John Demma

“Mr B” principal on-camera talent in 25 minute industrial training video for Boker’s Stampings & Washers including script development 300+ hours of voice work for the Minnesota State Services for the Blind broadcast over their closed network. Audio Books include: Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War by James Risen 2014 (11 tracks recorded Jan-Feb 2015) Taking Liberties: Why Religious Freedom Doesn't Give You the Right to Tell Other People What to Do by Robert Boston 2014 (6 broadcasts starting 3-24-15) The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power by Kim Ghattas 2014 (15 tracks recorded Oct-Dec 2014) But Enough About You: Essays by Christopher Buckley 2014 (16 broadcasts starting 12-2-2014) Republicans and Race: The GOP's Frayed Relationship with African Americans, 1945-1974 2013 (16 tracks recorded April-July 2014) This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral - Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking -In America's Gilded Capital, by Mark Leibovich 2013 (13 broadcasts starting 10/2/14) Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy by Amy Larkin 2013 (7 broadcasts starting 9-4-14). Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko 2013 (14 broadcasts starting 7-22-14)) Exit The Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution by Ethan Chorin 2012 (15 broadcasts starting 3-24-14) A Nation Of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters Scott Reynolds Nelson, 2012 (14 Broadcasts starting 6/26/2013) Free Ride: How Digital Parasites Are Destroying The Culture Business, And How The Culture Business Can Fight Back by Robert Levine 2011 (11 tracks recorded Jan-Mar 2013) To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov, 2013 (15 broadcasts starting 3-24-14) Time To Start Thinking: America In The Age Of Descent, by Edward Luce, 2012 (12 broadcasts starting 3/4/2013) The Shadow World: Inside The Global Arms Trade by Andrew Feinstein 2011 (27 Broadcasts starting 10/1/2012) Tony and Susan (Fiction)by Austin Wright 2011 (12 Broadcasts starting 7/10/2013) That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas L.Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum 2011 (16 broadcasts starting 4/23/2012) Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate by Juan Williams 2011 (10 Broadcasts starting 7/30/2012) The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West 2011 Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War by Andrew J,Bacevich 2011 The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama, by Stephen Carter 2011 (8 broadcasts starting 12/7/2011) The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, by Tom Engelhardt 2010 (10 broadcasts starting 11/7/2011) Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View by (Supreme Court Justice)Stephen Breyer, 2010 (10 broadcasts starting 6/29/2011) Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini and Steven Mihm, 2010 (15 broadcasts starting 5/9/2011) NeoConservatism: The Biography of a Movement by Justin Vaisse 2010 (16 broadcasts starting 3/16/2011) City on Seven Hills by Gareth Hiebert How To Talk Minnesotan by Howard Mohr BA Business Administration. 8 hours of Guthrie Acting Classes. 16 hours voice-over training and development including 6 hours of personal coaching and market research demo creation under the direction of seasoned actor and voice professional, Don Cosgrove. In the process of acquiring and setting up home studio equipment and learning audio engineering. ReadMe File For a deeper understanding of the “voice” you’re considering hiring “Voice” (though not voice-over) has been integral to my work in helping clients penetrate the din of the marketplace. I’ve often described my work as giving clients a special gift, their own unique “voice”. For the past 20 years, I’ve had the privilege of working one-on-one with a wide range of high-performance business execs and managers traversing their career paths.At the outset of a client engagement,none,to my recollection, had a command of their “voice”. Not a “voice” (as in voice-over) but their unique value proposition “voice”. What, indeed, was their proposition? (Untrained, very few can “voice” words that accelerate clarity) How did it need to be framed so it authentically expressed what they had done? More vitally, what needed framing so a hiring authority could instantly understand the job candidate’s “voice” (as in strategic value proposition) and see that it fit the hiring enterprise? Looked at from this angle, I’ve been giving clients their “voices” for 20 years. And it’s been exceptionally rewarding. So, why am I going into “voice-over”? It broadens the playing field. It enables me to continue my chase to excellence by leveraging natural voice talent in addition to business and analytical expertise. My aim is to develop sustainable relationships with a select portfolio of voice-over clients who share the chase to excellence with me and who value what I bring to them. Other Details 15,000+ hours experience as Executive Coach, Career Marketing Adviser, Author & Thought Leader guiding high performance business executives & managers in a wide range of industries in North America and expats in Europe and Middle East. Featured presenter,keynoter,guest speaker at the Professional Association of Resume Writers National Convention, the State of Minnesota Seasoned Worker Celebration, the Twin Cities Job Fair and local workshops,several talk-radio interviews and on local broadcast and cable TV programs. Developed an innovative and rigorous qualifications vetting and resume development process as the first tactical step of a strategic career transition. As a “breakthrough business idea” it placed in the top 50 of 600+ entrants in the inaugural 2005 Minnesota Cup competition.