Terrie Williams
CEO The Terrie Williams Agency
She is a social worker by training. She
is a public relations professional by design. She is a published
author, lecturer, deal maker, community activist.
Terrie opened The Terrie Williams Agency
in 1988 with superstar Eddie Murphy and jazz legend Miles
Davis as her first clients. Today the Agency is considered
one of the country's premiere public relations and communications
firms and specializes in public relations, corporate affairs,
community relations, marketing, corporate diversity and special
events management. The Agency has handled such clients as
Time Warner, Inc., AT&T, HBO, Revlon, Scholastic, Inc.,
Schieffelin & Someset Co. (distributors of Moet &
Chandon Champagne and Hennessy Cognac), Essence Communications,
Inc., renowned attorney Johnnie Cochran, talk show host Sally
Jessy Raphael, Janet Jackson, and civil rights leader Reverend
Al Sharpton.
In September 1994, Warner Books published
Williams' The Personal Touch: What You Really Need to Succeed
in Today's Fast-Paced Business World. The best-selling book
on developing business practices in now in paperback and includes
a foreword by Bill Cosby and a preface by Jonathan M. Tisch,
the president and CEO of Loews Hotels. The Personal Touch
has been used as a guide at business workshops, lectures and
corporate success courses given across the country.
Terrie is currently working on a version
of The Personal Touch for teenagers entitled Please &
Thank You & Other Life Lessons for Teens that will be
published by Scholastic, Inc. in August 2000. She is also
writing an inspirational self-help tome called A Plentiful
Harvest: Creating Balance and Harmony Through The Seven Living
Virtues, due out in 2001 by Warner Books.
Williams is one of the country's most highly
sought-after speakers, and has shared her own brand of success
and personal development strategies with numerous Fortune
500 companies, New York University Continuing Education Program,
The New School for Social Research. The National Football
League, The National Basketball Association and The National
Hockey League. A licensed social worker, Williams also counsels
professional athletes, at-risk youth and non-profit organizations
that work with young adults and children. She also devotes
good portion of her professional life to assisting individuals
who want to pursue a career in public relations and communications.
Williams' success story has been featured
in numerous publications including The Washington Post, The
Boston Globe, Crain's New York Business, The New York Daily
News and People, Essence and Adweek magazines. Among the numerous
awards and honors she has received include: The New York Women
in Communications Matrix Award in Public Relation (she was
the first and only woman of color to be so honored in the
30-year history of the award): the PRSA New York Chapter's
Phillip Dorf Mentoring Award; and The Citizen's Committee
for New York Marietta Tree Award for Public Service.
In 1996, Terrie was the first person of
color honored with the Vernon C. Schranz Distinguished Lectureship
at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Established in
1979, the Lectureship is recognized as one of the most preeminent
in public relations. The lecture is re-printed in leading
public relations journals and used in public relations classrooms
on a global basis.
In 1998, to commemorate the 10th anniversary
of the Terrie Williams Agency, Terrie donated her collection
of business and personal papers to Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn
Research Center. The donation was the center's first gift
of material specific to the public relations field. Moorland-Spingarn
Research Center is the world's largest, most comprehensive
repository of information and materials about and by people
of African descent, housing works by such legendary figures
as Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, W.E.D. Dubois, Alice
Walker, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison.
In September 2000, Terrie was recruited
by People magazine and American Online to be a part of "The
Digital Heroes Campaign," an innovative new program designed
to expand the concept of mentoring to uner-served young people
via the internet. Terrie joins more than 100 participating
personalities -- such as Gen. Colin Powell, Gregory Hines,
Michael J. Fox, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Russell Simmons and
Martha Stewart - in the first e-mentoring program to involve
such a high-profile group of mentors. The program gives Terrie
and the other mentors the opportunity to share their insight
and life experiences with young people who can most benefit
by their support.
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