Joyce Aboussie
Joyce Aboussie is the founder and CEO of Aboussie & Associates, a strategic consulting firm serving Fortune 500 CEOs and public and private corporations nationwide. She also founded and serves as the CEO of Telephone Contact Inc., a market research and consulting firm.
Aboussie’s clients include national and international corporations; cultural institutions; labor organizations; sports and entertainment organizations; and legal professionals. Aboussie also has major clients in public and regulated industries, including communications and telecommunications; education; health care; utilities; and transportation. Her companies provide services including business development, market research, branding, mobile strategies, multi-platform communications, and strategic initiatives.
Political Career
Joyce Aboussie has been actively involved in politics since 1977. In 1978 she launched her first campaign management and research firm while attending St. Louis University. Aboussie later served as National Political Director for Congressman Dick Gephardt and was at the top of Gephardt’s political organization for nearly 30 years. She has played a pivotal role in electing Democrats at every level of government nationwide, ranging from mayors to governors, members of Congress, U.S. senators, and presidents of the United States. She has managed and consulted on more than 500 political campaigns throughout the years, with an 80% win record.
Recognition
In 2006, the St. Louis Business Journal honored Joyce as one of the “Most Influential Business Women”. Joyce Aboussie is “respected by top Republicans as well as Democrats as someone with the technology and staff at her fingertips to reach thousands…in one night’s time,” read the 8/18/96 St. Louis Post-Dispatch article on the “25 Most Influential St. Louisans”. She has also been named by both St. Louis Magazine and St. Louis Business Journal as one of “40 people under 40” who make a difference in St. Louis.
Among Joyce’s many achievements are her assistance in bringing the Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse to downtown St. Louis and when she helped broker the deal that brought the Los Angeles Rams to St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has called her one of the most influential Democrats in the state.
“The best ideas have a strong foundation built from countless conversations with people who have diverse backgrounds and perspectives”.
Joyce Aboussie
Community Involvement
In 1983, Aboussie became the youngest person ever elected to the National Boards of Directors and Governors of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. In 2006, she was elected the first woman Chairperson of the ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Board of Directors and Governors. St. Jude, based in Memphis, Tennessee is the largest health care charity in the nation, and was founded by the late entertainer, Danny Thomas. After over four decades of service, Aboussie credits St. Jude in guiding her life-long purpose. Today, Aboussie remains committed to supporting and promoting the important work being done by St. Jude.
