Remembering My Classmate, Jill Hennessy Shea (1973-2025)
God blesses our lives with people, in ways and at times that can be under-appreciated until, suddenly, one day, it’s not.
Category In Memoriam
Legacy in the Face of Loss: The Catharsis of Philanthropic Memorials
Philanthropy can be the highest form of communication in coming to terms with sadness, confusion, and even anger, in the face of loss.
2024: Praying Farewell to the Pandemic Boomerang
It's 2024, and not everyone is OK. Let’s rethink what “coping” means and what it requires... including for leaders.
New ICCO PR World Report Includes North American Market Insights
The North American PR agency sector faces a slew of competing priorities -- with budgets unequal to client demands.
Remembering Hickory Construction’s Chuck Alexander
In 15 years of operating my PR firm in Blount County, one of my favorite clients was Hickory Construction… and alongside Hickory’s Pinnell Family, two of my favorite pillars of the Blount County / Greater Knoxville community have always been…
World Mental Health Day 2023 (10 Oct) Deserves Urgent PR Industry Attention
October 10, 2023 will mark World Mental Health Day, and if there is any industry more ripe for taking notice and – more importantly – taking action toward better outcomes, it’s the public relations (PR) sector. Two years ago, executive…
New PR Ethics Code Research Reveals Rampantly Outdated & Undated Codes
If a public relations (PR) ethics code hasn’t been meaningfully updated since before the dawn of social media and is widely locked in a myopic, media-relations-centric time-warp, then it’s missing massive chunks of essential treatment of contemporary issues.
Carole Anne Coleman was Beautiful, Inside and Out
"What I found weren’t answers, though… just evidence-upon-evidence that Carole Anne wanted to project goodness and kindness onto the world..."