What They’re Saying About Gentry Presentations
“If you want to be prepared to handle high-impact, high-profile communications in today’s unforgiving environment, you have to be able to understand and use complex financial information. You have to not only understand what it means to your company, but also how it can be interpreted (or misinterpreted) by reporters, analysts and customers. This is where Dr. Gentry makes a real difference to communicators: He teaches you how to speak the financial language of business so that you can better promote, protect and defend your companies and your clients. And he explains it in easy-to-understand language.”
Jeff Shafer
Vice President
Fleishman-Hillard Kansas City
“Absolutely fantastic! Great blend of nitty-gritty details, theory, opinion and personal experience. I learned more about this topic in one day than I’ve ever learned in my career.”
FACS/Minnesota Journalism Center workshop participant
“Excellent speaker. This could have been very dull.”
FACS/Minnesota Journalism Center workshop participant
“Mr. Gentry did an excellent job of explaining accounting practices in plain English and I learned a lot.”
FACS/Minnesota Journalism Center workshop participant
“Jimmy Gentry really packed a whole lot into his presentation – a nice job.”
FACS/Minnesota Journalism Center workshop participant
“Awesome. First finance teacher I’ve met who speaks journalism.”
Business Reporter
Seattle Times
“I heard lots of good comments from the staff. As always, everyone wanted more of you and more time.”
Becky Bisbee
Business Editor
Seattle Times
“Thanks for bringing Gentry in. He really knows his stuff.”
Business Reporter
Seattle Times
“Terrific – useful, easy to understand, relevant and timely, well presented.”
FACS/Bay Area Economic Council workshop participant
“Great source of lists, excellent overview of the accounting process. And good real-world examples.”
FACS/Bay Area Economic Council workshop participant
“Good down to earth, solid information with an edge, and good humor.”
FACS/Bay Area Economic Council workshop participant
“Lots of people — a surprising number of people — have stopped me and said how much they learned from your presentation. The comments have been uniformly good. I’m truly heartened and impressed by the response.
To be honest, I was a little worried that the non-business folks, such as the designers, etc., would be a bit under water. Several admitted that some information was beyond their expertise, but they all said they got something out of it and enjoyed it.
It’s long been a dream of mine to introduce business concepts to non-business sections of the newspaper. Your presentation really pushed us toward that goal.”
Charles Crumpley
Business Editor
New Orleans Times-Picayune
