Michael Adams Email & Phone Number

Wilmette, Il, Us

Greater Chicago Area

Resource Development: Connect faith communities and their members throughout northern Illinois to ChildServ's mission (to help at-risk kids and their families to build, achieve and sustain better lives). Grew faith community financial support >50% FY2010 vs FY2009 and then 36% FY2011 vs FY2010. Present mission and social justice opportunities to more than 5,000 individuals in small group presentations each year. Connect multiple times each year with clergy and lay leaders of more than 400 local churches in northern Illinois. Significant success soliciting grant support from national agencies and boards of multiple denominations.Lead the agency in public policy advocacy. Primary liaison with advocacy partners and coordinator of staff and volunteer engagement in advocacy. Cultivate relationships with decision-makers and manage outreach for grass-roots support. Extensive expertise in State budget issues and processes. Extensive use of social media to effect policy change and to build affinity for ChildServ.

Evanston, Il

Created government practice for internationally networked multi-media translation agency. Won major accounts with Cook County and Chicago agencies. Led quality control upgrades to satisfy government clients.

Deerfield, Il

Marketing team manager for this Section 529 Prepaid Tuition Program marketed and managed by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission. Overhauled marketing (positioning, media, collateral and sales) to compete more effectively with 529 college savings programs. $116 in marketing netted $10,000 investment. Introduced on-line marketing, outreach to financial advisors and highly successful media relations program, including endorsements by key consumer advisors. Numerous PR and Marketing Awards.

New York, New York

Senior trouble-shooter for international accounts management. Enabled staff in multiple far-east offices to salvage 7-country market research project and leveraged client relationship into additional business development projects international and domestic.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Built #1-ranked (by Ad Age) agency in Russia from start-up. Many firsts in market. Built outstanding local staff of 40 trained to provide advertising, PR, market research and business development consulting. Extensive and productive government, media and civic relationships (throughout the former Soviet Union). Primary role in small-scale privatization.

Chicago, Illinois

Saved, won re-bid and managed multi-year $1.5 million grass-roots program to effect federal policy changes (in financial services). Trained account teams to market and service highly profitable crisis communications services; 36 successful assignments in four years (special expertise in labor relations/collective bargaining, product tampering and litigation support).

Elk Grove Village, Il

Implemented formal issues management process to support planning by Corporate Management Committee. Led multi-department planning teams

Chicago, Il

Provided intelligence and insight for public and government affairs. Developed and delivered executive management training program in futures research.

Washington, D.C.

Federal clients: energy, environment and intelligence. Won $1.5 million contract and led research teams supporting technology forecasting/assessment to support commercialization of new energy and environmental control technologies. Provided intelligence gathering and analyses for diplomatic mission planning.

Master Of Arts In Law & Diplomacy (Mald), Political Theory, American Diplomatic History, International Security Studies, 3.3

Certified Professional Proficiency in Russian

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Russian Language And Literature/Soviet Area Studies, 3.5

Earl Latham Congressional Intern - 1975 Tripartite Participant (American Friends Service Committee) in Minsk, Vilnius and Moscow 1974