Being Present: Commanding Attention at Work (and at Home) by Managing Your Social Presence

Being Present offers a framework to navigate social presence at work and at home. By exploring four primary communication choices--budgeted, entitled, competitive, and invitational--author Jeanine W. Turner shows when and where to employ each strategy to most effectively communicate in modern life.

Jeanine W. Turner is a professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program and is an affiliated faculty member in the McDonough School of Business, both at Georgetown University. She inspires and challenges executives and students to gain a strengthened sense of how best to communicate their presence in a variety of environments, and has worked within the public and private sectors, including AARP, KPMG, Microsoft, National Football League Players Association, Rolls Royce, Sprint, the US Senate, US Department of Defense, and the World Bank.