other corporate underwriters of quality television programming such as IBM and Exxon.

Prior to entering the world of public relations, Gillian was a journalist and broadcaster in Los Angeles, writing for the Herald Examiner, Los Angeles Magazine, California Magazine, and reporting for the local National Public Radio affiliate. She is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the PRSA, CTAM, and the Atlanta Press Club.