Richard Butterfield

About Richard Butterfield

Richard Butterfield works coast to coast as a strategic communication, presentation and media skills consultant, conducting workshops and coaching sessions for business executives, physicians, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and other professionals. He specializes in high stakes presentations, program and product messaging, product launches, public speaking, media training, and facilitation. Clients include CEOs and senior leaders at Gartner Inc, Tenet Healthcare, Williams Sonoma, Epic Games, The Cleveland Clinic, Dolby Laboratories, Microsoft, Genentech, Bungie, Bayer Corporation, Zynga, and Charles Schwab, and law firms Fenwick & West LLP and Sidley Austin LLP. Butterfield’s approach to persuasive presentations draws on his extensive experience as an actor, acting teacher, and director and is informed by a decade of public relations and marketing experience. A Stanford University graduate, he received his master’s degree from the renowned American Conservatory Theater MFA program, where he later served as Conservatory Dean. He is the author of Richard Butterfield\'s Power of Persuasion - Communication and Presentation Skills for Every Profession. Specialties: Butterfield works with individuals and teams as they develop and prepare for product launches, funding pitches, financial presentations, thought leadership speeches, IPO roadshows, and book tours, and prepares lawyers and witnesses for the courtroom.

Experience

1. Trustedpeer Expert

   Trustedpeer

   Sep 2012 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   The Business Expert Network. TrustedPeer® provides high-quality consulting expertise, helping business professionals make critical decisions with certainty - and with the immediacy demanded by today\'s fast-changing business world. TrustedPeer combines the immediacy of the Internet, the trust of a personal network and the quality of traditional consulting into a single, innovative web-based expertise delivery solution.Through Expert Sessions for guided help and answers and a Business Center with content libraries for those seeking a do-it-yourself approach, TrustedPeer’s suite of services create a comprehensive, high-quality, go-to network for all business professionals.

Education

• The A.C.T. Conservatory

  MFA, Acting

  1983 — 1985

• Stanford University

  BA, International Relations

  1977 — 1981