Senior Coach / Trainer George Maston
IN MEMORIAM
The late George Matson, senior consultant with THE SPEECH IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, INC., had over thirty years of speech coaching. His areas of expertise included business/sales presentations, job interviewing techniques, broadcast performance skills, interpersonal speech development, accent reduction, fear of speaking and telemarketing.
Mr. Matson provideded consulting and training for Fleet Boston, Compaq Computer Corporation, Fidelity Investments, IBM, Putnam Investments, Sun Microsystems, Houghton Mifflin Co., The Foxboro Co., Liberty Mutual, ScudderKemper Investments Inc., M.I.T., Hewlett Packard, The Boston Police, and Northeastern University, as well as political candidates. He has spoken at the annual convention of New Hampshire Town Managers, and meetings of the American Bar Association, Society of Quality Control Engineers, Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Rotary and Lions Clubs, and many other organizations. His speaking engagements at conventions and meetings have been characterized by an upbeat, thought-provoking style laced with humor.
Mr. Matson’s individual clients range from CEOs to trainees, from professionals to students, from the articulate to the disfluent. A significant portion of his coaching involves accent reduction. With over thirty years as a speech coach, he has helped countless individuals from many countries reduce their accent and “Americanize” their speech. Other major areas of Mr. Matson’s individual coaching involved presentation skills development and speech-anxiety reduction. He also has a specialty client base of radio-TV broadcasters.
In addition, Mr. Matson had several years of experience in broadcasting, recruiting and sales management. He wrote a study on communication in television advertising entitled The Brand Image in Television Advertising.
After Mr. Matson completed his undergraduate degree in English at Boston University, he attended Emerson College for his graduate degree in Mass Communication. He was a well-trained, widely experienced professional speech coach. Clients and colleagues enjoyed and benefited from his relaxed and insightful style. His of course is dearly missed and was a staple during the first generation of THE SPEECH IMPROVEMENT COMPANY., INC.