Mary Civiello is President of Civiello Communications Group (CCG), a leading executive communication coaching consultancy.

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Mary launched CCG in 2000, after more than 20 years being a NBC New York Hampton Pearson Reporter and Anchor.

Working on TV, she won six Emmies, as well as the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting.

As a media and presentation coach, she was was honored with a 2003 Clarion Award and dubbed the Corporate executive's "Communications Guru" by the New York Times.

Mary is the author of Communication Counts: Business Presentations for Busy People (June 2008; Wiley), and contributes to Postcards, a Fortune Magazine blog aimed at top executives.

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Over the years, she has interviewed U.S.

Presidents from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton, Mayors of New York from Ed Koch to Rudy Giuliani, as well as the CEO s of many Fortune 100 companies.

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Mary holds a B.S

and M.S in

Human sciences and Journalism from University of Missouri-Columbia. ^{[2] [4]}

Mary lives with her husband and two children.

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