Communications

  • Looking back on a year at the CSO

    Today marks my one-year anniversary at my job. The good news is that in terms of what I have learned, it feels I have been at the job over a year, and in terms of time, it feels I have been there just three months. The best news is that I love what I do.…

  • The Audacity of Being Yourself

    I had a two-hour lunch on Tuesday without eating a single bite of food. The two hours were mostly spent in line at the Borders on Michigan Avenue, where Senator Barack Obama was signing his latest book The Audacity of Hope. I had the privilege to run into Obama before. I was heading for the…

  • The Story Factor

    I have just finished Annette Simmons’ book The Story Factor. The book is a guide and sort of a how-to on influencing through storytelling. Although it was an easy and fairly short read, it took me a long time to finish the book. A couple of months to be honest. This is not a criticism…

  • 47th Annual Golden Trumpet Awards

    Today the Publicity Club of Chicago presented their Annual Golden Trumpet Awards at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, honoring top public relations professionals and campaigns. Dominic Calabrese, my former teacher at Columbia College and director of public relations at my past internship location, the Chicago Lighthouse, invited me to join him and others from…