Dougherty DialecticPurposeThe job of the modern executive, increasingly, is advocacy. Business leaders must through their written and spoken communications deliver messages that can be easily understood, accepted and spur audiences to action. That’s where we come in. We are communications strategists who for more than two decades have been helping Fortune 500 clients formulate and communicate their “story” to customers and prospects, investors, news media, employees, business partners, regulators, elected officials, judges, and jurors. |
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Practice AreasWritingWe are the bridge between corporations and the audiences executives must persuade. Boutique writing services include:
Speech WritingSpeech writing is a core service of the firm. We specialize in keynote speeches for elected officials, Fortune 500 CEOs and top execs, heads of Washington-based trade associations and nonprofit leaders. The firm’s speech writing capabilities received a strong 3rd party endorsement in 2017, and again in 2018, when the publishers of Vital Speeches of the Day magazine awarded Jack Dougherty a “Cicero Award,” speech writing’s highest honor, for what was judged to be the best speech given in 2016 on Corporate Social Responsibility issues and the best speech given in 2017 on News Media issues, respectively. (Click here to see the winning 2016 speech, written for PepsiCo Vice Chairman Dr. Mehmood Khan. Scroll to p.25. Click here to see the winning 2017 speech, written for Susan Goldberg, Editorial Director, National Geographic Partners and Editor in Chief of National Geographic Magazine. [Scroll to p.17.]) Below is a list of former and current speech writing clients: |
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Editor in Chief & Editorial Director, National Geographic Magazine/ National Geographic Partners |
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Board Chair, Society for Human Resource Management |
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Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer of Global R&D, PepsiCo. |
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VP, R&D, Quaker Foods North America, PepsiCo. |
Chairman and CEO, General Electric |
Chief Marketing Officer, General Electric |
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VP, Corporate Communications, General Electric |
Global Executive Director of Advertising and Branding, General Electric |
Chairman and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America |
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President, North America, William Wrigley Jr. Co. |
Chairman and CEO, Anheuser-Busch Cos. |
President, Anheuser-Busch Cos. |
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EVP, Corporate Communications and Marketing, Anheuser-Busch Cos. |
Chief Communications Officer, Anheuser-Busch Cos. |
Chief Marketing Officer, Anheuser-Busch Cos. |
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VP, Sales Development and Community Affairs, Anheuser-Busch Cos. |
VP Corporate Communications, Anheuser-Busch Cos. |
General Counsel, Anheuser-Busch Cos. |
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VP, Consumer Affairs, Anheuser-Busch Cos. |
President, US-India Business Council | Chairman and CEO, Washington Mutual, Inc. | |||
President, Americas Division, Hilton Hotels & Resorts |
CEO, Gap Inc |
Headquarters Employee Relations Manager, The Coca-Cola Company |
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President, National Federation of Independent Business |
CEO, WAVE Inc |
Democratic and Republican Members, Missouri House of Representatives |
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Chairman of the Washington DC region, and Head of Corporate Responsibility, JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
SVP, General Manager – North America, INVACARE |
Senior Vice President, R&D, Global Snacks Category, PepsiCo |
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Senior Vice President, R&D, Global Nutrition, PepsiCo |
Senior Vice President, Global Technical Center of Excellence for Dairy & Chocolate, PepsiCo |
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Media StrategyDougherty Dialectic helps clients understand the news media’s values, content needs, and expectations. We help clients formulate dramatic story lines and identify newsworthy story elements irresistible to reporters. The firm's media relations experts have helped Fortune 500 corporations, law firms, and startups generate positive news coverage in hundreds of media outlets. Among them: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, Forbes, Fortune, Newsweek, Business Week, CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, Canal +, FOX, CNN, and various local and digital media outlets. Ask us to show you the op-ed pieces and front page story placements we engineered in the Washington Post, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Crisis Communications & Litigation SupportWorking shoulder-to-shoulder with Corporate Communications VPs, General Counsels and leading corporate law firms, we help companies calm and appease stakeholders in the aftermath of crises. We also help clients defend themselves in the court of public opinion when legal actions and concomitant media assaults are engineered by Attorneys Generals, Justice Department officials, and plaintiff’s lawyers. We have deep expertise in the following areas:
Training Services
The Company We KeepBelow are just some of the current and former clients we've worked with. |
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BiosJack Dougherty, the founder of Dougherty Dialectic, has for more than 20 years worked at the intersection of business, politics, news media and advocacy. Either as an in-house employee or consultant, he has counseled top executives at many of the world's most admired companies, among them: Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Capital One, Darden Restaurants, GAP Inc., GE, Google, McDonalds, Motorola, Nike, Pfizer, the US Chamber of Commerce, Washington Mutual and the Wm. J. Wrigley Company. His tech-sector clients have included startup social media companies, software security companies, digital entertainment purveyors, and online retailers. Jack is also an author and instructs courses on communications at the University of Virginia. |
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Victoria Dougherty has for nearly 20 years distinguished herself as a writer and master storyteller. She has written, translated, and produced television news segments, theatrical plays and video scripts. She has ghost-written articles, speeches and testimony for Fortune 500 executives. Her journalism and essays have been published in the Chicago Tribune, the Prague Post, and the Sunday edition of the New York Times. She is also the author of a novel, The Bone Church, a collection of short stories, Welcome to the Hotel Yalta, and Cold, a collection of essays. |
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BooksJack Dougherty is co-author of Most Likely to Succeed at Work (St. Martin's Press), a business book about workplace communications and personal reputation management. Published in the US, Canada, the UK and Taiwan, this popular book has been praised by critics, including Forbes, Fortune and Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Hartford Courant, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Dallas Morning News, to name a few. Dougherty has also been interviewed about the book on CBS radio, Channel One, NPR, CNBC, W-B Network, and FOX News’ “The O'Reilly Factor.” |
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TestimonialsWe have worked with, and earned the trust of, executives from many of the world’s most respected organizations. Affiliations
ContactJack Dougherty Victoria Dougherty |