Meet Beth
SmartMouth Founder and Principal Beth Noymer Levine is a Communications Coach who is emerging as one of the country’s leading voices on how to prepare and deliver speeches and presentations that actually work for both the audience and the speaker. Her methodology raises awareness around the unconscious tendency of speakers to be egocentric versus audience-centric and encourages clients to find their voices and their messages in a simple and logical way.
Beth is the creator of the SmartMouth Public Speaking Toolkit, a mobile app found in the iTunes and Google Play Stores. She is also the author of the book Jock Talk: 5 Communication Principles for Leaders as Exemplified by Legends of the Sports World.
No matter the group size or organizational level of the people she works with, Beth is known for building connection and rapport with her clients, being a quick study of their business and communications challenges, and digging in to her clients’ coaching and training processes as if they were her own.
In her 25-year career in communications, Beth has worked both agency-side, for public relations firms Burson-Marsteller and Dewe Rogerson in New York, and corporate-side, for NationsBank (now Bank of America) in Atlanta. She has written speeches, developed presentations, shaped messaging strategies, and coached top-level executives in preparation for high-stakes speaking opportunities and media interviews.
She holds certificates in Training and in Coaching from the Association for Talent Development (ATD). She has lectured and taught courses at New York University, the University of Utah, and at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She established SmartMouth Communications in 2005. Beth is an active member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
Beth Levine is a native of Boston, but currently operates from her home base of Salt Lake City. She has a degree in Economics from Franklin & Marshall College, and completed a post-MBA program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Beth has been featured and quoted in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and BBC. She is a regular contributor to Forbes.com.
A fun fact about Beth is that in her very first job after college, she and a young Barack Obama worked side by side at a New York consulting and publishing company. During the 2008 presidential campaign, when reporters tracked her down to ask what it had been like to work with Obama, Ms. Levine became her own worst nightmare when she gave her now-infamous quote: “I was a human train wreck next to him.” She is a lifelong student of delivering the right message and also a frequent speaker on communicating and presenting.
Beth was honored as one of
Utah Business Magazine’s 30 Women to Watch for 2015
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Meet the Team!
Emily Moench
Emily Moench is an accomplished PR professional with 20 years of experience and a tested ability to provide high-stakes counsel and strategic direction to business leaders. She has been a long-time partner of SmartMouth Communications.
Emily received her B.S. in Mass Communication and her J.D. from the University of Utah; her focus was on mass communication law and client crisis communications. Emily put her education and PR skills to work at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort during a time of remarkable expansion and infrastructure growth, including the building of a mountain coaster and announcement of a mountaintop restaurant, as well as a change in ownership. She also managed the resort’s crisis communications for in-bounds avalanches and other catastrophes.
Emily then went on to become the director of communications for the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity in the Office of Tourism, where she focused on sustainable tourism and managed communications as several of the State’s national parks began mandating reservation requirements.
Emily has spent the last several years using her experience to collaborate with SmartMouth Communications and build her own company specializing in public relations and media training services. Her proactive pitches have resulted in noteworthy feature stories in traditional media, including a story on the front page of the New York Times, as well as articles in The LA Times, NBC Nightly News, The Boston Globe, NPR, Sunset, and many other notable publications. Her thought leadership proposals have landed her clients speaking engagements with TEDx and interviews on national podcasts, and her social media trainings have helped brands grab the attention and engage with millions of followers.