Steve Adubato

Steve Adubato Biography

Steve Adubato, Ph.D. (born October 7, 1957) is an American author, broadcaster, motivational speaker and politician. Also a university lecturer, Emmy Award-winning television news anchor, and Star-Ledger columnist, he earlier served in the New Jersey General Assembly in the mid-1980s as New Jersey's youngest state legislator at age 26.

Early life and education

He earned a master's degree from Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Politics, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and later a Doctor of Philosophy degree in mass communication from Rutgers. He was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1983 with the support of his father, Stephen Adubato Sr., a well-known and influential New Jersey Democratic politician. () However, he lost re-election in 1985, thus ending his political career.

Career

Adubato currently anchors two public-affairs television programs for WNET, a PBS affiliate station:

Caucus: New Jersey , an Emmy Award-winning public-affairs television series, also broadcast on the New Jersey Network (NJN), another public-television group
New Jersey Capitol Report , a weekly news program covering New Jersey political issues

In addition to his work on public television, Abudato regularly appears as a media and communications analyst on national television on CNBC, CNN, Fox News, NBC's Today, as well as in New York City, New York, on WNYW. He has also provided expert on-air commentary for NPR radio. Abudato currently provides radio political commentary on WABC (AM), as well as on WOR (AM); he has also hosted on both stations. Most recently, he has regularly contributed to CBS 2 Sunday Morning on WCBS-TV and provides political commentary to Steve Adubato...on Politics on WCBS-TV's website.

He writes a weekly column NJ Connects with Steve AdubatoNJ Voices: Opinions from New Jersey for the Star-Ledger, which focuses on communication and leadership; it reaches over one million readers. He is a syndicated columnist, and contributes to other New Jersey periodicalsthe New Jersey Monthly, The Press of Atlantic City, The Record and NJBIZ.

Stand & Deliver

In 1999, Adubato founded Stand & Deliver: Communication Tools for Tomorrow's Leaders . The Stand & Deliver program provides communication and leadership skills training to young people in the greater Newark, New Jersey, area. Topics covered in the program include leadership and team building; peace-making activities; presentation skills; interviewing techniques; conflict resolution, youth advocacy; listening skills; and overall communication effectiveness. Annually, the Stand & Deliver program provides over 500 young adults with the tools they need to become better citizens and to more effectively compete for and succeed in future employment.

Adubato is the president of Stand & Deliver, which is a professional development and executive coaching program he created to help professionals improve as leaders. Adubato conducts communication workshops, seminars and keynote speeches on such topics as branding, presentation skills, leadership and team building, customer service and dealing with the media. Stand & Deliver clients in the corporate and non-profit sectors include:

Horizon BC/BS
J.H. Cohn
Johnson & Johnson
Merrill Lynch
NASA
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Prudential Financial
Saint Barnabas Medical Center
Wachovia/Wells Fargo

Academia

In addition to his career as a broadcast journalist, Adubato is a Rutgers University visiting lecturer. He is also a "distinguished visiting professor" at Montclair State University, located in Montclair, New Jersey, in the field of broadcast journalism. His research and writing has focused on the role of the media in American society and the current state of journalism.

Books

Adubato is the author of the non-fiction book Speak from the HeartBe Yourself and Get Results (Simon & Schuster)which was featured in Fortuneas well as Make the ConnectionImprove Your Communication at Work and at Home (Rutgers University Press). His third book, What Were They Thinking? Crisis Communication: The Good, the Bad and the Totally Clueless], examines highly publicized and often controversial public relations and media mishaps. Adubato's most-recent book, YOU Are the Brand! , was to be released in August 2011.

Accolades

He has been the recipient of four Emmy Awards for his work on public television. In 1995, 2000 and again in 2001, the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented Adubato with Emmy Awards in the category of "Best Host".

New Jersey Monthly named him one of the top-five most-powerful media figures in the state. In the past, the magazine selected him as one of the "50 Most Interesting People" in the state as well as one of the "25 Most Influential People in New Jersey".

Personal life

Adubato has been a resident of Montclair.