 Featured Speaker
Thomas Hall
Chairman,
Tucker/Hall, Inc.
Tom Hall is
chairman of Tucker/Hall, one of the leading public relations firms in
the Southeast and the largest in Tampa Bay. Their practice includes
public affairs, crisis, and strategic communications. He has
researched fast-growth companies for years and has written a
successful book titled Ruthless
Focus about corporate strategy.
Hall has built
and sold two companies to national firms. He started and built
Creative Seminars into the largest advertising education firm in the
US and sold it to Adweek Magazine in New York. He owned and built
Ensslin and Hall Advertising into one of the largest marketing firms
in the South and sold it to Earle Palmer Brown in Washington.
Hall invented
a formula for getting free media for public service advertising and
used it to get more than $50 million in anti-drug abuse ads for
the state of Florida. He then gave the formula to the Partnership for
a Drug-Free America, which has gotten more than $3 billion in free
media with the system.
He is the
first person to receive the Partnership's lifetime achievement award
and was invited to the White House by President George H. W. Bush in
recognition of his efforts. He led the effort to build the Florida
Aquarium which is credited as the catalyst for changing downtown
Tampa into a more balanced city. He was involved with the Tampa
Downtown Partnership's efforts to get the new cruise terminal,
residential in the Channel District, and the Tampa Bay Times Forum.
He is a former member of the National Advertising Review Board and the
AAAA National Committee on improving advertising.
Ruthless Focus was chosen as
featured book of the month by the American Management Association and
has five gold reviews on Amazon.
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