Tom Mulhern is a communication accelerator.

Tom guides teams from confusion to clarity as they create better brands, better services, better places and better communities. His work results in frameworks that support confident action.

For the past 30+ years, Tom has worked as a strategist at the overlap of design, technology, and business innovation. He has been a content and engagement leader for pioneers in design-based strategy, including Doblin, Conifer Research, VSA Partners and Gensler. Since 2019, he has worked independently and in collaboration with agency partners to help position brands and organizations for growth in uncertain times.

Clients have ranged from global corporations including SK Telecom, Caterpillar, Ford, and McDonald’s to scrappy social enterprises and venture-backed startups. Tom’s joy and special gift is to use his core skills as a writer and talker to unite diverse people around common purpose in order to defy the gravity of conventional thinking.