Stephen C. Grant
Chief Communications Officer
There’s often a surprisingly fragile – and enormously critical – gap between one expert or company’s knowledge and its impact upon or value to others.
Bridging these gaps is Stephen Grant’s core expertise. He specializes in helping executive leaders, corporate boards and senior administrators and their teams develop high-impact communications that effect a strategic change in actions, perceptions or behaviors on the part of their most important constituencies and stakeholders.
As an experienced communications strategist and senior executive ghostwriter, Grant has built a career improving the communications effectiveness of executive teams responsible for the performance of Fortune 500 companies and other leading organizations in the U.S., the U.K. and Europe. His clients have included companies such as Hewlett Packard, GE Capital, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Schering-Plough, UBS, BearingPoint, Sun Microsystems and Symantec. Through these accounts and others, his indirect clients have included many of the world’s most important brands and companies in industries such as financial services, healthcare, entertainment, technology, retail and consumer, industrial product manufacturing, energy and utilities, insurance, real estate and government.
Prior to 2009, Grant was engaged as one of the only external and independent members of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) high-level internal executive communications teams. He was intimately involved in providing support to the leaders responsible for PwC’s multi-billion dollar U.S. business and IT consulting division. In this capacity, he contributed to PwC’s most strategic communications objectives by authoring communications such as (1) changes to the firm’s strategic messaging platform, (2) white paper submissions to the U.S. board, (3) change management messaging designed to effect cultural shifts in the organization, (4) executive talking points and other content supporting the firm’s Analyst Relations program, (5) high-level internal strategy papers defining the firm’s plans for growth, and (6) both internal and external communications supporting PwC’s strategic M&A initiatives. From 2002 to 2009, Grant authored more than 600 publications for more than 50 teams serving 18 industries across virtually all of the practices that form PwC’s consulting operations.
Similarly, Grant has been helping Hillard Heintze since its inception to define its identity as a firm, articulate its value proposition to clients and differentiate itself from competitors with passion, authenticity and impact.
A graduate of Yale University, Grant earned a Masters of Business Administration degree in New York University’s Executive MBA program.
