Regional VP Communications
Comcast
Innovative and award-winning strategic communications professional with experience working for organizations considered tops in their fields, ranging from Comcast, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois and Edelman Public Relations to the American Medical Association. For these organizations and others:
-Created and executed strategic external and internal communications plans tied to shared business goals
-Served as an integral member of senior leadership teams and helped guide business and other key decisions
-Placed thousands of media clips that generated millions of dollars in sales
-Built partnerships with key stakeholder organizations that influenced purchasing decisions and brand perception
-Motivated employees, helped improve employee satisfaction, created internal markets and produced thousands of product and brand ambassadors through internal communications programs
-Defended organizations and brands facing product, service, financial, legal, legislative, regulatory and other issues and crises
-Helped shape public policy and defeat bills that would have imposed onerous regulations on industries and professionals and potentially cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars
-Helped improve the public health through strategic community investment initiatives that promoted healthy behaviors, especially among children
-Worked to improve the lives of others through service on non-profit boards and volunteerism
Skills:
-Leading business-to-business, -consumer and -professional communications; community relations and investment; crisis and issues management; government relations; influencer outreach; internal communications; marketing communications; media relations; and social media activities
-Managing diverse, multi-faceted professional staffs, often in multiple locations
-Working in local, national and international markets
-Working in agency, association, corporate and non-profit environments