William Stewart

William Stewart has been a corporate communications practitioner for three decades, specializing in executive communications strategy and management, executive speechwriting and corporate history communications. His creative work has been recognized through numerous professional awards programs.

For twelve years at Chrysler Corporation and its successor, DaimlerChrysler, Bill served as an executive communications adviser to senior management, researching and preparing major speeches, financial analyst presentations, marketing programs, bylined articles and special projects for corporate officers. His projects included concept car presentations to senior government officials of the People's Republic of China in Beijing; introductions of Chrysler right-hand drive vehicles in Japan, management and economics presentations and product introductions worldwide, and corporate affairs and government relations programs at national political conventions and other venues.

Bill's first corporate communications position was with a Fortune 500 food processing company, Stokely-Van Camp, Inc., the initial processor of Gatorade thirst quencher. He later served as a public relations officer with Indiana's largest bank holding company and as an executive communications consultant to Subaru, Isuzu, Blue Cross-Blue Shield and numerous manufacturing firms, banks and insurance companies.

Bill has enjoyed a lifelong interest in business history, particularly the history of the transportation industries, and has applied that interest to many of his communications projects. He served for three years as curator of Chrysler's corporate museum, overseeing the presentation of all historical content in the Museum's programs and providing Chrysler-related historical information to print and broadcast media worldwide. He has also written many articles on transportation history for national magazines.

A graduate of Indiana University (B.S.) and Ball State University (M.A.), Bill also earned an executive management certificate at the University of Michigan. He has been professionally accredited by the Public Relations Society of America and the International Association of Business Communicators. Bill is also a four-year active-duty veteran of the United States Air Force, where he served as a director of educational television programs in Colorado and as a news broadcaster with the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service in Europe.

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