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Thomas W. Mucciolo, BBA

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Prosthodontics
380 Second Avenue, Suite 302, New York, NY 10010
Phone: 212-682-2250
Fax: 212-599-5173
E-mail: tm75@nyu.edu

Education

BBA, Accounting, Iona College 1976

Research Interests / Professional Overview

Research Interests

  • Teaching Effectiveness
  • Presentation Skills
  • Leadership Skills
  • Communication Skills

Biographical Sketch

In addition to his faculty position at NYUCD, Tom Mucciolo is President of MediaNet, Inc., a Presentation Skills Company in New York City. Tom is a recognized industry expert regarding visual communications and business presentations. He has served as a presentation skills consultant for major corporations since 1985 concentrating on the scripting, the visual design, and the delivery skills associated with presentations, especially electronic events.

High-profile communicators, including corporate leaders, politicians, educators, physicians, lawyers, sales teams, media personalities, as well as those at any organizational level, demand his coaching expertise to enhance executive presence, improve leadership effectiveness and develop high-quality communication skills.

The Presenting Made EasyTM workshops and the Electrifying Presentations seminars, seen around the world, feature Tom as the keynote speaker and have been sponsored by industry leaders such as IBM, Microsoft, Dell, In Focus and Toshiba. Beginning in 1999, Tom was engaged as a keynote speaker for Vistage, an organization of CEOs. Tom has delivered over 150 Skills Workshops to these groups throughout the country.

Over the years, Tom has conducted sessions in a number of international venues, specifically in the medical/dental arena. In 2005, Sweden-based Nobel Biocare, the leading manufacturer of dental implants, contracted with Tom to design and implement an annual speaker training program for over 300 dental professionals, from Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Tom has coached people from Japan, Germany, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Brazil, Australia, China, India, South Africa and the Middle East. In many cases, simultaneous translation is used, although Tom can coach people in their native language, since the focus is more on the body language and voice inflection, rather than on the spoken word.

In 2005, Tom joined the faculty of New York University, as an adjunct professor, to increase the communication effectiveness of the NYU faculty, deans, as well international students participating in the NYU T.I.D.E. program.

Tom collaborated with Dr. Leila Jahangiri, his colleague at NYU, to complete a multi-year study on teaching/presentation effectiveness and the results of the research were published in the Journal of Dental Education in April, 2008. As the research expanded globally, acros 17 countries, interactive skills assessment tools were developed to measure effectiveness, these tool were published on the MedEdPORTAL, a peer-review repository for educational, training and assessment materials.

In 2011, Tom and his colleague, Leila Jahangiri, published the book A Guide to Better Teaching: Skills, Advice, and Evaluation for College and University Professors, (Rowman & Littlefield), targeting the academic environment. Currently, using the same research data and skills assessment tools, they are writing a related book that focuses on the improving the speaking skills of business professionals.

Tom is the co-author of five other books

  • Purpose, Movement, Color (MediaNet, Inc.)
  • Special Edition Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 (Macmillan/MediaNet)
  • Special Edition Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 (Pearson/MediaNet)
  • Special Edition Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 (Pearson/MediaNet)
  • Special Edition Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (Pearson/MediaNet)

Two interactive CDs: Mechanics-Basic Skills - covering presentation DELIVERY skills and Media-Design Skills, covering visual design skills

These CDs are part of a multimedia series, the Electrifying Presentations LibraryTM, a complete collection of learning modules serving as detailed references to the concepts covered in the seminars.

Tom is chiefly responsible for the development of MediaNet'sShowSTARTER®, an artificial intelligence program for designing business visuals. He has also contributed his expertise to several business publications through many articles and interviews.

Before founding MediaNet in 1985, he turned his eye toward technology and joined the emerging PC industry at its near inception in 1980 and worked in marketing, sales and training positions. Prior to this, with his flair for entertainment, Tom pursued a theatre career. He had the unique opportunity to study acting with Robert Lewis, founder of the famed Actor's Studio, and the skills he acquired for the stage now serve as the basis for all his coaching programs. Tom launched his business career as a public accountant for Coopers & Lybrand, Price Waterhouse and other companies. Tom earned his business degrees at Iona College in New York.

Representative Publications

Complete listing available on the NYU Health Sciences Library site.

BOOKS

A Guide to Better Teaching: Skills, Advice, and Evaluation for College and University Professors, (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
by Leila Jahangiri and Tom Mucciolo
Copyright 2012

Purpose, Movement, Color (MediaNet, Inc.)
by Tom Mucciolo and Rich Mucciolo
Copyright 1994, 1999, 2003

Special Edition: Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 (Macmillan/MediaNet)
by Partrice Rutledge and Tom Mucciolo
Copyright 1999

Special Edition: Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 (Pearson/MediaNet)
by Partrice Rutledge and Tom Mucciolo
Copyright 2001

Special Edition: Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 (Pearson/MediaNet)
by Partrice Rutledge and Tom Mucciolo
Copyright 2002

Special Edition: Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (Pearson/MediaNet)
by Partrice Rutledge, Tom Mucciolo, and Geetesh Bajaj
Copyright 2006

Research Publications

Characteristics of Effective Classroom Teachers as Identified by Students and Professionals: A Qualitative Study
Leila Jahangiri, DMD, MMSc; Thomas W. Mucciolo, BBA Journal of Dental Education, April 2008, Volume 72, Number 4, p 484-493

Assessment of Teaching Effectiveness in U.S. Dental Schools and the Value of Triangulation
Leila Jahangiri, DMD, MMSc; Thomas W. Mucciolo, BBA; Mijin Choi, DDS, MS; Andrew I. Spielman, DMD, PhD Journal of Dental Education, June 2008, Volume 72, Number 6, p 707-718

Toward a Model of Institutional Scholarship in Health Professions Education
Leila Jahangiri, DMD, MMSc; Thomas W. Mucciolo, BBA Journal of Dental Education, December 2011, Volume 75, Number 12, p 1569-1576

Predoctoral Fixed Implant Patient Satisfaction Outcome and Challenges of a Clinical Implant Competency
Marjan Moghadam, DDS, MA; Renata Dias, DDS; Esther Kuyinu, DDS, MS; Michael B. Ferguson, DMD, CAGS; Thomas Mucciolo, BBA; Leila Jahangiri, BDS, DMD, MMSc Journal of Dental Education, April 2012, Volume 76, Number 4, p 437-442

Characteristics of effective clinical teachers identified by dental students: a qualitative study
Jahangiri, L.; McAndrew, M.; Muzaffar, A.; Mucciolo, T. W European Journal of Dental Education, February 2013, Volume 17, Number 1, p. 10-18