Adam P. Nelson Email & Phone Number

Rockville, MD, US

OOVOS Consulting is a Leadership and Performance Coaching firm that specializes in empowering public affairs professionals and leaders to reach their full potential. Through customized coaching programs, OOVOS helps clients develop leadership skills, enhance performance, and navigate complex organizational challenges, with a focus on strategic growth and.

Taking time away to focus on my children.

• Scope: Served as primary contact for billing and association communications
• Social Media: Maintained and grew social media presence; launched social media strategy increasing communications reach
• Facebook: Increased Facebook likes by 36% in less than 1 year; cultivated daily posts to increase reach and advertise local business opportunities and events; month over month increased in Facebook reach
• Website: Maintained website ensuring current information updated regularly; massaged graphics; enabled links and forms

Rockville, Maryland, US

• Scope: During a time of significant industry change, provided leadership and revitalized AACS’ executive functions, refined member benefits, and expanded communication strategies to successfully engage members in new.
• Congressional Lobbying: Lobbied members of crucial Congressional and Committee Staff on essential issues of Association
• Partnership Agreements: Managed Industry Partnership Agreements increasing revenue by $600K
• Budgeting: Managed strategic direction of Association’s $2M+ budget including creating plan
• Communications: Restructured member communications promoting readability; advanced professionalism and facilitated discussions on critical industry-based topics increasing open rates from 14% to 25%
• Educational Webinar: Effectively launched new educational webinar series averaging 200 participants per webinar

• Scope: Create impactful and sustainable government affairs programs for corporate and nonprofit clients.
• Campaign Organization: Organized an executive 'boots on the ground' public health education campaign, targeting key East Coast states for Americans Allied for Jobs & Security
• Team Leadership: Managed multiple teams increasing public awareness of medical waste disposal
• WordPress Website Management: Planned and coded WordPress web platform for client’s Political Action Committee (PAC); built to Federal Election Commission (FEC) requirements (Alpha Natural Resources)
• Grassroots Recruitment: Designed grassroots recruitment materials for North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

Alexandria, VA, US

• Scope: Lobbied for AMCP on Capitol Hill and in related public policy forums to advance its advocacy agenda.
• Lobbying: Lobbied Members of Congress, critical Congressional and Committee Staff on issues of importance to AMCP
• Written Persuasion: Crafted comment letters and white papers on critical topics for Congressional and Agency audiences
• Advocacy Initiatives: Developed and executed advocacy initiatives to influence legislative outcomes; developed position statements, policy analysis, official comment letters, grassroots outreach; organized annual.

• Scope: Directed all aspects of DMA’s political outreach, including Political Action Committee, Direct Voice Political Action Committee (Direct Voice PAC), and DMA Action, DMA's Grassroots advocacy program.
• Rebranding Strategy: Developed and implemented rebranding strategy successfully position Direct Voice PAC and DMA Action as part of an overall education and recruitment campaign
• Website Design: Designed and programmed Direct Voice PAC website (www.directvoicepac.com)
• FEC Compliance: Initiated and completed a 3-year internal Direct Voice PAC audit ensuring FEC compliance
• Building Participation: Directed PAC campaign resulting in 110% increase in participation, 20% increase in 2013 receipts

St. Louis, MO, US

• Scope: Identified, negotiated, and transitioned new external political CRM software vendor focusing employee outreach efforts; raised awareness of legislative and regulatory policy through company’s PAC and grassroots.
• Political Engagement: Increased employee political engagement response rate by 40%.
• Behemoth PAC Management: Managed one of the largest Pharmacy Benefit Management corporate PACs in US reporting approximately $800,000 per cycle; increased operational excellence of the PAC
• Written Communications: Crafted weekly and quarterly executive newsletters and other publications promoting cross-functional understanding of political issues

• Scope: Managed daily public affairs and legal/financial compliance activities of largest US corporate utility PAC, consistently reporting $1.8 million per political cycle.
• Grassroots Outreach: Led all grassroots outreach development promoting Exelon’s public policy positions
• Vendor Relationships: Managed all external vendor relationships ensuring deliverables executed on time
• Leadership: Led a 30+ member team across broad corporate disciplines and subsidiaries developing engagement of 350,000 stakeholders
• Pass Legislation: Key promoter influencing passage of legislation on expiring dividend tax cuts. (signed in into Law by President Bush 2006; President Obama in 2010)
• Campaign Success: Campaign (2010) generated 14% response rate with more than 44,000 stakeholders contacting Congress

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