Michele Mason is a communications and holistic stress-management consultant. Coaching, lecturing, and conducting workshops in presentation skills, media training, and stress management, she has worked with organizations that include Johnson & Johnson, Time Warner, and UNICEF.  She helps people build confidence, manage nerves, and communicate effectively and powerfully in their unique personal style. A meditation teacher for over 20 years, she teaches at NYU SPS and at Queensborough Community College. As a professional performing artist, she brings extensive onstage skills in music and theatre.  At the Center for Applied Liberal Arts, Mason teaches Sharpening Your Presentation and Speech Skills and Speaking Mindfully.