JEAN GONSOULIN is a seasoned communications strategist with more than 25 years in public relations, marketing and corporate communications split between the agency arena and the corporate sector. Her experience crosses a wide range of industries and her expertise is drawn from counseling corporate leaders at some of the most dynamic companies in the world. Among the practice areas in which she excels are strategic planning, message development and brand positioning, crisis and reputation management, stakeholder communications, and executive visibility.
As president of The Gonsoulin Group, with a presence in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Jean works with clients across a broad spectrum of industries and nonprofit organizations. In the corporate area, she counsels leading companies in technology, energy, health care, real estate, financial services, legal and other professional services, telecommunications, manufacturing, and more. In the nonprofit world, she works with organizations from academia to government agencies to social impact organizations.
She has extensive experience training spokespersons and other communicators within an organization to deliver not only information, but the key messages that are critical to understanding and acceptance. Among her areas of training skills specialization are presentations, media interviews, message delivery and coaching executives. She has worked with health care organizations, academic institutions, law firms, consumer products companies, energy companies, government entities and a host of other individuals and businesses.
She has served on the boards of directors for both the Houston and Los Angeles chapters of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), where she held several committee chairmanships, and the Texas Public Relations Association, where she chaired the annual awards program for five years. In San Francisco, she is a member of PRSA, San Francisco PR Round Table, PR Divas, Women in Consulting and the National Association of Women Business Owners, and she is a past board member of Market Street Railway. She has won numerous awards for excellence in the public relations field through the years and has spoken in a number of academic and professional forums, as well as authored articles, on crisis communications and issues management.