Thomas R. Clifford

Current

• Co-Author at The Age of Conversation
• Corporate Documentary Filmmaker at Moving Pictures

Past

• Corporate Documentary Filmmaker & Story Producer at DeSai Innovation & Learning
• Corporate Documentary Filmmaker at Fountainhead Production
• Corporate Documentary Filmmaker at Moving Pictures

• Corporate Documentary Filmmaker at TC Productions (Self-employed)
• Corporate Documentary Filmmaker at The Travelers

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Education

• Loyola University New Orleans
• Middlesex Community College
• Xavier High School

• Daniel Hand High School

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Recommended

20 people have recommended Thomas R.

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

Websites

• Tom's Blog :: Director Tom
• Tom's Company::Moving Pictures
• Tom's "ChangeThis" Manifesto

Thomas R. Clifford’s Summary

►Do you want to bring your "brand to life?"
►Need to tell your story in a clear, authentic and remarkable way?
►Wish you could bring your organization’s brand story to life and make it jump off the screen and into your customers' heart?

Remember, customers don’t buy products. They buy stories about who you are and what you stand for.

Tom is a seasoned, award-winning filmmaker who thinks "remarkable organizations deserve remarkable video stories."

For 23 years, Tom has been helping companies tell their story by producing award-winning corporate videos.

And he can tell yours, too.

Tom is a passionate corporate filmmaker who captures your video story through your best storytellers -- your employees, or "heroes."

He finds out what matters most to organizations - what they want their market and the world to know about them.

That's why Fortune 100's to non-profits depend on Tom's videos for marketing, recruiting and retention, sharing corporate values and more.

It doesn't matter whether your message is about marketing, recruiting, employee retention, corporate culture and organizational values.

Tom will produce your corporate video to be:
--remarkable.
--memorable.
--something people want to share.

Tom's videos are energetic, engaging, compelling, meaningful and authentic.

Every company has a remarkable story.

The only question is...who's filming yours?

► Contact me anytime you have questions or know someone who would prefer something "remarkable" over the same old, boring song and dance.

Organizations commission Tom to:
➢ Recruit volunteers
➢ Generate sales leads
➢ Inspire and empower employees
➢ Teach new ideas
➢ Share corporate culture and values
➢ Orientate new-hires
➢ Change perceptions
➢ Create virtual company tours

Partial Client List:
• Loctite
• Honeywell
• UCONN
• CAS Medical
• Timex
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• CT Technology Council
• St. Francis Hospital
• VBrick

Thomas R. Clifford’s Specialties:

• Innovative thinker.
• Closes gaps that separates people.
• Inspires others to fulfill their vision.
• Transforms something strong into something superb.
• Discovers visionary solutions.
• Responds flexibly to unplanned situations.
• Focuses on opportunities.
• Identifies novel connections among disparate ideas.

VALUE TO A TEAM:
• Inspires leadership.
• Brings fun to any environment.
• Seeks to understand the other's view point.
• Considers many different perspectives at once.

Thomas R. Clifford’s Experience

• Co-Author

  The Age of Conversation

  (Public Company; Myself Only; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  July 2007 — Present (11 months)

  My article "Let's See That Again!" for The Age of Conversation book, is a simple formula to create remarkable conversations from your remarkable corporate video.
  
  The Age of Conversation will certainly be remembered as a ground-breaking book in the publishing world.
  
  Inspired by Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton, over 100 writers, creatives, innovators and thought leaders each wrote a short article on the art of conversation in light of the new media landscape in front of us.

• Corporate Documentary Filmmaker

  Moving Pictures

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

  June 2007 — Present (1 year)

  Bringing "brands to life" through meaningful filmmaking.
  
  Organizations commission me to produce short, authentic corporate-image videos. These videos strengthen brand recognition, ignite conversations and deepen emotional connections to all who experience it.
  
  I produce short videos on a variety of subjects for companies:
  --diversity
  --recruiting
  --orientation
  --corporate culture
  --raising awareness on issues
  ...and more.

• Corporate Documentary Filmmaker & Story Producer

  DeSai Innovation & Learning

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)

  March 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  Corporate-Image Filmmaker .
  
  Co-Creator and Story Producer for Spiral Story.

• Corporate Documentary Filmmaker

  Fountainhead Production

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

  July 2005 — March 2006 (9 months)

  Corporate-image Video Producer & Director

• Corporate Documentary Filmmaker

  Moving Pictures

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

  July 1996 — June 2005 (9 years)

  Grew the corporate video business from approximately 10% at the time of employment to more than 50% at the time of departure.
  
  Produced and directed more than 125 corporate-image video programs.
  
  Specialized in innovating, eye-catching and compelling documentaries for Fortune 500 companies as well as local non-profits.
  
  Generated tremendous word-of-mouth advertising through quality of work and friendly, personal approach to work.
  
  Produced and directed in many formats: DVD, CD-ROM, Flash, web-based files.

• Corporate Documentary Filmmaker

  TC Productions (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Media Production industry)

  April 1994 — July 1996 (2 years 4 months)

  Co-produced "The Men Who Brought the Dawn" and "Enola Gay."
  
  "The Men Who Brought the Dawn" was a one-hour, world-wide documentary featuring the surviving airmen who dropped the two atomic bombs on Japan.
  
  "Enola Gay" is a shorter version of "The Men Who Brought the Dawn" and was created specifically for the Smithsonian Institution's 50th Anniversay commemorating the end of WWII.
  
  Both films are now a part of the Smithsonian Institution's permanent archive library collection.

• Corporate Documentary Filmmaker

  The Travelers

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Media Production industry)

  July 1984 — April 1994 (9 years 10 months)

  --Senior Video Producer & Director for nine years.
  --Responsible for yearly multi-million dollar budgets.
  --Produced hundreds of films for internal and external communications.
  --Pioneered employee communications through innovative filmmaking styles.
  --Generated income for Managed Care Department by creating modular videos for re-sale to The Travelers customers.
  --Received dozens of national and international filmmaking awards testifying to high quality of production work.
  --Created videos for The NFL Hall of Fame, AFC Chanpionship half-time, directed an anti-drug commercial aired on MTV, VH1, TNN, and many more networks.

Thomas R. Clifford’s Education

• Loyola University New Orleans

  B.A., Communications, Television, 1977 — 1980

  I thrived on studying "Communications" in its various incarnations and formats...journalism, television, music theory, film theory, parables and mass communications.

  Activities and Societies:

  When I wasn't studying communications and television, I was busy studying:
  
  Zen meditation, Yoga, Tai Chi, Ikebana, Calligraphy, Buddhism, Hinduism, Eastern Wisdom, World philosophies.

• Middlesex Community College

  A.S, Television, 1975 — 1977

• Xavier High School

  1972 — 1975

• Daniel Hand High School

  1971 — 1972

Additional Information

Thomas R. Clifford’s Websites:

• Tom's Blog :: Director Tom
• Tom's Company::Moving Pictures
• Tom's "ChangeThis" Manifesto

Thomas R. Clifford’s Interests:

Deepak Chopra, corporate video, corporate storytelling, eastern wisdom, perennial philosophy, Hinduism, Zaadz, road biking, mountain biking, reading, walking, unique business models, social media, quantum physics, documentaries, mythology, personal branding, filmmaking, producing, directing, storytelling, story, social networking, blogging, professional networking, metaphysics, creativity, social networking

Thomas R. Clifford’s Groups:

Advisory Board Member: DeSai Learning, http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkedInGroupsDirectory,
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkingConnecticut/,
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyLinkedinPowerForum/, Blogger Social

•    The DallasBlue Business Network member
•    MediaBloggers member
•    My Linking Power Forum member
• Forbes.com Entrepreneurs member
•    Helping Friends Career Network (LI2HF) member
•    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières member
•    KIVA member
•    World Wildlife Fund member
•    American Red Cross member
•    Unitus member
•    Obama for America member
•    Digital Cinema member
•    The Biggest Business In The World member
•    Link to Your World™ member
•    SHiFT! - Leverage 'Trigger Events' To Outsell Your Competition member
•    Media Communications Association-International member
•    Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group member
•    International Network of Social Entrepreneurs member
•    Plaxo.com member
•    Worldwide Association of Professional Dreamers member
•    Expertise for Hire member
•    Linking Connecticut member
•    MyLinkGroups member
•    Collaboration member
•    MyLinkWiki member
•    Virtual Networker Society member
•    Who's Your Daddy? member
•    International Television Expert Group (www.itve.org) member
•    Association of Virtual Worlds member
•    MovieProfs :: professionals working in the Movie Business:: member
•    Networking pros member
•    Business 3.0™ member
•    Guerrilla Marketing Tips for Small Businesses member
•    Teach Us About member
•    Linking Boomers member
•    LI Socials member
•    The Science Of Encouragement member
•    Linking Hartford member
•    Success Networking member
•    ThoseInMedia (The who's who in all the media markets) member
•    Digital Media And Strategy member
•    DCA Business member
•    Documentarians member
•    Motion Pictures & Film Industry member
•    " International LEADFROMTHEHEART" Forum member
•    Filmmakers member
•    Accelerate The Cluetrain Manifesto member
•    My Job TIGER member
•    Die Hard Fans Of Led Zeppelin member
•    DallasBlue Media member
•    JibberJobber - Career Management member
•    Film TV Professionals member
•    Tweeple member
•    SOBCon08 member
•    Blogger Social '08 member

Thomas R. Clifford’s Honors:

2007: Telly Award and Ad Club of Connecticut Award for "Take Charge of the Facts." Produced and directed for the Epilepsy Foundation.

2007: Two Telly Awards for "Out of the Shadows." Produced and directed a mini-documentary featuring four teens with epilepsy. Designed to create awareness and dispel common myths surrounding epilepsy.

ITVA Awards, New York International Film and Video Festival.

"The Men who Brought the Dawn." Co-produced a one hour, world-wide documentary on the atomic missions to Japan. It's now airing on the Smithsonian Channel.
The film commemorated the 50th anniversary of the flights to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now part of the Smithsonian Institution's permanent archive library.

Commissioned by The NFL Hall of Fame.

Co-Created SpiralStory.com, a storytelling service designed to empower individuals and inspire new learning opportunities in organizations.

Pioneered corporate video employee-communications while at The Travelers Insurance.

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