Training
Our Programs
WGA offers one of the most comprehensive portfolios of communications training available today.
Whether you are a senior executive looking to raise your profile as the face of your company, a junior communications professional seeking to improve your skills, or an industry analyst looking for ways to improve your media relationships, WGA has programs that we have designed with your specific needs in mind, and we have more on the way.
Each of our programs is customized to match the specific needs of your company, your situation, and your trainees. WGA has developed a large library of workshops modules that we can use to ensure that you and your colleagues are getting the training they need.
For our programs designed for senior corporate executives, please check here.
For our programs designed for professional communicators, please check here.
And for our programs designed for industry and financial analysts, please check here.
Our Trainers
WGA trainers have provided instruction to hundreds of executives from dozens of Fortune 500 companies, public relations agencies, non-governmental organizations, and institutions in Mainland China, the United States, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Our training team is led by David Wolf and Steven Shwankert.
David Wolf (bio)
In addition to his other duties at WGA, David Wolf is our chief trainer and has led the development of all of our training programs. In addition to providing communications instruction to major corporations, David is frequently called upon to provide professional training to communicators working in some of the world’s largest public relations firms.
David has also served as a guest lecturer at China’s National School of Administration and the executive MBA programs at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, among others.
Steven Schwankert
As a practicing professional journalist, Steven Schwankert has added a unique edge to our media-related training programs for the past four years, leading scenarios and role-plays and providing insider insight into the mind of the working journalist. Steven is an award-winning reporter and editor with 13 years of experience in Greater China, focusing on the technology, media and culture industries. He currently serves as Deputy Asia Editor for film and television industry publication The Hollywood Reporter, and is the China correspondent for top music and recording industry magazine Billboard. He recently wrapped up his role as Asia Desk Editor and China correspondent for IDG News Service, the internal newswire for the world’s largest technology news publisher, IDG.
Steven’s work has been published in world-renowned and regionally-recognized publications including The Asian Wall Street Journal, The South China Morning Post, Billboard, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. It has also appeared on the Web sites of The New York Times, The Washington Post, PC World, CIO, and MacWorld. He is a former editor of Computerworld Hong Kong and a former managing editor of asia.internet.com.
In 2007, he ghost-wrote a book about China’s software industry for a major industry executive, and will once again slip behind the screen for a similar project in 2009, this time covering China’s Internet industry. His own book, The Real Poseidon Adventure: Britain’s Submarine Disaster in China will be published in 2010 by Hong Kong University Press. Beijing & Shanghai, a guidebook he co-wrote for Hong Kong’s Odyssey Publications, is now in its third edition.
Away from his writing desk, Steven is a member of The Explorers Club and founder of SinoScuba, Beijing’s first professional scuba diving operator. In 2007, he led the first-ever scientific expedition to dive Mongolia’s Lake Khovsgol. This year, he will lead a group to Greece’s Ionian Sea to complete filming on the companion documentary to The Real Poseidon Adventure, along with guiding divers to the Underwater Great Wall and a Ming Dynasty city that lies beneath a lake in China’s Zhejiang province.
