Megan Mccourt Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Oversees multiple teams, 30+ people, three direct reports; currently serving as the North American PR lead for Philips. Previous clients include JPMorgan Chase, Lowe's, Johnson & Johnson, Ross, Lindt, JetBlue, Hershey's and Krispy Kreme, among others.• Develops and implements global and national communications strategies, creating 360-degree integration across all brand channels.• Spearheads creative strategic ideation and execution, brand messaging development, executive thought leadership, high-level client relations and counsel, media relations, event creation, strategic brand partnerships, influencer engagement, and interagency communications.• Serves as global lead across multinational campaigns for various clients and agency partners, streamlining processes and communications.• Works cross-functionally with legal, finance, HR, business units, MLR (medical, legal + regulatory), social teams, etc. to bring programs to life.• Leader for the FH Media + Platforms practice, hosting a weekly nationwide meeting to discuss trends, media happenings, platform updates and more. • Dedicated mentor and advisor for multiple direct reports, all junior staff, and Omnicom Omniwomen mentees. Teaches multiple courses on writing, pitching, finance and media relations.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

St. Louis, Mo, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Led a "Women in Business" hub, working with female-focused companies including L'Oreal and Olay, as well as with female entrepreneurs and thought leaders including Arianna Huffington and Thrive Global, and Sallie Krawcheck and Ellevest. Launched The Helm, a VC fund for women, and had the pleasure of media training Malala Yousafzai (founder of the Malala Fund and youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner), along with a host of founders and C-suite leaders.

New York, Ny, Us

Clients included: Arianna Huffington and Thrive Global, Sallie Krawcheck and Ellevest, Elizabeth Taylor (House of Taylor and The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation), L'Oreal, Absolut Art, The Helm, Fair, Dream Machine, and the George Kaiser Family Foundation/Tulsa, Oklahoma.

London, Gb

AxiCom is the agency of record for Dell, managing PR and comms across the board from enterprise and consumer technology to corporate social responsibility programs to executive thought leadership.• Drove Dell’s global brand strategy and PR, with a focus on entrepreneurs, small business, and diversity, managing a team of six across the country.• Executed global media strategy for the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) Summit and rollout of 2016 research on best cities for female entrepreneurs, resulting in 40 attending media, 220+ stories worldwide, and 50M+ social reach.• Ideated, wrote and launched a letter with policy recommendations to the presidential candidates that was signed by 84 CEOs and founders. Secured 37 articles, three speaking roles and a social reach of 86M+. • Organized and ran a series of #Circle dinners in New York, Chicago and San Francisco in conjunction with Vanity Fair and Deloitte that drew high-profile female entrepreneurs, policymakers and media to discuss the state of female entrepreneurship in America.• Created, managed and staffed press and speaking opportunities for Dell's Chief Customer Officer, Karen Quintos, and Dell's Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Elizabeth Gore.• Consistently secured top-tier media, such as ABC, MSNBC, Forbes, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Inc., Fast Company, USA Today, CNNMoney, etc.• Managed partnerships with organizations such as Microsoft, Girls Scouts of the USA, Northside, 1776, United Nations Foundation, Springboard, MORE, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Deloitte, and E&Y.• Wrote, pitched and placed contributed content pieces for C-suite Dell executives in top-tier publications.• Ideated, wrote and placed a series on "Entrepreneurship After the Election" with participation from California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, Rep. Will Hurd, Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert, and Lifeway CEO Julie Smolyansky. • Created and managed scopes of work and budgets of ~$1.25 million annually.

London, Gb

• Led large swaths of Dell's global brand PR including entrepreneurship (with a focus on women entrepreneurs), small business, and C-suite executive thought leadership.• Assisted on Dell's Enterprise Credibility account, supporting thought leadership on security, cloud, mobility, big data and Internet of Things (IoT) business units.• Championed Dell's #EntrepreneursUNite platform, supporting Michael Dell as the United Nation's global advocate for entrepreneurship in passing the UN Sustainable Development Goal 8 (decent work and economic growth). Secured 38 original articles, more than 60,000 signatures from entrepreneurs and business leaders, 20 strategic partnerships, and 1.2 billion instances of community participation.• Created, managed and staffed press and speaking opportunities for Dell's Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Elizabeth Gore, including the Fast Company Innovation Festival, Inc. Women's Summit and SXSW.• Ran regional events for the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) in New York and Washington, DC, bringing together high-profile female entrepreneurs and top tier media.• Consistently secured top-tier media, such as ABC, MSNBC, Forbes, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Inc., Fast Company, USA Today, CNNMoney, etc.• Planned and organized events for Dell, including facility selection, logistics, speakers, communications, talking points and press/analyst attendance.• Organized and ran events including the Dell 1-5-10 Series, a Policy Hackathon series, and the #DellLounge at SXSW in 2015.• Wrote, pitched and placed contributed content pieces in top-tier publications, including Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., Fortune, and Huffington Post.

New York, New York, Us

• Formulated PR plans for internal initiatives (fall recruitment and cookie season) and produced assets for multiple national campaigns.• Handled incoming PR requests by liaising with journalists, writing talking points, prepping CEO Anna Maria Chavez and staffing her during interviews. • Built foundational documents, like fact sheets, one pagers and press releases. Wrote blog posts, all-staff memos and official statements.• Created a spreadsheet of famous former Girl Scouts, and worked with an external agency to vet a list of 100 potential former Girl Scouts.

New York, Ny, Us

• Managed multiple accounts, including the American Homebrewers Association, Bee Raw honey, Reader’s Digest enthusiast brands, Taste of Home and BlackSocks.• Supported accounts including the Brewers Association, James Beard Foundation and the Geothermal Energy Association. • Garnered top-tier press hits for clients in The New York Times, Huffington Post, NPR, Yahoo! News, AP, Bloomberg Businessweek, Business Insider and more.• Launched a "Save the Bees" campaign for Bee Raw honey that got tweets from Samuel L. Jackson, Mario Batali and Christy Turlington.• Created a social media strategy plan for Bee Raw to increase engagement, and wrote all social media content for multiple platforms.• Helped organize, publicize and run a number of events, including the International Geothermal Energy Finance Forum, the James Beard Foundation Women in Whites Gala, and the Custom Content Council Pearl Awards.• Designed and publicized multiple social media contests for magazine brands, drawing an average of 3,000 entries per contest.• Provided media training to clients for print and broadcast interviews. Wrote a primer of interview basics and hosted in-person training.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Managed multiple social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Quora and Foursquare.• Engaged and built online communities. Ran a Twitter with a following of more than 275,000 and quadrupled the Facebook fan base to more than 16,000 in six months.• Wrote and posted all content across each platform, including an average of 150 tweets per day and 15 Facebook posts per day.• Developed connections with and pitched bloggers in the political sphere to get stories placed in order to increase reach and viewership.• Tracked analytics using HootSuite, Buffer, Crowdbooster, Facebook Analytics and Google Analytics. Made weekly and monthly reports.• Covered parties, events, receptions and celebrity appearances in D.C. by taking pictures, finding scoops and writing articles.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Wrote speeches, Op-Eds, talking points, “Dear Colleague” letters, memos, constituent letters, blog posts, and composed a 200-page intern handbook.• Generated a press packet for a STEM education bill, including a press release, fact sheet, summary of endorsements, Op-Ed and blog post.• Compiled press clips, staffed the congressman, attended hearings, analyzed research, booked tours, answered phones and sorted mail.• One of 23 in a program run by Sylvia and Leon Panetta through the Panetta Institute for Public Policy; attended weekly lectures with D.C.’s top politicians, journalists and lobbyists.

Chico, Ca, Us

• Established PR internship program for the College of Communication and Education. • Hired and supervised a junior intern.• Wrote stories about interesting things occurring in all departments and had them placed in the School of Education newsletter and The Orion.• Designed and wrote a brochure explaining the School of Education's teaching credential options.

Chico, Ca, Us

Served as General Manager for Spring 2011 semester:• Managed 20 consultants and oversaw nine accounts in the student-run public relations agency.• Coordinated and ran weekly agency meetings, reorganized the office and monitored all agency activity.• Redesigned Chico State’s student Web portal and created a PDF “Guide to Success” in an effort to help students graduate on time.• Communicated between all levels, positions and teams.Served as Editorial Director for Fall 2010 semester:• Edited all agency generated work before it went to clients, print or the Web.• Taught weekly writing workshops.• Coached agency staff on grammar, AP style, story structure and lead writing.• Worked as an account executive for the College of Communication and Education account. Wrote and edited stories, aided in design and communicated directly with the clients.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Pitched regional and national publications, landing print, broadcast, web and radio hits.• Helped build, distribute and administer a nationwide survey; collected data.• Wrote an issue of the company newsletter and ghostwrote a published article.• Compiled media results from media monitoring.

• Wrote for a national online news wire, covering the country’s capital. Followed Supreme Court cases, protests, the State Department and more. • Shot, edited and uploaded videos; took photos; designed charts and sidebars for stories. • Uploaded everything to the Web and promoted with social media.

• Followed breaking news for Chico's daily paper. • Unearthed many local in-depth feature stories. • Wrote pieces on short deadlines and covered a wide variety of issues. • Responsible for some photography.

Ba, Journalism, Public Relations, News-Editorial, Political Science

Aa, Liberal Arts, Journalism