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Mimi Tennyson Goss, Ph.D. is a communications consultant, media trainer and former reporter who teaches at Harvard University′s John F. Kennedy School of Government. With 20 years of experience, she trains leaders in government, business, labor, non-profits and the media nationally and internationally. Her clients and students include heads of state, diplomats, politicians, military officials, corporate executives, union leaders, non-profit heads and journalists.

Mimi Goss, Ph.D.Mimi Goss, Ph.D.
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Dr. Goss has written for Boston Magazine, Management Review, The Boston Globe and Le Nouvel Afrique Asie. She has been a commentator on The O′Reilly Factor and Greater Boston with Emily Rooney, and a guest speaker at Harvard′s Memorial Church.

Goss has taught communications and conducted media training since 1989 at Harvard′s Kennedy School of Government. Currently at Harvard, she teaches the Edward S. Mason Fellows from developing countries and, in Executive Programs, the National Security Fellows and National Hispana Leadership Institute. She taught the courses, “The Arts of Communications” with White House adviser David Gergen and “Nationalism and National Identity: An Exploration through Film” with political scientist Stanley Hoffmann. Dr. Goss also was a journalism lecturer at Boston College and Boston University.

She received her Ph.D. in film, psychology and culture, and M.S. in journalism from Boston University, and her B.A. from Concordia University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She also studied at the Friedrich Schiller Universität in Germany. She speaks French and German.