Ken Jacobs, Principal, Jacobs Consulting & Executive Coaching

Ken Jacobs, Principal, Jacobs Consulting & Executive Coaching Ken Jacobs is the principal of Jacobs Consulting & Executive Coaching, which helps empower public relations and communications agency owners, CEOs, and senior leaders achieve and surpass their organizational, career, and personal goals by becoming more inspiring, inspired, and effective leaders. It does so via leadership coaching. His company also helps PR, integrated communications, marketing and advertising agencies grow business, manage for profitability, improve client service, and enhance team performance, communications and leadership skills. It does so via training and consulting. Prior to launching his companies, Jacobs spent 25 years in management and leadership positions with a number of PR agencies, including Ogilvy & Mather PR, Maloney & Fox (a division of WE), Lippe Taylor, and Marina Maher Communications (MMC), where he founded the agency’s training program, “MMC Masters,” which was cited for excellence by The Holmes Report. While at each firm Jacobs served on the agency senior leadership group, responsible for such critical areas as client service, professional development, business development, and agency marketing. Jacobs shares his insights via “Taking the Lead,” the quarterly leadership column in PRSA’s Strategies & Tactics and the similarly named video podcast on his website, where he discusses leadership with some of the industry’s most respected leaders: https://www.jacobscomm.com/taking-the-lead/ Jacobs also writes about leadership for Ragan’s PR Daily and the O’Dwyer’s PR Newsletter. He presents regularly on leadership, new business, and client service at PRSA Counselors Academy Spring Conference and various PRSA chapters, and has presented on leadership for agency and corporate senior leaders at the Florida PR Association (FPRA), The Public Relations Global Network (PRGN), Taan Worldwide (the global network of independent communications agencies), and IABC NJ and Philadelphia Jacobs sits on the board of PRSA Tri-State District and served on the board of PRSA NJ from 2013 to 2022, where he led the Senior Professionals Group. Previously, he served on the board of the International Coach Federation (ICF) of New Jersey. Jacobs, who launched his training, consulting, and coaching business in 2007, holds Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentials from the International Coach Federation (ICF), and is accredited as a Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner and a COR.E Leadership Dynamics Specialist by the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobsconsultingcoaching/ https://www.facebook.com/JacobsConsultingAndExecutiveCoaching https://twitter.com/kensviews?lang=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices