Audrey Cooling
Executive Vice President
I’m focused on getting results for my clients, because I’ve been in their shoes. In more than 20 years of managing high-stakes corporate communications and issue advocacy campaigns, I’ve learned that successful communications cannot happen in a silo. It requires careful coordination among stakeholders across the organization and a willingness to adapt your strategy when necessary. I try to be the type of consultant I valued most as a client: an integral partner and extension of the team, who is always pushing forward (and never just pushing paper).
At Lot Sixteen, I advise clients across a wide range of sectors – from leaders in energy and technology, to media and entertainment. Together, we’ve navigated everything from corporate rebrandings, restructurings, litigation and labor negotiations to advocacy around emerging issues like electricity market reform and artificial intelligence. I have extensive experience leading media relations, executive positioning, internal communications, message research, advocacy coalitions, crisis communications and targeted paid media programs. I work hard to win my clients’ trust, always looking for new ways to put that experience to work for them.
Previously, I served as 21st Century Fox’s vice president of public affairs. Based in DC, I worked to advance the company’s legislative and policy priorities, promoting creative content and talent from leading brands like FX, 20th Century Fox and National Geographic among political influencers across the globe. I also spent more than a decade at the Glover Park Group (GPG), where I managed some of the firm’s largest integrated accounts as a senior vice president in the strategic communications practice. Working alongside their executive leadership teams, lobbyists and legal counsel, I helped top brands in the media, healthcare, technology and retail sectors boost their corporate reputation in Washington, win approval for corporate mergers, build advocacy coalitions and respond to crises that were critical to their business operations.
Early in my career, I was a reporting assistant in the DC bureau of The Wall Street Journal and also a presidential campaign press secretary. I’m a native of Savannah, GA and a graduate of the University of Georgia. But my Southern accent has (mostly) faded after years of living in Washington, DC with my husband, David, and our three young daughters.
