Joanna Piros, Senior Consultant

Joanna Piros has over 20 years experience in the media as a reporter, television news anchor, writer and producer. As a communications consultant and trainer, she has helped a wide variety of clients create communications strategies, create events, and become better communicators with external audiences, internal audiences, and media. She can help you become your own best spokesperson.

As a long time journalist and broadcaster, Piros is no stranger to deadlines and multiple demands. She moves easily among different formats - print, digital, video, the classroom and the boardroom - while keeping a keen eye on the big picture.

She is also an instructor with the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, where she teaches courses in effective communications, leadership and presentation skills. She also teaches media relations at the Justice Institute of B.C.'s Fire Officer Program.

Piros appears in feature films, television movies and episodics, and is a highly sought after speaker on media literacry and strategic communications issues. She is a very popular speaker in the field of fire and rescue where she has co-developed a curriculum for teaching media and public relations as a function of incident command and emergency scene management.

Piros is chair of the judging panel for the annual, and prestigious, Jack Webster Journalism Awards.

Piros has a BA in Journalism from Carleton University.

Joanna Piros can be reached at (604) 638-0871 or piros@counterpoint.ca