Greg Lefevre Information

Greg Lefevre ("le-FAVE") is a Media Trainer and Consultant serving corporations and associations in their media presence. Programs include on-camera training, coaching, speech improvement and message development. Clients have included executives from Sempra Energy, The Southern California Gas Company, Oracle, Logitech, Chevron, Amoco, Hewlett-Packard, and numerous members of the medical and legal professions. Greg has trained people who have appeared on 60 Minutes, NBC Nightly News, CNN, CBS, Fox News, and in the New York Times. Clients receive an experienced insiders view of how the media works, how it relates to the industries it covers, and lessons in how to best present to the public. Lefevre takes clients step-by-step through a process of de-mystifying the media. Clients receive printed and lecture material, participate in one-on-one video interviews, critiques, guidance, and a DVD or mp4 record of their work for later review. Continuing follow-up is encouraged. For 17 years Greg Lefevre served as Bureau Chief and Correspondent for CNN's San Francisco Bureau. He supervised regional newsgathering for CNN and reported stories for worldwide broadcast. Greg's journalism career spanned five decades and four continents. He covered wars in the Middle East, emerging technology, new media, the dawning of the internet, the O.J. Simpson case, ice skater Tonya Harding, a dozen Presidential campaigns, the conflict over US Forest policy, the Oakland hills fires, the San Francisco and Los Angeles earthquakes, and forest fires in the west. He filed more than seventy on the scene reports on the 1989 Alaska Oil Spill and dozens of follow ups, the most of any network correspondent. Lefevre covered the Middle East in three tours, as Pentagon pool reporter during the Iran-Iraq war, and twice during the Gulf War. He reported live during Scud attacks in Israel and covered Palestinian refugees in Amman, Jordan. Lefevre won a national Emmy award as leader of the CNN team at Oklahoma City. Other awards include three ACE awards, ...