Eda Roth is an actress and consultant who specializes in bringing theatre based skills to business communications. She has taught presentation and communication skills and has worked extensively in the area of leadership, helping executives to develop clear messages and powerfully and effectively engage others.Using acting and directing skills she helps executives gain greater understanding of how to form and deliver communications that are strategic and achieve desired results. Her approach is highly individual working to enhance the strengths of each person. She works to deepen the connection to the message and the audience.

Eda has been on the faculty of Boston University’s School of Management Leadership Institute since it began in 1989. She also teaches in the Executive MBA program and for seven years taught in the Executive MBA program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Management. She is a national faculty member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows Leadership program. She also teaches in the California Health Care Foundation Leadership program and has worked with the Rennaissance CEO Leadershp Forum at Gozaga University and the Women’s Leadership Forum at the University of Alabama.

Other clients include: Abt Associates, AT&T, Arthur D. Little, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Boston Scientific Corporation, Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Coca-Cola, Data General Corporation, Fidelity Investments, Florida Power and Light, John Hancock Financial Services, Hewlett-Packard Company, the law firm of Hill and Barlow, KAO Infosystems, Levi-Strauss & Co., and the U.S. Postal Service.

She has taught voice, speech, and acting at New York University Graduate Acting Program, Boston University, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Eda has worked as an actress in New York and regional theater, on stage and in film and television. She has also worked as a professional dialect coach in theater and film and has coached Danny Aiello, Jeff and Lloyd Bridges, Richard Dreyfuss, and Holly Hunter. She received her BA from Connecticut College and an MFA from New York University Graduate Acting program.

Programs

• Presentation Skills:The ability to develop and deliver clear messages is critical to people at all levels of their organizations. Presentation Skills focuses on organizing clear messages and basic principles and behaviors to strengthen delivery skills. 

 • Understanding the audience • Ability to organize strategic messages • Greater clarity • Use of the voice and body

• Executive Presence: What make people compelling? Executives need to have the expertise and flexibility to engage others. Whether gaining organizational support, talking to a Board of Directors or community groups, the ability to engage others is critical. In these programs we focus on the elements that make people compelling, understanding a framework for communication, identifying strengths and weaknesses in each individual and extending the range of expression so that each person can achieve greater results in a variety of circumstances.

• Identify strengths and weaknesses in communication • Extend the range of expression for greater effectiveness • Understand the values that drive communication • Develop a stronger connection to the message and the audience