Jim Lukaszewski

For 46 years, Lukaszewski has helped troubled leaders in organizations large and small. He speaks to and reaches thousands of PR professionals and leaders monthly through his various publications, newsletters, and webinars, through a wide variety of local, statewide, national, and international organizations and associations. His goal is to help managers build, rebuild or reestablish trust in adversely affected organizations, their cultures and the communities affected.

From the C-suite to entry-level professionals, Jim is known for his sensible, constructive, and principled perspectives on corporate communications and serious institutional issues. His highly focused and actionable approaches to reducing crises make Jim's ideas, strategies, and concepts for action permanent resources for those who hear him and work with him.

His diverse audiences include professional communicators, business groups, state and federal government agencies at all levels, U.S. military services, DINFOS, and intelligence agencies, law enforcement, chemical industries, trade and professional associations, large businesses, extractive industries, transportation, healthcare and insurance groups, academia and more.

Lukaszewski has spent his career counseling leaders of all types who face challenging situations that often involve conflict, controversy, community action, activist opposition, and their own professional survival.

Throughout his career, beginning in 1974, Lukaszewski's skills, knowledge, ability and professional leadership have been recognized continuously. An accredited member and fellow of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), he served for 22 years on the PRSA's Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS) and is now its first Emeritus member.

He was an adjunct associate professor of business management and communications in the Marketing and Management Institute of the New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and a guest lecturer at Columbia University. He is the recipient of both Ball State University's National Public Relations Achievement Award and the Patrick Jackson Award for Distinguished Service to PRSA. He is also recognized by the Public Affairs, Government and Military Section of PRSA with the Lloyd B. Dennis Award. He is recognized by PR News and Trust Across America with both organizations' respective Lifetime Achievement Awards. He has also been inducted into the Ball State University Public Relations Hall of Fame.

He served as a crisis communications advisor to the International Disaster Advisory Committee, Agency for International Development, and Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, early in his career. He was a civilian advisor to the United States Marine Corps and he lectured annually at their East Coast Commander's Media Training Symposium from 1987-2009. He was also a participant for many years in the Brigadier General Selectee Orientation Conference.

His biography has appeared in more than 30 editions of various Who's Who annual editions; he has been recognized for lifetime achievement in his profession by many of the major public relations organizations in the United States. His 15 books and hundreds of articles, monographs, and dozens of webinars have informed the public relations profession for decades. Wherever you study public relations on the planet, you'll read something or see something from or by Jim Lukaszewski.