A seasoned communications strategist, Steve Alexander was voted “50 People to Watch” by San Diego Magazine. He provides public affairs consultation in strategic communications, media relations and crisis communications, facilitation, training and team building and meeting management, with unique expertise in collaborative decision-making and consensus building. He media trains leaders throughout the country. As former Burson-Marsteller regional director, the world’s largest public relations firm, he built the market in San Diego and worked with worldwide projects. He has facilitated such challenging public projects as the San Diego State University Aztec Identity Task Force, Alliance Healthcare Foundations’ uninsured program, the Naval Training Center visioning project and planning for the San Diego Regional Airport Authority. He directed projects for QUALCOMM, Scripps Health, The Nature Conservancy, UC San Diego, the cities of Coronado, San Diego and Del Mar, LEAD San Diego, Callaway Golf, Monterey Bay Aquarium, The Big Sur Land Trust, and Father Joe’s Villages. He served as a gubernatorial appointee as president of the California Medical Board and chairman of the state’s regulatory board for the behavioral sciences. He has extensive knowledge of government and consumer regulation issues and board management and training. He has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in the behavioral sciences and experience as a counselor, facilitator, focus group leader and trainer. He has facilitated numerous public and private meetings for groups, organizations and governmental bodies, and conducted focus groups on a variety of topics. As a licensed marriage and family therapist, he honed his communications and facilitation skills and mediation background and applies these talents to facilitation and strategic communications in public relations. He is a member of the International Association of Facilitators, the International Association of Public Participation.

Managed the regional market in San Diego

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