International Women’s Day: Women at Agility PR Solutions Share Their Thoughts
On International Women’s Day we celebrate and recognize the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women and girls around the world. In addition to celebrating these achievements, we also recognize the ongoing work necessary to achieve women’s...
PR Profiles, Episode 9: A Conversation with Pragya Dubey, Vice President of Global Services at Agility PR Solutions
Pragya Dubey, Vice President of Global Services & Media Analytics at Agility PR Solutions could have been an astrophysicist. Upon graduating with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Mumbai, Pragya had a decision to make: pursue an MBA or pursue an MSc...
Prepare. Respond. Resolve: Learn from World-Class Experts at the 2022 Crisis Comms Mastery Virtual Summit
Our second annual Crisis Comms Mastery virtual summit is happening later this month on March 24-26. Keynote Molly McPherson, APR, crisis comms expert and author of Indestructible: Reclaim Control and Respond with Confidence in a Media Crisis headlines this special...
PR Profiles, Episode 8: A Conversation with Abbi Whitaker, President of The Abbi Agency
“The best thing about being in PR is you can change the conversation,” says Abbi Whitaker, President of The Abbi Agency in Reno, Nevada. Recognized as a 2020 Top Woman in PR by PRNEWS, Abbi started her agency almost 14 years ago after noticing a void for “really...
#CES2022: Who earned the most CES buzz on Twitter?
CES, “the most influential tech event in the world”, attracts tens of thousands of attendees and a whole lot of attention every year. Since 1967, the Consumer Technology Association event has been the launching pad for many exciting innovations which have...
PR Profiles, Episode 7: A Conversation with Karen Swim, Founder of Words for Hire and President of Solo PR Pro
Karen Swim is a true PR powerhouse, no doubt about it. Not only does she run her successful virtual agency, Words for Hire, but she also has, “the joy and pleasure of leading a professional organization for independent PR practitioners” called Solo PR Pro. For her,...
PR Profiles, Episode 6: A Conversation with Brian Hart, Founder and President of Flackable
“I started my career in the boiler room of a small financial services practice making over a hundred cold calls most days,” says Brian Hart, the founder of Flackable, an award-winning PR agency in Philadelphia. For a recent college grad who had just interned at a...
Pulling it all together: How Agility helps its pharmaceutical client share communications success in a single dashboard
Agility PR Solutions’ client is a multibillion-dollar global pharmaceutical brand with a goal to produce reliable and innovative products. Since 2014, Agility has supported the North American branch of this company by providing personalized media intelligence services...
Old fashioned values, modern outcomes: How Agility helps NewmanPR provide top results for its clients
NewmanPR is a Florida-based agency founded in 1946 by the late Stuart Newman. The agency provides media relations, public relations, crisis communications, social media, and marketing services to its clients in the maritime, leisure travel, and cruise line industries....
PR Profiles, Episode 5: A Conversation with 2022 PRSA Chair-Elect Michelle Egan
“When I was a kid, I would go to the library and get stuck in there,” says Michelle Egan from her office in Anchorage, Alaska. “Not because I would sit down and read a book, but because I would go from section to section, learn a little something about each and...
PR Profiles, Episode 4: A Conversation with Annie Scranton, Founder and President of Pace Public Relations
“It’s been ingrained in me to watch the news early in the morning,” says Annie Scranton, founder and president of Pace Public Relations and host of the PR Pace podcast. “Without reading and consuming the news voraciously I wouldn’t be able to do my job.” Before she...
PR Profiles, Episode 3: A Conversation with Melissa Agnes, Founder and CEO of the Crisis Ready Institute
“My story is a story,” says Melissa Agnes with a laugh, recalling how she, an entrepreneur since she was 21, got into crisis communications. Thirteen years ago, Melissa had no idea she would one day be an expert in crisis comms—or that it was even a field she could...
PR Profiles, Episode 2: A Conversation with David Landis, President of Landis Communications Inc.
Before he was the president of a successful PR agency celebrating 30 years in San Francisco, David Landis was a classical pianist. It seems only right then that some of Landis Communications Inc. (LCI)’s first clients were in the entertainment industry. While the...
PR Profiles, Episode 1: A Conversation with Gini Dietrich, CEO of Spin Sucks
Gini Dietrich has been part of a lot of PR projects, but she may be best known for the PESO model and Spin Sucks, a blog, podcast and book. Spin Sucks was launched as an experimental agency blog for Arment Dietrich back in 2006, but quickly progressed from agency blog...