Urban Call Briefs by Lafayette Jones
Grayson Mitchell
CEO/FOUNDER OF JOHNSON PRODUCTS
James Wealthy
THE CREATOR OF WEALTHY BROW LASH SYSTEM
Grayson Mitchell of Mitchell & Co.
Dr. Whitt-Glover
PRESIDENT AND CEO OF GRAMERCY RESEARCH GROUP
Elsie Cardell
OWNER OF RESULTS SALES & MARKETING, LLC
Chicago. Mitchell worked for the Washington Post from 1972 to 1973 and as Jet and
Grayson Mitchell
CEO/FOUNDER OF JOHNSON PRODUCTS
Grayson Mitchell was the first press
Ebony magazines’ Washington bureau editor until 1974. After a stint as
secretary for Chicago Mayor Harold
Washington columnist for Black Enterprise magazine, he became director
Washington, a political adviser during
of corporate communications in 1980 for Johnson Products in Chicago,
the Council Wars maelstrom and
according to Crain’s Chicago Business Publications.
trusted confidant to the CEO/Founder of Johnson Products (Ultra Sheen, Afro
For nearly 20 years, Mitchell served as the founding Chief Executive Officer
Sheen and Gentle Treatment Products).
of one of the leading consultancies in Chicago, Summit Consulting Group,
Mitchell recently passed at his Chicago
until it was acquired in 2005 by British holding company, Huntsworth. At
Southside home. He was 67.
Summit, Mitchell lobbied to block a Chicago casino on behalf of the horse racing and breeding industries. He provided counsel to a select roster of
Mitchell, who also was a consultant to Carol Moseley Braun’s historic
public and private sector clients as Managing Director of Mitchell & Co.,
U.S. Senate campaign in 1992, served two years in the Washington
LLC.
administration. Mitchell’s specialties include crisis management, reputation management, Mitchell was a highly accomplished corporate communications and public
civic engagement, issues management and public affairs strategy
affairs strategist, who provided counsel to a diversity of clients in many
development. Previous clients have included General Motors, G.E. Capital,
different industries and business sectors, from Fortune 500 corporations to
Northern Trust, Dave & Buster’s, United Airlines, Lockheed, ComEd,
newly emerging enterprises.
Public Service of Colorado, Texaco, Quaker Oats and Spiegel. Within the public sector, clients included the University of Illinois at Chicago,
Beginning his career as a journalist, Mitchell covered politics for the Sun-
Coalition of Organ and Tissue Transplant Network, National Association
Times in 1970 after winning an internship as a precocious Morehouse
of Securities Professionals, City of Chicago, Adventist Health Care System
College student. He later graduated from the University of Illinois at
and the Washington, D.C. Convention Center and Chicago Public Schools.
Chicago and pursued his post-graduate studies at Stanford University as a National Endowment for the Humanities’ Fellow, according to the
His most notable accomplishments have included principal strategist in
History Channel’s “HistoryMakers“. The Mobile, Alabama native received
securing electricity deregulation in Illinois, Chicago’s landmark public
an economics degree the following year from the University of Illinois at
housing “Plan for Transformation” redevelopment, and establishing
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