Doug Williams
President
Fuse 5
Doug Williams is president of Fuse 5, a Houston-based marketing, public relations, writing, training, and special events firm. His background includes writing in a comprehensive range of media, and he is a frequent speaker and leads communications-related seminars throughout North America. He has more than 25 years of experience writing for companies and institutions across multiple economic sectors, including banking and finance, economic development, energy, environmental, healthcare, human resources, legal, manufacturing, non-for-profit, and telecommunications.
Mr. Williams is a former journalist, editor and columnist; has worked as a press secretary in the U.S. Senate; has worked as a political consultant on campaigns at virtually every level; and served as chief creative writer and senior vice president for public relations and public affairs at a large regional advertising agency. He has also managed corporate communications and marketing functions in both the public and private sectors, and has nearly two decades of experience in grassroots, public policy, crisis, and government relations communications.
His capabilities cover the full spectrum of internal and external communications: advertising, annual reports, brochures, crisis communications, customer contact, direct mail, employee newsletters, executive ghost-writing, fact sheets, feature writing, government relations support, grassroots/issues communications, integrating editorial and marketing, magazine writing, media backgrounders, news releases, newsletters, scriptwriting, social media, speeches, technical writing, websites, and white papers.
Mr. Williams has won numerous Addy Awards for creative advertising; is a three-time winner of the national Telly Award for broadcast excellence; wrote and co-directed a marketing video that earned an international Galaxy Award; and co-produced and co-directed a video that won a WorldFest-Houston award. Clients he has worked with include AARP, The American Gas Association, AT&T, Bracewell & Giuliani, Burleson Cooke, Enron, GDF SUEZ Energy Resources NA, The Greater Houston Partnership, The Hollings Cancer Center, International Paper, The Methodist Hospital, Motorola, Nucor Steel, San Diego Gas & Electric, Shell, UPS, USAA, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Wells Fargo.
Mr. Williams has written special sections for Fortune Magazine; his executive speeches have been published in Vital Speeches of the Day; he has served as a contributing editor for a national business publication; and he has taught advertising and public relations writing at the college level. His monograph for senior communications executives, which detailed strategies for creating and executing compelling narratives and action-oriented “story lines” at the corporate level, was published by the Public Affairs Council, Washington, D.C.
He has lectured throughout North America on a variety of subjects, including a seminar on web writing and content development for the International PRSA conference. Other areas on which he has spoken or provided training include strategic messaging; crisis management; building grassroots coalitions in hostile environments; employee motivation and creativity in the workplace; use of the Internet and social media in corporate/crisis communications and issues management; media relations; presentation strategies; integrating marketing messages into editorial materials; public speaking; and employee communications, as well as a full range of topics related to writing.
His first screenplay, Black Star Rising, based on the life of Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, won the Silver Remi Award in the WorldFest-Houston screenwriting completion; earned Best Female Character honor in the nationally known A Feeding Frenzy competition; and was a semi-finalist for the International Screenplay Award for drama. His second, The Second Coming of Peter Paul, was a semi-finalist in the American Accolades competition. He has just completed Killing Time, a science-based thriller about the search for a genetic fountain of youth.
His first novel, This Far West, was published in 2001, and he is currently at work on Patriot Acts, a political thriller. Mr. Williams is also a playwright with four New York credits.
