Alan is an award winning author, filmmaker, teacher and senior advisor in the communications industry. He is perhaps best known for his leadership over 30 years in the management consulting field as one of the world's leading strategic counselors assisting senior leadership teams and boards of directors bridge organizational transitions while maintaining the continuity of their institutional brand.

Alan is a leading pioneer of modern day crisis and litigation response strategies and has helped navigate companies through high-risk, high-visibility, outcome-dependent situations with a particular expertise in bridging stakeholders. In the financial service sector he has worked with leadership at JPMorganChase, Deustche Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of America, Wachovia, Banco Popular, Bank of Argentina and a number of regional institutions. He has been a leader in environmental crises including Exxon Valdez, Love Canal and a number of major international environmental disasters. Alan has authored more than 200 organizational transition strategies, crisis management and crisis mitigation plans for both U.S. and international clients and pioneered litigation communications and its relationship to reputation management. His substantial branding credentials including leading the creative team in developing GE's "Bringing Good Things to Life" branding initiative, Wendy's "Where's the Beef" campaign and AT&T’s "Olympic Torch Run."

Known for his senior perspectives and judgment, Alan established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on institutional brand alignment and reputation management as a management and organizational asset. He was identified by the London Times as a "leading corporate brand architect." Alan also was recognized as the "Red Adair of corporate crisis management" by the New York Times and was acknowledged by the Wall Street Journal as the "earliest practitioner of reputation management in litigation contexts."

Alan has co-authored two New York Times best sellers on leadership including "Russell Rules...Eleven Lessons on Leadership from the Greatest Winner of the Twentieth Century," and W.F. Rockwell, Jr.'s bestseller, "Twelve Hats of a Corporate President.” He is currently writing a book for Penguin Putnam on the relationship between organizational transitions and institutional branding.

In collaboration with Fortune magazine, Alan created the Business Hall of Fame and co-developed the America’s Most Admired Companies program.

He has received an Academy Award nomination for the second ever IMAX movie, “Living Planet:” And has received numerous awards for his HBO special, “My Life, My Way,” and the PBS Special “New Sweden.”
Alan is a lecturer at the University of California, Drexel University and George Mason University.

Over Alan's career, he mentored many young professionals. He currently serves as a marketing communications consultant to the National Mentoring Partnership and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. He is also a past board member of the Dallas Zoo, Washington Chamber Symphony and a number of other local organizations. He currently is chairman of California’s largest minority based environmental education organization.