Clearview Communications + PR

About

James Andrew Bowen, APR

LARGE AGENCY LEADERSHIP HELPS GENERATE MILLIONS

Bowen was Senior Vice President for Public Relations for five years at Atlanta advertising agency Fletcher Martin Ewing, and Senior Vice President for Public Affairs for two years at Ketchum Worldwide in Atlanta, before founding Clearview Communications & Public Relations/The Message Masters in 2002.

• At Ketchum, Bowen managed the public affairs outreach for Georgia’s Clean Air Force, a key component of the $40-million campaign by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division to reduce air pollution in the Atlanta region.

• At Fletcher Martin Ewing, Bowen was instrumental in numerous new-business wins and managed the agency’s successful bid on the Georgia Department of Human Resources’ $1.3 million statewide Breast Cancer Awareness and Education Campaign (still considered one of the most successful in DHR history).

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS: HUNDREDS OF EXECUTIVES TRAINED

Accredited in Public Relations (APR), Bowen has developed expertise and excelled in leadership in all areas of the public relations profession, including but not limited to:

• Founding The Message Masters, Clearview’s executive educational initiative. The Message Masters is known and respected for its rigorous, relevant workshops and real-world training situations assisting senior leaders  in developing communications skills appropriate in routine and critical incident conditions, including media interviews executive presentations. This trusted, confidential strategic and tactical communications consulting program has been experienced by more than 1,000 senior level participants in the past 10 years
• Client situational analyses expertise, setting objectives, strategies, timelines, staffing and budgeting, progress reports and client update meetings
• Brand messaging brainstorm facilitation and collaboration on development of executive summary and recommended client taglines, slogans and key messages
• Media, community, employee, and government relations
• Crisis and critical incident planning, management, communications and debriefing
• Blog, news release, bylined commentary, video script, social media, PSAs, media advisories, guest editorials and web copy writing; general content editing
• Created the concept of Search Engine Engagement (rather than just SEO)
• Public relations team leadership and mentoring
• Leadership and team participation in senior management meetings, planning, strategy development and tactical execution
• Senior executive advice and counsel on personal and professional development

NEWS MEDIA LEADERSHIP

From 1974 to 1988, Bowen was a newspaper editor and reporter at dailies in Florida and Georgia and was a member of the Georgia State Capitol Press Corps covering the Georgia Legislature, politics and elections.

LITERARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Author of two illustrated children’s books now published and publicly available:
• Anne’s Forever Christmas Tree
• The Three Lines of Zaila
• Both adapted from his short, animated screenplays
• For the Love of Sky (manuscript completed)
• Nyra Helps with Your ABCs (outlined and being written now)
• Screenwriter who has completed the feature length scripts for the dramas:
• Cellblock Blue
• The Syracuse Incident
• Ghosts of Innocence
• Co-author of two business performance improvement books, Five Steps to Predictable Business Success and Lead and Manage.

OUTSIDE INTERESTS

• Bowen frequently speaks publicly on a presentation he developed entitled, Motivational Messaging for Leaders – How to Get to “Yes.”
• Through his church, Bowen is active with Meals on Wheels teams that deliver hot meals to shut ins in St. Petersburg. He frequently does this solo for homeless in the city.

ACADEMICS

While in Atlanta, Bowen was a frequent guest lecturer on public relations, media relations and crisis communications at the Roberto C. Goizueta School of Business at Emory University,  and also at his alma mater, the University of West Georgia. He holds the Associate Public Manager degree from the University of Georgia.

BOARD SERVICE

Bowen served on the board of the Georgia Justice Project in Atlanta and managed its public relations and public affairs campaigns designed to generate outside private funding.

CONTACT

E-mail ab@clearviewcom.com; andrew@writestar.pro; and jabowen46@gmail.com

Mobile: 404-822-3309

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jabowen2014/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/james.a.bowen.9/

www.clearviewcom.com

For more than 20 years, Clearview PR has collaborated with clients to provide market visibility that supports achievement of their business objectives

WHAT IS PUBLIC RELATIONS?

Public relations is the management function that develops mutually beneficial relationships between businesses, individuals or organizations and their target audiences. PR creates strategies and employs tactics designed to motivate target audiences to think, feel or act in a certain way.

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Clearview Communications and Public Relations/The Message Masters is a veteran owned, respected B2B consultancy known for successful, cost-effective public relations and media relations campaigns for a wide array of businesses and industries nationally.

SERVICES WE PROVIDE FOR YOU INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Professionally written and technically proficient news releases that generate views and hyperlink click-throughs for months after dissemination on a recognized wire service
• Professionally facilitated brainstorms for your brand messaging, key message and slogan development; mature brand evolution advice and counsel
• Collaboration on your objectives, strategy, tactics, timeline, staffing and PR campaign budget; program evaluation and impact measurement metrics
• Crisis and critical incident planning and response; reputation management strategies and tactics; crisis communications guidance and counsel
• Rigorous executive media interview and presentation skills development workshops
• Developing downloadable white papers, commentaries and research findings
• Employee relations, community relations, public affairs, investor relations support
• Various professional writing and editing services; speechwriting, video script writing, website and social media copywriting; assistance in graphic design, collateral copy writing and e-brochure development

Contact Andrew Bowen, APR

Clearview PR’s Founder and CEO

ab@clearviewcom.com

404-822-3309