Brett O'Donnell

President, O'Donnell and Associates, Ltd.

Brett O'Donnell brings the experience of tested communication strategies from six presidential campaigns and has the experience necessary to prepare political candidates, corporations and executives for success in formulating and delivering effective messages, responding to crisis, conducting effective media interviews, speeches, debates or town hall meetings.  He currently serves as a debate/communications consultant to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Senators John Barrasso, Tom Cotton, Bill Hagerty, Marsha Blackburn, Katie Britt, Ted Budd, Jim Banks, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.  He and his company also consult for major health care, defense, insurance, and other fortune 500 corporations and executives.  In 2019 O’Donnell served Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his election and prepared him for the first ever head-to-head Prime Minister debates.  O’Donnell also serves as a communications consultant to a number of members of the US House.  In 2018 O’Donnell helped Republicans increase their majority in the Senate by consulting on five key senate races winning four of them.  O’Donnell also was the message and debate consultant to the Vote Leave Campaign that led to the successful Brexit vote.  In 2014 O’Donnell was the communications consultant to seven candidates who were elected to the United States Senate, helping Republicans take back the majority in the Senate.  In 2011-12 O’Donnell served as the Chief Strategist for the Bachmann for President Campaign and advised the Romney Campaign in Florida to help turnaround his debate performances there.  In 2006-2008 O’Donnell served as the Director of Messaging for the John McCain Presidential Campaign.  In 2004 O’Donnell served as an advisor to President Bush and the Bush-Cheney Campaign.  O’Donnell has consulted on numerous gubernatorial and U.S. House races as well.  He was a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics in the fall of 2012.  He also served as the Director of Debate at Liberty University where his teams won eighteen national debate championships from 1993-2008.  He appears regularly on broadcast TV, radio and print including Fox, Newsnation, CNN, ABC, CBS, ITV, the BBC, Skynews and many others.

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