Communications Counsel
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
- Current
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- Communications Counsel at Al Comeaux
- Past
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- SVP Corporate Communications at Sabre
- VP Public Relations at Travelocity
- Corporate Communications at American Airlines
- Education
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- Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
- Connections
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- Industry
- Public Relations and Communications
Al Comeaux’s Summary
Al Comeaux is an award-winning corporate communications leader who brings more than two decades in communications and related fields to his counseling practice.
He has extensive experience guiding senior management teams through strategic public relations and business opportunities and directing media relations, messaging, public affairs, crisis, social media, planning, marketing communications/branding, employee/labor communications, financial and international communications, corporate social responsibility and graphic design.
Most recently, Comeaux was senior vice president of corporate communications for Sabre Holdings, where he directed media relations, employee communications, social media, and corporate social responsibility. In this role, he helped Sabre through rapid workforce globalization and major acquisitions, including the purchase of Sabre by private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and TPG.
In Comeaux’s previous role as vice president of public relations at Travelocity, he directed all public relations activity for the online travel agency. In that role, he repositioned Travelocity’s public relations from technology-based messaging to travel-related messaging, including building an extensive program to merchandise the brand’s travel expertise.
Prior to Travelocity, Comeaux worked for American Airlines, where his various positions included leading the airline’s public relations initiatives in Europe and managing its labor public relations activity. Before joining American, Comeaux worked for Conway & Company Public Relations in Washington, D.C., and as press secretary for U.S. Rep. F.I. Sunia.
Al Comeaux’s Specialties:
- Principle-based crisis planning, comms and decisionmaking.
- Internal social networking to reduce costs.
- Using thought leadership for marketing/brand building.
- Right-sizing the communications function (growing it or shrinking it) according to strategy, using activity value analysis.
- Workforce globalization.
- Labor communications.
Al Comeaux’s Experience
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Communications Counsel
Al Comeaux
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
Independent Communications Counsel
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SVP Corporate Communications
Sabre
(Public Company; TSG; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2005 — December 2008 (3 years 10 months)
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VP Public Relations
Travelocity
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
June 2000 — March 2005 (4 years 10 months)
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Corporate Communications
American Airlines
(Public Company; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
1992 — 2000 (8 years)
Al Comeaux’s Education
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Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
1983 — 1987
Additional Information
Al Comeaux’s Groups:
He is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society; he served on the Executive Committee of the Conference Board Council for Communications Strategy; and he is a past member of the Communications Executive Council.
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Current and Former Capitol Hill Staffers
Al Comeaux’s Honors:
While earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Manship School of Journalism at Louisiana State University, Comeaux won the William Randolph Hearst National Writing Championship, considered the collegiate equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. His collaborative work has received numerous honors, including the Public Relations Society of America’s highest honor – the Silver Anvil – and recognition for best practice work by the Communications Executive Council and Forrester.
Al Comeaux’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- expertise requests
- reference requests
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