Ken Haseley

Founder and principal,
Corner Suite Communications

A graduate of Kent State University, Ken has a Bachelor of Science degree in communications and government. Additionally, he holds an MBA from the University of Dallas.

His corporate experience includes Diamond Shamrock, Occidental Petroleum and Tenneco, where he served as a communications director and worked in investor relations. During his career, Ken helped manage several high-profile, multi-year issues and crises, including Agent Orange and Love Canal. In 1982, he was on loan to the Reagan Administration in Washington, D.C., where he served as a speechwriter.  

His experience as a communications coach and trainer spans nearly 20 years, and involved working with companies and other organizations in 20 countries. Ken has a loyal following among the C-suite executives he coaches.

He has lectured at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and served as a visiting professor at Ivanovo State University in Russia. He developed and now teaches Communications for Leaders in the Executive MBA program at the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston.

Ken is a published writer whose book, Change the Way You Communicate: Why You Should. How You Can., challenges business leaders to eliminate comfortable, but outdated and self-defeating communication skills. His articles and speeches have appeared in Fortune, Vital Speeches of the Day, Moscow Times, IR Update (National Investor Relations Institute) and the Houston Business Journal.  

After Hours

In addition to business communications, Ken’s other passions are sailing his 33-foot “Connecticut Yankee” and driving his ’59 and ’65 Corvettes. Those cars don’t have names, but if they did, they’d be Tod and Buz – a tip of the hat to the two lead characters who traveled the country (in a 1962 Corvette) in the ‘60s TV show Route 66.

Work hard, but enjoy life!