About

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. His college text, Counseling and Interviewing in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: A Therapy Resource, is due from Jones and Bartlett in 2016. 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 appear 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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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.