Alice H. Brink, ABC, APR, president of A Brink & Co., is an award-winning public relations professional with more than 25 years of corporate and consulting experience. She spent the first half of her career in major corporations including AT&T, The Coca-Cola Company, and Conoco Inc. She has been a consultant since 1997, first with a regional public relations agency, and now with an independent practice (www.abrinkandco.com) focused on energy and finance communications. Alice has received local, regional and national recognition for communications strategy, writing, and measurement work. She received the Jack Felton Golden Ruler Award in 2008 from the Institute of Public Relations and was one of the first to be designated a “Measurement Maven” by Katie Paine in The Measurement Standard.