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Alan has over 30 years of consulting and corporate experience in developing and executing marketing and educational strategies for both internal and external audiences. Before starting The Concepts Group, he served as the EVP and COO of an AT&T subsidiary, which was sold to Aon Corporation where he became Vice Chairman of Aon Consulting’s National Communication Consulting Practice. Alan also was a Principal and Communication Practice Leader in the New York offices of Mercer Consulting and has worked at Citibank, where his duties included world wide communications dealing with a wide range of global HR topics/issues.
Alan has helped clients with a wide range of projects, including: global communication strategies, focus groups and surveys (print and web-based), educational and interactive training programs, development and management of wellness education-based programs, marketing of health care programs and products, change management, benefit plan changes and new plan introductions, retiree communications, investor education and retirement planning, product/corporate advertising, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, annual reports, investor relations, financial and other consumer product introductions and re-launches, relocation, etc. He is facile in all media, including interactive web-based programs.
His clients include: Abbott Laboratories, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Avaya, Teva Neurological, Aventis, H&R Block Financial Advisors, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Barclays Global Investors, Prudential Securities, J.P. Morgan Chase, J.P. Morgan Investment Management, Citibank, White & Case, Kimberly-Clark, GatesMcDonald, The New York Hospital, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital, Westchester Medical Center, The Hospital for Special Surgery, The Pennsylvania Employee Retirement System (PSERS), The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Unilever, Continental Airlines, Entergy, John Deere, Mars Incorporated, SNET, ITT’s International Corporate Marketing Group, Headway Corporate Resources, Fortune Brands, Lowenstein, Sandler, Kramer Levin, and Aon, Inc.
Over the years, Alan has led teams that have won over 160 awards for excellence – including 6 Gold Quills, 12 Silver Quills and over 30 ACE/Iris awards from the International Association of Business Communicators, Business Insurance as well as an ARC (annual report competition) and 15 APEX writing awards.
Alan holds a BS (cum laude) in Journalism from the University of Florida and an MS in Communications from Boston University’s College of Communications.
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