Professional and public references for Norris Clark:
On behalf
of the New Jersey Department of Education’s Office of Governance and Leadership Development, I wish to express our appreciation
for the outstanding presentation…”The Effective Communications Skills for the District and School Leaders”
was a success….
…Evaluations
all expressed their appreciation for your extraordinary knowledge, talent and expertise.
Elaine Davis, Director, Office of Governance and Leadership Development, NJ Department
of Education
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Norris joined the NJ Department of Education at the request of
Commissioner Bret Schundler, in the spirit of "public service," to direct our newly formed Family and Community
Relations Office. Norris was tasked with public relations at the NJDOE and managing incoming communications while developing
an ambitious outreach to all NJ households with children in school. Norris led in a re-design of our "customer"
interface, including our web site.
Following Mr. Schundler's administration, Acting Commissioner Rochelle Hendricks expanded
this Office and Norris' role to include partnership development and fundraising.
Despite several Department turnovers in administration, Norris
has proven throughout that he is a team player with energy, talent, vision and great communications skill. He has represented
us well on TV and at community meetings and greatly advanced initiatives to underwrite our outreach efforts.
Dave Corso, Assistant Commissioner,
Administration and Finance, NJ Department of Education
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As Vice President of Communications for Thomson Learning, we hired a team
from Magnet Communications led by Norris Clark to help plan and implement our media relations. The team supported our corporate
positioning, media relations for major announcements and launches, and internal communications throughout our global network.
Working
closely with our team and research findings, Norris articulated our value proposition, crafted messaging, and developed an
ambitious communication plan. He provided media training to our senior executives, accompanied us on an international media
relations campaign, made internal presentations, and handled the media for the launch of Universitas21. Together we measurably
met our earned media goals, including a major placement with the Wall Street Journal
Norris combined
the sensitivities of an educator, knowledge of new learning technologies, and team leadership, together with a very skillful,
articulate and polished approach to become a well-trusted communications counselor to our organization. Moreover, Norris is
an intelligent, warm and caring individual who seems to bring out the best in those around him.
Kristen McCarthy, (former) Vice President
of Communications, Thomson Learning
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"At Magnet Communications,
Norris was thoughtful, creative, passionate, engaging and articulate: qualities which supported our successful client acquisitions,
like IBM. He built a new practice for the firm and skillfully managed some of our largest accounts. "
David Kratz, Former CEO, Magnet Communications
I had the pleasure of working with Norris as a valued member of Perot Systems leading edge Customer
Relationship Management practice. He brought enormous talent to our International Group. Time and again he demonstrated
his ability to dialogue effectively with the full range of executives in our client and prospect base. His grasp of marketing
and communications essentials created valued points of differentiation that led to a profitable engagement at Saks Fifth Avenue,
beating out an IBM oriented solution. Norris has excellent one to one skills. He has an in-depth knowledge of
“One To One Marketing” and “Customer For Life concepts”. His broad background has also given him abilities
beyond the norm in the CRM/Marketing field. I was always impressed with his ability to cold call and effectively
engage key executives at Fortune 500 Companies. I have found Norris to be a true marketing and communications
professional and a valuable asset to any organization.
Charles Gooda, Global Strategy Executive for Strategic Markets, Perot Systems
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Norris Clark's leadership
of our nine person group sales team resulted in a 92% increase of overall group sales revenue over a four-year period. While
steadily increasing sales, he worked with the team to successfully deliver a wide rage of major group events.
On the marketing side, Norris initiated a wide array of successful projects in research, public relations, online marketing,
social media, entertainment events, direct marketing, and marketing partnerships. He worked to steadily increase our holiday
sales, implement a guest survey system, and initiate many new online marketing tactics.
He redeveloped
our web site, and launched us into social media. He measurably increased our earned media results by 500% though his public
relations efforts.
Norris is thoughtful and passionate about his work. He is a good communicator
and a team player. Overall, he greatly re-enforced a customer-centered focus in our organization."
Jack Morey, Executive Vice President, Morey's Piers, Beachfront Waterparks and
Resorts
--------------------------------------------------------------- “In fact, Clark is the most passionate and polished candidate
Press Editors interviewed this campaign season.…
Clark, a sales and marketing consultant...and former college
instructor, was also a campaign director for Ross Perot’s presidential bids and national spokesman for Ross Perot’s
United We Stand group.
…Clark’s a thinker, a born
teacher….”
Press of Atlantic City, Editorial Endorsement
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I have a lot of great
memories and stories about Norris, but the thing that is most vivid in my memory, is that he is a man who is honest, he’s
trustworthy, he’s loyal, he helps other people at all times, I will never get over his desire to provide service to
help people…he keeps himself mentally alert… he lives the words of the Boy Scouts, be prepared.
Ross Perot
