Owen Eagan

Owen Eagan specializes in developing community outreach programs for Fortune 500 companies. He has worked on more than a hundred political campaigns, including a successful ballot initiative for the $5 billion rail transit proposal in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the author of So What?: Measuring and Assessing Strategic Communications in Land Use Politics, which describes a management consulting firm’s approach to winning political campaigns and has been hailed as one of the best business books on politics by industry, political, communications and academic leaders.

He received a BA from Clark University, an MA from Emerson College and an MBA from Pepperdine University. He also attended the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program and the University of California-Berkeley CEQA CLE program.

In addition, Owen is currently an Executive-in-Residence at Emerson College, the nation’s only four-year institution dedicated exclusively to the study of communication and the performing arts, and is certified in Social & Behavioral Research by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative.