Orlando R. Barone
Orlando R. Barone is an instructor for Business Skills for IT Auditors at Temple’s Fox School of Business. He has been on the adjunct faculty at Villanova University and was also an instructor in Training and Development at the Graduate School of St. Joseph’s University, and has instructed at the university level in communication skills, sociology, education, philosophy, and logic. He is also president of Barone Associates, a Pennsylvania-based management consulting firm.
He has over 25 years’ experience as a coach, negotiation trainer, change consultant, author, and presenter specializing in interpersonal effectiveness, negotiation, leadership and management development, performance management, team building, and training design. His consulting background includes experience in a Fortune Fifty computer company, where he was in charge of marketing and sales team and leadership development worldwide. He has worked in schools as a principal and teacher.
He wrote the best-selling text, Your Voice Is Your Business, now in its 2nd edition, 2016. His college text, Counseling and Interviewing in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: A Therapy Resource, published by Jones and Bartlett in 2016, has become a best selling text in the field. He is a contributing author to the counseling chapter of Neurogenic Communication Disorders (Jones & Bartlett, 2013), also a best selling text. Lonnie’s op-ed pieces have appeared regularly in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Lonnie received his bachelors degree, magna cum laude, from Villanova University and graduate degree from the University of Delaware, where he was awarded the prestigious Unidel Fellowship for two consecutive years.
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