Writing High-Impact Executive Summaries

Philip Vassallo, Ed.D.

Philip Vassallo, Ed.D. has provided comprehensive communication consulting to over 25,000 employees across diverse professional disciplines. His services include teaching and coaching writing and presentation skills, designing interactive courses, assessing professional writing, and writing or editing for numerous organizations. He holds a B.A. in English (Baruch College), an M.S. in education (Lehman College), and a doctorate in educational theory (Rutgers University).

Course Instruction – Dr. Vassallo has taught on the undergraduate and graduate levels, most recently as a faculty member of the Beijing International MBA program. He has taught, coached, and supervised in-person and online communication training programs to executive, administrative, managerial, supervisory, scientific, and technical professionals.

Course Design – Dr. Vassallo has designed over 100 classroom courses, 10 live online courses, and 50 webinars for industries such as advertising, architectural, aviation, banking, education, engineering, entertainment, environmental science, financial consulting, food, healthcare, insurance, law enforcement, legal, medical research, military, petroleum, pharmaceutical, publishing, retail, social services, technology, and telecommunication.

Writing Assessment – Dr. Vassallo evaluated essays and speeches for the Educational Testing Service on standardized tests such as the GRE, GMAT, CLEP, and TSE. He has assessed the writing and presentations of many employees, from nonnative speakers to executives of multinational firms. His review work includes articles, audit reports, business plans, causal analyses, executive briefings, instructions, justifications, manuals, market overviews, meeting summaries, policies, proposals, slide decks, speeches, test reports, and trip reports.

Writing and Editing – Dr. Vassallo is the author of three instructional books: How to Write Fast Under Pressure, The Art of E-Mail Writing, and The Art of On-the-Job Writing. He writes the highly regarded blog Words on the Line, on effective writing. More than 100 of his articles on writing have appeared in professional, literary, scholarly, and educational publications. He has edited high-profile reports for the US government and New York City Mayor’s Office. He has also reviewed books for McGraw-Hill, St. Martin’s Press, and Simon & Schuster.