ABOUT

The author of eight books and more than a thousand national magazine articles — including features in Smithsonian, Audubon, Reader's Digest, Inc., Outside, Men's Journal, Saturday Evening Post and Playboy — Jay Stuller also spent 23 years in public affairs and communications at Chevron Corporation, which Fortune ranks as the third largest corporation in the United States and sixth largest in the world. Working with the company’s most senior executives, he was intimately involved in all aspects of the global business and its issues.

Stuller thus brings an exceptionally rare combination of business and media knowledge to his consulting practice. While serving a variety of clients, his primary focus today is his work as Managing Director & Chief Communications Officer at Bender Consulting.

Still a mainstream journalist, he is a frequent contributor to Hemispheres, the United Airlines in-flight; NCGA Golf, the quarterly of the Northern California Golf Assocation; Chief Executive Magazine; The American Legion Magazine; and among others, Kiwanis. His latest piece is fall 2009 cover story in the Conference Board Review, which is published by the New York-based Conference Board.   Called The Need for Speed, it analyzes the acceleration of 21st century society and its impact on executive decision-making.

Other examples of recent features can be found on The Business of Golf Course Architecture  in NCGA Golf magazine; an American Legion magazine cover story on energy issues entitled Domestic Dilemma. and, an NCGA Golf piece on A previous Conference Board Review cover story, How They See You, on corporate reputation management, appearedin the magazine's May 2009 edition.

His most recent book - - published in the fall of 2008 by McGraw Hill - - is called Perfect Power:  How the Mircrogrid Revolution Will Unleash Cleaner, Greener and More Abundant Energy.  It is written with Robert Galvin, the retired Chairman of the Board of Motorola Inc., and Kurt Yeager, the former President of the Electric Power Research Institute, and argues for the need for the United States to reinvent its aging, inefficient and unreliable electrical system.  The book can be found on the following link to Amazon:  Perfect Power.

                         SERVICESSERVICES

For institutions of all sizes, Jay Stuller offers astute strategic corporate communications consulting, premium hands-on executive speechwriting and editorial services. These skills comprise a core specialty, which is enhancing the success of executive leadership. Informed by deep personal experience with one of the world’s largest corporations and hundreds of distinguished national magazines, Stuller is skilled at bringing clarity to complex issues and crafting articulate and persuasive positions.

Consulting: As Managing Director & Chief Communication Officer with Bender Consulting, Stuller contributes his skills in defining and articulating key goals and messages in a compelling and inspiring way, so that stakeholders throughout the organizations with which Bender works understand exactly what must be done to enable a venture attain its maximum value and success.

Speechwriting: Stuller still frequently crafts speeches for executives worldwide. His work has recently been featured in speeches at oil, natural gas and energy conferences in Bangkok, Thailand; Houston, Texas; Hanoi, Vietnam; and Perth, Australia.

Editorial Services:  With experience in writing papers to op-eds, grant proposals and bylined articles, there is no area of non-fiction with which Stuller does not have experience and skills.  In the fall of 2008 - - and given just five days to complete the project for a public relations agency- - Stuller drafted the annual report for a U.S.-based Fortune 1000 corporation. 

Reputation Management & Strategic Communications: During the first two quarters of 2008, Stuller developed a new identity for a major operating company within a Fortune 25 corporation; helped promote its capabilities and enhance its reputation with other corporate operating; leveraged the new identity and reputation through a strategic communications plan.

Ghostwriting: As an independent author and through affiliations with the Gotham Ghostwriters and other agencies and institutions, Stuller offers discreet editorial services for books, speeches, white papers, op-eds, grant proposals and other written materials.