Meet Jeanne Culver of Culver Public Relations

I wanted to be in communications and PR since high school. I was lucky to be invited into a program in high school where I was matched with a professional in the career I was interested in. For an entire semester, I spent full school days with the Vice President of Communications for the Dallas Independent School District.

I was given a wide range of responsibilities and learned a lot about crisis communications, pitching events, scheduling interviews, and building relationships with journalists. After that semester, I was dedicated to a career in Public Relations.

After graduating from Trinity University in San Antonio, my first job was as the editor of a weekly financial newsletter in California which taught me to be very precise with details, information, and deadlines. It was critical that all of the information I included in the newsletter was accurate as one did not want to make mistakes reporting anything about investments to subscribers who were paying a lot of money to read the newsletter.

I loved California, but moved back home to Texas and was the marketing director for a commercial real estate company where I learned all the different areas of marketing, how to negotiate contracts, and hire and manage a marketing department. I had our second daughter and looking back, was a pioneer in working from home and taking a child to work.

I told the president of the company that I was having childcare difficulties and it was going to be a week or two more before I returned to the office. I asked if I could work from home and the next day a computer was delivered to my house. When I did go back to the office it was on a flexible schedule with me walking in with our infant daughter in a stroller who spent the day with me in my office.

I left commercial real estate and after a few years as an active community volunteer, I reached out to my contacts in the PR field and soon began freelancing for agencies. Not too long after I began freelancing, it became full time and I loved the variety of clients.

I decided I wanted to work directly with clients, took a big leap of faith, and opened Culver Public Relations without any accounts.  Soon I had my first account and have added wonderful new team members and accounts since that first scary month.

It was my dream to have my own agency, have a family, and support other women in their careers. I believe that everything wonderful starts with a dream. And you back it up with a lot of work.