Hanson Hosein

About Hanson Hosein

Emmy Award-winning storyteller and strategic communication leader with over two decades of experience helping organizations navigate turbulent times with transformative impact.As President and co-founder of HRH Media Group LLC, I work with Fortune 100 corporations, non-profits, startups, and educational institutions, guiding them through narrative shifts and reinvention. This approach is rooted in my own journey of applying new storytelling methods on the front lines of change.After earning law degrees from McGill and Paris-Panthéon-Assas, I pursued a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. This launched my career at NBC News in New York, soon leading to a four-year assignment to the Middle East, focused on Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. I also spent significant time in the Balkans, earning Emmy recognition for a story on landmine survivors and awards for coverage of the Kosovo war.As a digital storytelling pioneer, I then became one of the first \"backpack\" reporters with CBC News, learning to shoot, edit, and transmit stories on my own. This innovation soon led to NBC signing on as my first client to cover the U.S. war with Iraq, marking the start of HRH Media. With a small video camera and laptop, I reported live over 600 times from conflict zones around the region, paving the way for a new kind of content creation. It culminated in the production of my two award-winning \"Independent America\" documentaries, which were broadcast globally and featured on nascent streaming platforms Hulu and Netflix.I translated this newly accessible form of storytelling into graduate-level curriculum at the University of Washington as co-creator and director of the Communication Leadership program. It formed new career paths for professionals and gave me exclusive access to key founder CEO’s and tech executives. My book,*Storyteller Uprising: Trust and Persuasion in the Digital Age*, became an essential guide for the students and leaders I engaged with.Most recently, I’ve worked collaboratively on emergent initiatives to explore the societal and business implications of Artificial Intelligence. My “Wind Rose Declaration: 16 Tenets for Real-Time Leadership” is a guide for navigating this evolving landscape.Today, I serve as an advisor to CETI (Creative and Emergent Technology Institute), Factal (a risk intelligence news platform), and Foot Soldiers Park in Selma, Alabama. My latest film,*On the Heights (of Avalon by Ibsen)*, explores the power of human creativity in the age of machine learning, asking:\"What story is ours still to tell?\"

Experience

1. President

   Hrh Media Group Llc

   Jan 2003 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• McGill University

  LL.B., B.C.L.

  1989 — 1993

• Paris-Pantheon-Assas University

  M. en droit

  1992 — 1993

• Columbia University in the City of New York

  M.S. Journalism

  1993 — 1994

Skills

• Social Media Marketing
• Writing
• Strategic Communications
• Video
• Press Releases
• Digital Media
• Communications Strategy
• Video Editing
• Media Relations
• Copy Editing
• Marketing
• Creative Writing
• Content Development
• Final Cut Pro
• Copywriting
• Journalism
• News Writing
• Emerging Technologies
• Blogging
• Online Video
• Strategy
• Content Management
• Content Creation
• Publicity
• Documentaries
• Content Strategy
• Social Networking
• Multimedia
• Web Content
• Television
• Producing
• Editing
• Entrepreneurship
• Digital Strategy
• Crisis Communications
• Wordpress
• Interviews
• Video Production
• Web Video
• Nonprofits