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About Adams Comms

Adams Comms is a communications consultancy that focuses on developing communication approaches and strategies for organizations that want to leverage communications to tell their story, build and protect reputations and create differentiation and thought leadership.

About Naomi Adams

With a strong business and strategic background, Naomi is a seasoned communications counselor with more than 25+ years in developing innovative communication strategies that help drive business growth, enhance brand recognition, and build and protect reputations. She excels at distilling the complex and using narrative storytelling to create context and help audiences understand the why. Naomi is a player/coach with broad experience across sectors and verticals. She is experienced in navigating highly regulated landscapes and complex organizations, and is focused on using communications to create value by prioritizing the activities and programs that create impact for clients. She works with communicators to understand and speak the language of business, and helps business partners understand the value of communications via communications programs that support business goals.

 

Naomi has deep experience in content and channel strategy, strategic communications, integrated marketing, and public relations with a proven track record of shaping impactful narratives and building strong relationships with media and other stakeholders, using communications as a tool to drive positive change.   ​

Naomi is a collaborator, storyteller, synthesizer, and consensus builder. She is skilled at communication strategy and planning, message platform development, issues/reputation management, and thought leadership activities. Expertise includes corporate, consumer, healthcare and non-profit sectors, and has worked in both in-house, and agency environments. She is experienced at leading and managing teams, programs and engagements including oversight of stakeholders, resources, vendors, and budgets.

 

With more than 20 years of agency experience at global holding companies and independent agencies, and spent five years in-house, Naomi uses her expertise and insights to guide and counsel clients so they can navigate their marketing and communications challenges. 

 

Naomi is an award-winning and recognized industry professional. She and her teams have won PR Week, PR News and Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) industry awards. Prior, she served on the Board of Directors at PRSA Memphis and was recognized by the PRSA Memphis as PR Executive of the Year. She was also named to the Memphis Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 for her leadership in communications.​

 

Naomi is the immediate past president of PRSA Chicago, and she currently sits on the PRSA Chicago executive committee.

As a strategic communicator, she is deeply invested in leveraging communications for purpose-driven work and serves on the PRWeek’s Purpose Council. Naomi holds a MBA with a focus on marketing, digital, and innovation from the University of Illinois Gies College of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Advertising and Communications from the University of Illinois College of Media.

Naomi is an avid, if not speedy runner. She credits distance running for building grit, persistence and time during which she can listen to podcast and music. She's currently pursuing her World Marathon Majors Six Star Journey, and has run more than 23 marathons, including Boston, Berlin, Chicago, New York and Paris.

 

Learn more about Naomi here:  LinkedIn 

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ABOUT ADAMS COMMS

Adams Comms is a communications consultancy that focuses on helping brands 

For more than 25 years, Naomi Adams has had the honor of helping brands and organizations from startups, non-profits, mid-sized businesses to Fortune 50 companies hone their messages and develop integrated communications programs rooted in strategic communications that achieve results and imp

With a strong business and strategic background, Naomi is a seasoned communications counselor with more than 25+ years in developing innovative communication strategies that help drive business growth, enhance brand recognition, and build and protect reputations. She excels at distilling the complex and using narrative storytelling to create context and help audiences understand the why. Naomi is a player/coach with broad experience across sectors and verticals. She is experienced in navigating highly regulated landscapes and complex organizations, and is focused on using communications to create value by prioritizing the activities and programs that create impact for clients. She works with communicators to understand and speak the language of business, and helps business partners understand the value of communications via communications programs that support business goals.

 

Naomi is a collaborator, storyteller, synthesizer, and consensus builder. She is skilled at communication strategy and planning, message platform development, issues/reputation management, and thought leadership activities. Expertise includes corporate, consumer, healthcare and non-profit sectors, and has worked in both in-house, and agency environments. She is experienced at leading and managing teams, programs and engagements including oversight of stakeholders, resources, vendors, and budgets.

 

After more than 20 years of agency experience, and five year in-house, Naomi uses her expertise and insights to guide and counsel clients so they can navigate their marketing and communications challenges. As the founder of Adams Comms, she’s invested in her client’s success, and builds the right teams and resources for each client engagement. 

 

Naomi and her teams have been PR industry award winners, and Naomi has personally been recognized as the PRSA Memphis Executive of the Year and was a Memphis Business Journal 40 under 40. She has served on the board of directors in both Chicago and Memphis, and was PRSA Chicago chapter president, and currently sits on the PRSA Chicago executive committee.

 

Learn more about Naomi here:  LinkedIn 

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