John Brodeur is founder and chairman of Brodeur Partners, a strategic communications agency with four U.S. offices and partners in four continents. Brodeur Partners was founded almost 30 years ago. Its first game-changing client was IBM in 1990. The company has been named Agency of the Year and voted Best Place to Work. 

Since the early days, Brodeur Partners has worked with top brands in the corporate and non-profit world, including Fortune 500 companies, higher and secondary education, major health care organizations, and financial services enterprises. Omnicom Group, Inc. (NYSE: OMC) is a minority equity partner. 

John’s focus for the last 12 years has been education institutions, mostly in advancement, crisis, enrollment, and branding. The company’s clients include Harvard, MIT, Dartmouth, Columbia, Rice, Boston College, Brandeis, Babson, UChicago, UC Berkeley, Lehigh, University System of New Hampshire, Penn, Cornell, UMass Medical School, Deerfield, Philips Andover, and many others.

John is a journalism graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno. He worked for United Press International and two daily newspapers before moving to Washington, D.C. There he worked as press secretary to a Nevada U.S. Senator and then Chief of Staff for a Nevada House member. 

John earned a master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School and is a trustee and advisor for several non-profit and educational entities. He is based in Boston but prefers to be in Maine.