About

Jeff Schwartz is an award-winning strategic communications business talent with more than 20 years of success and strong project management, organizational and interpersonal skills. Mr. Schwartz is a media, public and investor relations expert, with thousands of appearances on TV, radio, and in print, trade and online press worldwide. A strong spokesperson, communicator and C-suite trainer, he is a positive, energetic, and detailed-oriented problem solver. He is a frequent guest speaker, and obsessed with quality, customer service and high-performing teams. Clients from Fortune 500 firms, agencies and government leaders to startups and Venture Capital view him as a virtual executive communications resource:

• Global success innovating communications, media and public relations, crisis and issues management, marketing, digital and business development programs
• National honors for leadership in stakeholder relations, quality and process improvement
• Distinction in the public and private sectors, including Fortune-500 energy, environment, and national security, and in U.S. education, healthcare, science, technology and the news media
• Proficiency in energy, environment, defense, science, and technology development
• Experience in Australia, China, Malaysia. and Asia Pacific

EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW: With a master's degree (Phi Kappa Phi), Mr. Schwartz applies his passion for customer satisfaction and quality through a unique industry, government and media success record:

• Inventing communication programs to earn unprecedented stakeholder support
• Representing high-visibility issues via 5,000+ media quotes, including classified events
• Pioneering digital strategies, apps and content for global use
• Authoring thousands of news releases and online articles to drive reputations
• Training CEOs, astronauts, SMEs, and elected and civic leaders for public success
• Leading Quality and Process-Improvement teams to earn national awards
• Blogging before a public Internet existed, becoming a digital strategy leader
• Creating, managing, coding and designing the busiest B2C healthcare websites
• Designing nationally-honored online branding campaigns, including B2B partnerships
• Managing TV newsrooms, and anchoring and reporting news accurately under deadline pressure for ten years in Ill., Mich. and N.M.
• Appearing as an official spokesperson on network TV, print, electronic, and new media worldwide, representing issues critical to U.S. interests
• Developing capital plans and winning RFPs worth $100M+ in new funding

SPECIALTIES:

• Strategic Communications
• Integrated Media, Social, Public, and Investor Relations
• Project Management
• Executive Communications
• Business & RFP Development
• Multimedia Journalism: Anchoring, Reporting, Blogging
• Strategic Planning
• Digital Strategy, Content, Apps, and Analytics
• Crisis and Issues Management
• Key Messaging
• CEO Training & High-Performance Team Building
• Media Training
• Press Tours
• Clean Energy
• Quality
• 24/7 on-call support

Schwartz has appeared as an official spokesperson on the ABC-, CBS-, CNBC-, CNN-, CBS-, NBC-, FOX-, PBS-, and BBC-TV networks, and in The WSJ, Associated Press, Business Week, Nature, Scientific American, TIME, USA Today, W. Post, the NYTs, and trade and online media worldwide.