Unlock your potential with powerful communication & leadership skills
Gilda Bonanno partners with you to create tailored strategies and actionable solutions that elevate your communication, leadership, and presentation abilities—driving lasting success.
Gilda serves as a trusted advisor to executives and entrepreneurs at leading organizations, including Linde, Baldor, JP Morgan Chase, International Seaways, Henkel and Yale University, on four continents from Chicago to Shanghai and Rio to Rome.
What Gilda's Clients Say
Valeta Prendergast
Development and External Relations Director
B1C Building One Community
"Gilda is one of the best emcees and facilitators that I have had the pleasure to work with. She brings professionalism, relatability, and approachability to her work. Gilda was instrumental during our organization’s largest signature event of the year, where we attracted donors, elected officials, board members, volunteers, and other key stakeholders. Gilda’s expertise enabled us to drive donations during the live fundraising portion of the event in a much more succinct way than it had been done in prior years. We would love to continue working with Gilda in the coming years, because she brings so much knowledge of what it takes to run a successful event - from planning the run-of-show, scripting and rehearsing speeches, and having familiarity with a wide range of venues."
James P. Cantey, ASA
President
The TPS Group - The Pension Service, Inc
"Just wanted to thank you for speaking to our management and sales team. You tied in a lot of ideas and made them real and quietly energized our team. One of our team leaders said to me afterwards: ‘Gilda is a very dynamic person and her presentation was not just entertaining, it was inspiring and motivating.’ TPS group looks forward to working with you and our sales people to refine their presentation skills.”
Fred Johnson
Program Manager
United Technologies
"Gilda did a fantastic job at making the audience think about what is important to them, and how life is too short (~28,000 days) to delay goals. I highly recommend that you hire Gilda as a speaker."
Diane Smith
Emmy Award-winning journalist, NYTIMES best-selling author, Distinguished Lecturer
University of New Haven
"I've seen Gilda in action both as a featured speaker and event emcee and she is top notch! Whether she is serving as a dynamic emcee at a large, live event or sharing communication skills strategies in a virtual classroom with university students, she exemplifies the public speaking best practices that I've learned in my thirty years as a broadcast journalist. Her expertise is matched by her energy and ability to engage an audience. I highly recommend Gilda for your next event!"
Patricia Russo
Executive Director
The Campaign School at Yale
"Gilda presented "Finding Your Voice, Making it Matter" for our training. She shared practical, invaluable suggestions about improving their communication and presentation skills that helped them to create and deliver a clear, concise and compelling message. The students raved about her so much that we had to bring her back for future workshops. She is so FABULOUS and we are SO lucky to have her as a beloved member of our CSYale faculty!"