Gloria Dittus

GLORIA DITTUS is President and CEO of Dittus Communications. Gloria
provides strategic counsel and tactical guidance for all Dittus
Communications clients. She is one of the nation’s top PR and marketing
professionals specializing in issue advocacy; strategic communications;
corporate branding and positioning; and marketing communications. She
began solving corporate challenges by building integrated campaigns
using a wide range of public affairs programming and marketing
communications practices. Under her leadership, Dittus Communications
has grown from a small public affairs firm into one of Washington,
D.C.’s largest full-service public relations, marketing communications
and issue advocacy agencies. Dittus Communications has won numerous
honors including three prestigious Gold Mercury Awards, the world’s
largest juried competition honoring excellence in PR and corporate
communications. Previously, Gloria served as a Vice President and co-
founder of one of the nation’s leading grassroots consulting firms, and
in a variety of public relations positions at Edison Electric Institute,
Exxon Corporation and the U.S. Senate. She has been featured in numerous
publications including Ad Age, PR Week, the New York Times, Washington
Post, Wall Street Journal and George magazine. Recently dubbed a “PR
maven” by Wired magazine, Gloria was named the Washington area’s 1999
“PR Woman of the Year” and “Washington Business Woman of the Year” in
2000.