Experienced. Knowledgeable. Flexible. Professional. Your strategic communications needs deserve the highest degree of attention...and attention to detail. I am pleased to welcome you to my website and look forward to building a relationship with you, your employees, your staff and/or your organization. I am committed to providing you with detailed, specific and timely results tailored to your unique needs.
My Promise To You
I am absolutely committed to providing individuals, businesses, organizations, political candidates, students, non-profit organizations and anyone seeking my services with honest, timely, specific, thoroughly professional, and uniquely personalized service from the moment of first contact with me through the unlimited follow-up that you deserve to achieve your communications goals. I will forge with you a strategic partnership that a mere "consultant" will too often promise, but can rarely deliver. Further, I am committed to stay in close, consistent contact with you throughout our relationship at the level that YOU desire and maintain complete confidentiality regarding our work. Finally, unlike so many of my colleagues in this business, I will be completely up front with you at the moment of first contact if my expertise and philosophies do not match your needs (and then gladly refer you to a colleague who can better suit your needs). A communications professional should NEVER offer you anything less. This is my enduring promise to you.
About John
With a 17 year record of impeccable service to clients, colleagues and students, Dr. John D. Reffue is one of America's rising stars in the delivery of a broad range of applied communications strategies to individuals and organizations. Aggressive, intelligent, articulate, and above all, professional, John Reffue's lifelong fascination with communication comes to life in everything he's associated with.
Originally from New York's Capital District, Dr. Reffue has taught numerous classes in both human communication and the mass media at Syracuse University, Jefferson Community College (NY) and Herkimer County (NY) Community College. Since 1995, Dr. Reffue has served on the faculty of Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, FL, where he is the college's senior faculty member in communications and the co-chairman of HCC's General Education Committee. His professional clients have included numerous political candidates in need of an overall message strategy, business professionals from a variety of areas seeking public speaking and corporate communications assistance, students needing individual tutoring to overcome their communication apprehension, and many more. Dr. Reffue's flexibility and ability to connect with the people he serves on their level is what sets him apart from his peers.
Dr. Reffue holds a bachelors degree in communications from Rider University (NJ), a masters degree in speech communication from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. in communication from the University of South Florida. Dr. Reffue continues to actively pursue the academic study of communication. He is a regular presenter at the annual National Communication Association convention. His doctoral dissertation, A Rhetoric of Sports Talk Radio, was the first long-form academic analysis of one of the world's fastest growing forms of popular mass media. The fourth edition of his textbook Speak to Succeed (Allyn and Bacon/Longman) was released during the summer of 2006 and the fifth edition is currently scheduled for release in August 2008.
Dr. Reffue makes his home in Tampa, FL.
How To Get In Touch With Me
Our first contact is, in so many ways, the most important contact we will have. I urge you not to wait to contact me. My initial consultation with you is always free of charge.
- Telephone
- 813-732-6238
- Postal address
- 18339 Bridle Club Drive, Tampa, FL 33647, USA
- Electronic mail
- john@johnreffue.com