Art Stewart has over twenty-five years of experience across the spectrum of his profession, including fifteen years as head of his own firm. His expertise as a transformation strategist extends across several key management disciplines and is strengthened by uncommon exposure to a diversity of organizations, industries and ‘publics’.

Art’s rich consulting experience runs the gamut - from innovative technology based start-ups and early stage ventures to mature bricks and mortar leaders as well as venerable non-profit and cause related institutions. Recognized as an effective problem solver, he has attracted a diverse array of organizations as clients - most of whom are leaders in their respective domains.

His professional endeavors have taken him to the forefront of the green/sustainability movement and in the management of stakeholder issues and social responsibility since the early 1990’s, both as an in-house employee and in the formative years of Stewart Strategies Group in Cambridge, Mass.

Art consistently identifies the unanticipated upside in client business challenges and responds with creative initiative that produces greater competitiveness for clients via new service or market opportunities. He ‘breaks the code’ of complex issues, concepts, and organization dynamics to translate them into clear, differentiated behavioral strategies and communication.

With an innate understanding of how marketplace dynamics (culture, trends, paradigms and perceptions) impact organization success, as well as the challenges leaders face, his programs achieve sustainable competitiveness because they are built upon realistic, long-view implications. He is an effective and trustworthy counselor to senior executives, as well as facilitator to leadership teams. His research, writing, reporting, and consulting experience has involved a wide array of issues and public policies.

Art’s earlier posts have been with New England’s third-largest communications agency, Mullen (assigned to their largest PR account, Hewlett-Packard Medical Products Group), and The Interface Group (COMDEX, the world’s preeminent technology event and ETEX, the environmental technology conference in Washington).

His media experience includes posts at two Boston television/film production companies and management positions at classical music radio stations. He was a news reporter/anchor covering state government in Pennsylvania as well as an award-winning documentary and investigative reports producer. Early on, Art was a pollster for Pat Caddell’s Cambridge Survey Research on a variety of projects, including for their principal client the DNC and then-President Jimmy Carter.

Art writes and speaks often on policy and the issues pertaining to strategy, innovation and leadership. He serves on the Thought Leader Advisory Panel of the Center for Consumer Research at the Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph’s University, the Advisory Council of Peregrine Arts in Philadelphia, and the Board of Directors of The Woodley Ensemble in Washington.

Art earned an undergraduate degree in communications from Emerson College in Boston and is near completion of a Master’s in Policy Management from Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute. He holds a postgraduate certificate in Senior Executive Leadership also from Georgetown, and has completed “Dealing with an Angry Public,” with the MIT-Harvard Law School Public Disputes and Negotiation Program.

His professional achievements have earned Art inclusion in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Business & Finance, and Who's Who in the Media & Communications.