Charlotte VM Ottley is a personal and professional market development strategist whose career spans over 30 years as an educator; award winning media executive and on-air talent with CBS- and NBC-owned stations, and other radio, cable and print media. Concurrently, she has headed her own business in St. Louis, Missouri and Manhattan, New York with affiliates in 11 other cities. She has represented the nation?s top financial corporations during the height of mergers and acquisitions ensuring them revenue, positive media, and community goodwill through innovative campaigns, special events and public relations. Professional individuals, including corporate, political, and civic leaders, along with celebrities from stage, sports, and mass media, all benefit from her services during major transitions in their career development. Her portfolio of institutional development initiatives exceeds $10 billion dollars.
Through utilization of educational and training principles, government and corporate relationships, Ottley has navigated every aspect of achievement for her clients by effectively educating one source about another source for a mutual gain. This perspective has contributed to her tenacity to build collaborations, navigate through transitions and crisis management, while prompting transformational collective action among individuals, institutions, and communities to bring about mutually beneficial change, which is her distinguishing trait.
Ottley is the recipient of numerous awards including Five Emmy Awards, Crain?s NY 100 Most Powerful Minority Business Leaders, and two PRSA Golden Apple Awards for Financial Literacy Advertising Campaigns. Recently, Donald Trump selected Ottley for inclusion in his book ?The Best Advice I Ever Received.? Ottley has written two handbooks: ?20 Minute Professional and Personal Marketing Plan;? and ?99 Strategies for Marketing Success? with accompanying interactive workshops and a customized New Directions PR Lab. Consistently her clients commend her expertise in giving them innovative, competitive edge strategies for success. Her client list currently consists of GE, DuPont, Exelon/PECO for speech writing and executive coaching services. A partial listing of institutional advancement and executive management services include Better Family Life, Inc., a national model for revitalizing urban communities; Lou Brock, National Baseball Hall of Famer; Michael Jones Foundation, former St. Louis RAMS; and VanJo Productions?: If This Hat Could Talk, a musical on the Civil Rights Movement based on the life of Dr. Dorothy I. Height, Chair Emeriti of the National Council of Negro Women.
Ottley holds a Masters Degree from Southern Illinois University where she was unanimously selected as Alumnae of the Year for the School of Communications. She also holds the certificate of clinical competence and the healing arts; and a certificate in Business Management from the Kellogg Center at Northwestern University. C. Ottley is currently based in St. Louis, Mo and continues to represent companies and notable individuals nation-wide.