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Our firm was founded in 1987 as Tarkenton & Addams, Inc. Although
we have changed our name, we still call on entrepreneur and
NFL Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton as a consultant to clients
as needed. For additional services, such as specialized
research, video production and graphics design, we have a network
of providers who have earned our trust in their service, quality,
and reliability during our seventeen years of operations.
Jeannine Addams
Ms. Addams, president and owner of J. Addams & Partners, Inc.,
has more than 25 years experience in public relations and marketing
communications. In addition to public relations, she has
an extensive background in TV and radio production.
Before starting the firm, she was vice-president and group manager
of the Business-to-Business unit of Atlanta-based Cohn & Wolfe,
a Burson-Marsteller company, where she led the agency’s activities
for a number of corporate clients, including architect/ developer
John Portman and the Portman Companies, the Atlanta Chamber
of Commerce, and Dornier Medical Systems.
Ms. Addams also was vice president with Carl Byoir & Associates,
where she held executive-level responsibility for national business
accounts including Kodak, Honeywell, The American Bankers' Association
and The Road Information Program.
Prior to relocating to Atlanta, she was a television and radio
producer at KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh and WTTG-TV in Washington,
D.C.; news bureau director for Georgetown University in Washington
and creative services director for Frank N. Magid Associates,
the country's largest provider of market research and consulting
for the news broadcasting and newspaper publishing industries.
In addition, Ms. Addams served on the public affairs staff of
Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh and worked
on the campaign press staff of then-U.S. Senator J. Glenn Beall
Jr. of Maryland. She is president of the non-profit
CURE Childhood Cancer, Inc., which provides support services
for children with cancer and their families. For her work with
CURE, she was named as one of Atlanta’s Women of Distinction
in 2000.
Ms. Addams is a co-author of Unexpected Chaos, and Preventing
a Crisis, on fashioning communications strategies that produce
results during “normal” periods but also protect an organization
when survival may be in doubt. She is a recognized expert in
crisis management.
Jeannine has been a guest lecturer at Emory University in Atlanta;
she also conducts media training and speech and presentation
skills coaching for a number of clients.
She is married to writer Robert Coram (www.robertcoram.com),
who is working on his 12th book.
Gail Davidson
Gail Davidson has been involved in communications, specializing
in sales and customer service, for 25 years. Her career has
been focused in the publishing and food services industries
and in community service.
Gail is responsible for the agency's research and database management
services. She manages our Nexis-Lexis account, performs Bacon’s
searches (for media contact information), and conducts Web searches.
She also assists in development of marketing plans both for
clients and for J. Addams & Partners.
She worked for the southeast division of Carnation Foods, serving
first as key account representative, and later as senior account
manager in the company's grocery products division. Her largest
account was Kroger, which produced billings of $30 million annually
for Carnation. Most recently she served as a director and full
service event planner for corporate and private events for a
catering company.
She was also head of advertising sales at Buckhead Publishing
Company and sold printed business products for Data Management
Associates.
Gail has a strong portfolio of volunteer work for community
service organizations. She served as a board member of Our Lady
of Assumption Catholic School and St. Pius Catholic High School
and of the Lion Pride Foundation. She also volunteers for a
number of neighborhood associations and athletic organizations,
where over the years, she has served as president and committee
chair for various different committees, including civic affairs,
fund-raising, buildings and grounds committees.
Chet Richards
Dr. Richards joined the agency in 2001, bringing more than 30
years of experience in marketing and military strategy. He specializes
in application of the strategy developed by the late USAF Colonel
John R. Boyd to enable organizations to shape their environments
to increase revenue, market share, and profitability.
As he writes in a J. Addams & Partners
White
Paper, "communications—within the firm and with current
and potential customers—is essential to building the mutual
trust that forms a key part of Boyd's strategy."
Chet owns and edits the web site Modern Business Strategy,
which was selected by the Harvard Business School’s Working
Knowledge as a featured site for leadership and strategy.
The content from that site is now incorporated into his personal
blog at http://www.chetrichards.com,
where he also covers applications of of Boyd's strategy to business.
He is also the founder and editor of Defense and the National
Interest,
http://www.d-n-i.net, which has twice been named as one
of the top defense sites on the Web by the prestigious National
Journal.
Beginning his career in the Pentagon, Chet has also worked or
consulted for Northrop-Grumman, Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Navy
and Air Force, the SHAPE Technical Center, SAIC, CACI, the Office
of the Secretary of Defense, the National Academies of Science,
and several other government and non-profit agencies. His op-eds
and quotes have appeared in publications ranging from Fast
Company to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and
the New York Times. His latest book on national ssecurity,
If We Can Keep It, was published in January 2008 by the
World Security Institutes in Washington, DC, and his book for
business,
Certain to Win, was published in June 2004.
Dr. Richards holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and is a retired colonel
in the U.S. Air Force, where he was the Air Attaché (Reserve)
to Saudi Arabia. He maintains an active interest in the
Middle East and some fluency in Arabic. He is Adjunct Professor
of Strategy and Quantitative Methods at Kennesaw State University
in suburban Atlanta, Georgia.
Kristin M. Wohlleben
Ms. Wohlleben has more than a dozen years of experience in strategic
communications program development and implementation.
She has been our lead account executive and manager for a number
of publicly-traded global corporations. She is currently
responsible for coordinating public relations support for Honda
Power Equipment, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of
outdoor power equipment.
She writes and develops client communication strategies; manages
the writing, design, and production of brochures, ads, direct
mail pieces, white papers, newsletters, logos and other collateral
materials as well as directs photo shoots, video production,
and editing.
Ms. Wohlleben conducts interview and media training for a number
of clients. She has coauthored media training and speech
presentation skills coaching manuals, and is a co-author of
Unexpected Chaos, and Preventing a Crisis.
Kristin is active in local community and charitable affairs.
In 1996, she served as an advisor to the election committee
for District Attorney of Fulton County. She is an officer
and member of the board of directors of
CURE Childhood Cancer, Inc., where she currently serves
as its general secretary.
Ms. Wohlleben holds degrees in both visual arts and design.
Her postgraduate work also focused on copywriting and advertising
strategy.
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