ABOUT

McNally: MessageMatters

Strategic communications consulting,
speaking, training, coaching, and writing.

 

DISRUPTIVE

Monthly podcast produced with Harvard’s
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

 

Free Forum with Terrence McNally

Streaming Saturday 7pm PT, 10pmET
ProgressiveVoicesNetwork on TuneIn

 

Terrence’s Alternet.org Byline:

https://www.alternet.org/authors/5358/

 

TERRENCE McNALLY, a few years after graduating Harvard, left his role as founding director of a Boston secondary school, for Los Angeles and the entertainment industry in search of larger audiences. After twenty years as an actor, director, screenwriter (Earth Girls Are Easy — starring Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans), songwriter and record producer (classic novelty songs on Julie Brown’s Goddess in Progress, #4 EP in the Village Voices 1985 Music Critics Poll), he wasn’t fulfilling his vision: helping to create a world that just might work.

His experience and aspiration come together now in consulting and media work. As a speaker, writer, consultant, and coach, McNally uses all he learned as a teacher and in the entertainment industry to help foundations, non-profits, public agencies, and progressive businesses communicate more strategically. He offers expertise in media training, presentation skills, message development, and marketing. His most popular work focuses on storytelling and narrative, as he helps individuals and organizations deliver their best messages in person, in writing, or through the media. He also speaks on issues of social responsibility and sustainable development.

Clients include the cities of San Jose and Berkeley, League of California Cities, Annenberg Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Nemours Foundation, Pfizer Foundation, Glaxo-SmithKline Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, NASA, FINRA, CDC/Centers for Disease Control, Urban Library Council, Bank Of America Neighborhood Excellence Initiative, CERES, Friends Of The Earth, Greenpeace USA, League of Conservation Voters, US Climate Action Network, Volunteers Of America, Intel Corporation, Interface Flooring, and Herman Miller.

McNally hosts and produces the monthly podcast Disruptive for Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. The Wyss Institute aims to transform healthcare, industry, and the environment by emulating the way nature builds, with a focus on technology development and its translation into products and therapies that will have an impact on the world in which we live. Monthly interviews give listeners a sense of the people as well as the science while making the most cutting-edge ideas and technologies understandable.

On his weekly radio show on the Progressive Voices Network on TuneIn.com, podcast at aworldthatjustmightwork.com, McNally engages visionary individuals, ideas, and actions. One week Michael Lewis explains the Wall Street crash, the next Father Greg Boyle and one of the thousands of gang members he’s hired at LA’s Homeboy Industries offer hope. Guests include Temple Grandin, Nicholas Kristof, Cornel West, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Craig Venter, Arianna Huffington and Robert Wright. Terrence makes sure complex and important ideas make sense and matter to listeners. All based on the fact that he believes we can do better, and wants to find out how. Print interviews appear at AlterNet.org

Co-author with Hyla Cass MD of Kava: Nature’s Answer to Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia, Terrence is an annual participant at the Conference on World Affairs in Boulder CO, a member of the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences, and has served on the boards of Earth Communications Office, Show Coalition, and Education 1st.