Catherine Zizik

Catherine Zizik is an Associate Professor of Communication and Department Chair at Seton Hall University, where she has served since 1985. She specializes in empowering students through rhetoric and performance, and co-founded Seton Hall's National Ethics Bowl Team while founding both the Brownson Speech and Debate Team and the Metropolitan Forensics Institute. Her expertise spans communication ethics, leadership strategies, and speech delivery.

• Department Chair, Department of Communication, Media and the Arts
• Co-Director, National Ethics Bowl Team
• Founding Director, Brownson Speech and Debate Team
• Foundress & Director, Metropolitan Forensics Institute

Her research focuses on invisible disabilities and inclusion, compassionate leadership, nonverbal communication, and biographical performance. As a performance practitioner, she has coached nationally award-winning speakers and trained executives at Pfizer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Merck, and the BOC Group during their merger with Linde Gases in Germany.

• Member, National Communication Association
• Member, Association for Professional and Practical Ethics
• Member, American Forensics Association
• Member, International Business Communication Association