About Us — Founder —cont

Kerrith H. (Kerry) King, 87, is founder and president of Community Communications. Kerry has been a leadership-relationship communication skills coach/consultant in Hawaii for forty-four+ years.

Kerry, with a B.A. and an M.A. in Speech-Communication, has taught part-time for the University of Hawaii's Speech-Communication Department on the Manoa and Hilo campuses and its College of Continuing Education as well as for JAIMS (Japanese-American Institute of Management Science).

Kerry has consulted for such clients as Mike McCormack Realtors, Hobart Corp., Budar Advertising, President of Pacific Construction (builders of the Ala Moana Shopping Center), R. M. Towill Corp. (builders of the Honolulu Airport), U.S. Postal Service—Oahu, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Hickam Air Force ... Wing, Chief psychiatrist of Leahi Hospital, Makiki Mental Health Clinic, Hawaii Child Care Centers (a school system), Director of the State Department of Health—Big Isle, Manager of John Hancock Life Insurance of Hawaii—Oahu, Church of Religious Science (Hilo, Oahu), Department of the Air Force, many educators, attorneys, doctors, dentists and others (references). 

Prior to becoming a consultant Kerry was a career military officer. He served as an enlisted man in the Navy on submarines and then with Underwater Demolition Team-21 - Class 20 E. UDT has since transitioned into today's SEALs.*  He left the Navy to attend college and through R.O.T.C. (as top cadet) received a Regular Army Commission. During his two tours in Vietnam he served both as an Infantry Platoon Leader (173'rd Airborne) and an Infantry Company Commander (82'nd Airborne). A gunshot wound ended his military career. He has two bronze stars (one for valor) and two purple hearts.

* Kerry, through ComCom, has sponsored and maintained an unofficial UDT-SEAL Obituary Records website for over 19 years.

After consulting, teaching and facilitating Support Groups on Oahu for thirteen years, Kerry retired to the Big Isle. In 1988 he donated an Organization Communication Workshop to the "East Hawaii Coalition to Stop Food Irradiation." That one workshop evolved into what's now called Community Communications (ComCom), a true non-profit (no advertising, no one gets paid) 501(c)(3) educational organization. Various activists on the Big Isle were responsible for enrolling more than 1000 community leaders into the weekend-long Communication-Skills Workshop for Community Leaders, a.k.a., Introduction to the Leadership Communication-Skills Workshop.

Given the "Six degrees of separation" phenomenon it's most likely that everyone in Hawaii has interacted with a workshop participant.

Kerry's military training experiences represent proven educational processes having to do with teamwork and excellence. He has integrated these various leadership-communication models with what's currently being taught in the fields of human potential and inter/intra-personal communication. Ninety-five percent of the critiques written by ComCom's workshop participants report favorably. Most participants say it transforms their experience of communication. It picks up where college and academy speech-commmunication courses leave off.

Kerry also does free three-hour Communication Consultations/Coaching for individuals, couples, and small-groups; he also facilitates 6-month Support Groups.  For a free three-hour communication-skills consult appointment (in person, by telephone, or Skype) go here.

For workshop information please Contact Us.