Norman S. Hartman

Norm Hartman is a consultant who prepares people to take advantage of media and public appearance opportunities. His clients, top executives, elected officials, authors, organizational spokespersons and others, have appeared on 60 Minutes, Nightline, 20/20, 48 Hours, The Today Show, Good Morning America, the CBS Morning News and hundreds of network and local television and radio news broadcasts. They’ve been interviewed by print media worldwide. Among his clients are the American Medical Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, Health Canada, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and several state health departments and public health leadership institutes. Private sector clients include Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Bayer Corporation, Compaq Computers, Albertson's, Kaiser Permanente Medical Program, Pacific Telesis, Procter & Gamble, E&J Gallo Winery and Covad Communications.

Hartman was a broadcast journalist for fifteen years, including four years as senior news editor at KRON-TV (NBC) in San Francisco. He was News Director at KOVR-TV (ABC) in Sacramento for four years.

Subsequently, he spent nine years with Pacific Bell as director of media and public relations for Northern California, and more than three years directing information and public affairs for the California Department of Health Services, one of the nation’s largest public health agencies. In recent months he has conducted extensive training for public health officials throughout the nation on the media and bioterrorism.

Hartman is often called upon to participate as a media consultant on crisis communications teams. He conducts seminars and training programs throughout the United States and Canada. They range from individual half-day sessions to convention and organization-wide media and public presentation skills workshops. He is the author of "The Media & You—A Basic Survival Guide," published and distributed worldwide by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.