“However beautiful the strategy, you
should occasionally look at the results.”
-Winston Churchill

 

Outcomes matter. For more than two decades I have helped companies and organizations make a difference in their marketplaces. Those efforts included:

    • Helping a Dallas law firm land an appearance on NBC’s “Today Show” in support of a legal case. Our efforts help resulted in more than 300 local television and media websites carry information about the case.

 

    • Assisting the Hotel Association of North Texas stop an initiative that would have led the Dallas hotel tax rate becoming one of the highest in the nation at 18 percent. The issue: how to fund a new Dallas Cowboys football stadium. It didn’t pass, resulting in an estimated annual savings of over $30 million for Dallas area hotels. I also assisted the association in its support of the new American Airlines Center that helped revitalize the downtown area as well as expand the Dallas Convention Center.

 

    • Working with national organizations such as Business Roundtable and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to gain support in Texas for trade legislation such as NAFTA, GATT, and China’s Most Favored Trading status.

 

    • Helping introduce to Texas what is now the Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Created by the Texas Legislature as a government corporation after the near collapse of the workers’ compensation system in Texas, I helped place company executives in front of key audiences across Texas. Today, Texas Mutual is the largest workers’ compensation carrier in Texas.

 

  • More than 20 years ago I was part of a Texas public relations team that assisted North Carolina National Bank in their take-over of the First Republic Bank in Texas. At the time it was the largest bank take-over in the country. Today NCNB has grown into the Bank of America, one of the largest financial institutions in the country.

Two years ago I was honored to be selected by U.S. Defense Department’s Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Committee as their Public Affairs Volunteer of the Year for my work with the Texas ESGR committee. That’s me above receiving the award at a ceremony in Washington D.C. from national ESGR chair Jim Rebholz (left) and Assistant Secretary of Defense Dennis McCarthy.