Consensus Ranks #1 among Central Florida PR Firms

Aug. 25, 2011 - PRLog -- For the seventh time in ten years, Consensus Communications has topped the Orlando Business Journal’s ranking of top public relations firms in Central Florida.  The list, published in the OBJ’s August 19th edition, can be viewed in its entirety at bizjournals.com/Orlando.

“We are proud to be recognized as a leader in our industry, and to represent clients who are leaders in theirs,” said Consensus Partner Roy Reid, who was inducted in 2010 into the University of Central Florida’s Nicholson School of Communication Hall of Fame.

For more than 16 years, Consensus has represented clients in Central Florida and throughout the state – from Fortune 500 companies to local entrepreneurs – with a variety of complex needs. The firm is also at the forefront of the issues shaping Central Florida and the state’s future, including the initiatives in 2010 to secure SunRail and serving as the lead strategist for the statewide campaign to defeat Amendment 4, the so-called Hometown Democracy initiative. The firm also ran the campaign to create Orange County’s elected school board chairman position and subsequently ran the successful county-wide campaign of the first citizen-elected Orange County School Board Chairman. Consensus also remains at the forefront of the ever-changing healthcare and life sciences landscape through its work with a number of clients, including Lake Nona Medical City and Health Central Hospital.

The professionals at Consensus also believe in giving back to the community and provide pro bono public relations services to local civic and charitable organizations including Grace Medical Home, United Global Outreach, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Kid’s House of Seminole, Habitat for Humanity and UCF.  In addition, our people are leaders of local community groups, with Dana Loncar serving this year as President for the Coalition for the Homeless, Roy Reid serving on the Board of Directors for the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce, and Jessi Blakley serving on the Board of Directors for the Orlando chapters of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Public Relations Society of America.

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Consensus Communications, located in Downtown Orlando, is a full service public relations firm that specializes in high stakes communications strategy, including communications planning, media relations, crisis communications, community relations, governmental relations, ballot issues, political campaigns, marketing, new media, and integrated communications planning and management.