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David E. Johnson and the trouble with being noticed
He helps authors get into the conversation and companies survive it. For Strategic Vision PR Group founder David E. Johnson, the difficult part of publicity begins after someone pays attention.
Patrick O’Reilly and the small print of persuasion
From Washington politics to Riverside public affairs, Patrick O’Reilly has built a career around the details that make a public argument work. His firm’s story runs through council votes, conservation land and the long business of being understood.
Michael Gordon and the art of knowing when to stop
Michael Gordon built Group Gordon around the marriage of strategy and execution. His own career, from the Clinton administration to a Westport school board, reveals the harder part: deciding what deserves your time.
Emily Reynolds Bergh and the business of paying attention
A food writer became a publicist, then built R Public Relations around the people she wanted to work with. For Emily Reynolds Bergh, the useful story has always started with a conversation.
Erica McArthur Allison and the Geography of Trust
She built a communications agency with clients across the country, then bought a building in a Hendersonville neighborhood she wanted to help grow. For Erica McArthur Allison, where you stand has a great deal to do with what you can say.
Mary Shank Rockman and the business of being called back
She started MSR Communications in her living room in 1999. Twenty-seven years later, Mary Shank Rockman is still making the case for a kind of public relations that depends on remembering the person at the other end.
Tarrah Cooper Wright and the arithmetic of an open door
Four grandparents came to Chicago looking for opportunity. Their granddaughter built a career shaping its public voice - and a communications firm with a stake in who gets heard next.
Luca Barabino and the Business of Being Understood
He wanted to draw the identities of companies. Instead, Luca Barabino spent forty years helping them explain themselves - from Italy’s privatisations to a football pitch back home in Genoa.
Jennifer Connelly and the business of being believed
At 26, Jennifer Connelly started a communications agency with a BlackBerry, an old PC and a 90-day plan. The longer story is about learning when to speak, when to listen and when to tell a powerful client something unwelcome.
Michael Sitrick and the story behind the story
Before Michael S. Sitrick tells a client’s story, he investigates it. From a disputed taco to corporate boardrooms, his career traces the power, and the complications, of deciding which facts get heard.
Gina F. Rubel and the business of saying no
She trained to argue a case, then built a communications agency. For Gina F. Rubel, the work now begins with deciding which promises are worth making.
Gina F. Rubel and the business of saying no
She trained to argue a case, then built a communications agency. For Gina F. Rubel, the work now begins with deciding which promises are worth making.
Jimmy Asci and the Trouble With a Good Story
Before co-founding Scale, Jimmy Asci explained music rights, advised embattled executives and led communications at WeWork during its aborted IPO. His career traces what happens when a carefully prepared story meets an audience with questions.
Kristin Cowart Pierce and the Questions That Followed Her Home
She built BRAVE Public Relations to help brands tell their stories. Then her children asked where she went all day - and the answer became a book.
Peter V. Stanton and the Advantage of Listening
He built a public relations firm in 1989 and a career spanning papal visits and a shuttle launch. Decades later, Peter V. Stanton keeps returning to a quieter question: who has actually been heard?
John P. Lonsdorf and the art of staying in the story
A former English teacher built R&J through four decades of changing media. His career turns on a quieter skill: knowing which part of a story deserves attention.
Heather Hoopes-Matthews Knows What Silence Sounds Like
She spent years asking the uncomfortable questions. After co-founding NP Strategy, Heather Hoopes-Matthews built a career helping people answer them - and learned to keep an eye on her own eyebrows.
Karla Jo Helms and the trouble with being believed
She learned public relations where the stakes were immediate and the clock was unforgiving. Now the founder of JOTO PR Disruptors is asking a quieter question: what makes a good business credible before it needs a rescue?
Kathy Tunheim and the art of changing the view
She left engineering for politics, then left Honeywell with four colleagues to build a communications firm. Kathy Tunheim has spent the years since asking leaders to look again - and take responsibility for being understood.
Chuck Winner and the trouble with winning
Charles “Chuck” Winner helped clients win public arguments, then questioned the machinery that made those victories possible. His life ran from Kennedy’s campaign trail to corporate boardrooms and the California racetrack.
Sean Cassidy and the Art of Staying Newsworthy
He joined DKC as an account executive in 1992. More than three decades later, Sean Cassidy is still there - asking what makes a story worth telling, and changing the business built around the answer.
Amber Roberts knows the story starts before the headline
At Vested, Amber Roberts has built a career around the moments a press release cannot settle. Her work follows the people, decisions and preparation behind financial reputations.
Guy Chipparoni and the business of an invitation
From Hyatt and Jim Edgar’s press office to a Vatican audience, Guy “Chip” Chipparoni has spent his career where private interests meet public decisions. As Choose Chicago’s board chair, he is helping turn the city’s welcome into a funded plan.
Amy Power and the art of getting out of the way
She built a Dallas PR agency around the life she wanted to live. Then Amy Power had to learn how to let other people help run it.
James Madlom and the case for making room
A duplex, a growing communications firm, and a family formed through adoption: James Madlom’s Milwaukee story keeps returning to a practical question. Who gets a place here?
Chas Withers and the Value of Leaving
His mentor encouraged him to leave Dix & Eaton and come back with more to offer. Now Chas Withers is testing how an employee-owned firm can keep its history while changing its future.
Deana Haworth and the people outside the plan
Raised in rural southern Indiana, Deana Haworth noticed who conventional campaigns were missing. Now the CEO of Hirons, she brings that attention to audiences, employee-owners and the next generation of leaders.
Phil Singer and the art of getting ahead of the story
A campaign spokesman learns quickly that the next question is already on its way. Phil Singer took that lesson from national politics into Marathon Strategies, where research, reputation, and the public argument share a desk.
Lyndsey Estin and the problem of the first answer
After two decades advising companies through consequential moments, Lyndsey Estin now leads Kekst CNC’s U.S. business. Her work in cybersecurity and AI asks a deceptively difficult question: what should a company say while it is still learning what happened?
Ron Sachs and the Art of Leaving the Chair
He opened his firm with three clients and enough savings for four months of failure. Thirty years later, Ron Sachs’s most revealing work may be the opportunities he has made for other people.