About Us
The Slevin Group is an award winning, nationally recognized corporate consulting practice. The Slevin Group’s innovative social strategies and civic engagement practices has earned the firm a national reputation for effectively winning community goodwill and government support for real estate interests.
The Slevin Group was awarded the PRSA Silver Anvil Award of Excellence, the public relation’s industry’s highest honor, for the firm’s issues and crisis management work during the Florida hurricane catastrophes. Patrick Slevin, a former mayor and founder of the Slevin Group, was selected as one of the nation’s top political “Movers & Shakers” by Campaigns & Elections Magazine.
The Slevin Group’s public engagement portfolio caught the attention of the Jack O’Dwyer’s Newsletter, which recognized the firm as, “A politically savvy PR and public affairs firm.”
ABOUT PATRICK SLEVIN
Patrick Slevin is an award-winning public relations executive presenting two decades of high-profile success in national and international communications. Mr. Slevin’s proven talent in political and public affairs encompasses C-Suite consultation, strategic development, integrated marketing communications, political marketing, project management, business development, and civic engagement.
In 1996, Mr. Slevin was elected the youngest mayor in the history of Safety Harbor, Florida (near Tampa) at the age of 27. In 1999, Mr. Slevin was recruited by national drugstore chain, Eckerd Corporation, to lead the company’s newly established public relations division. Before founding the Slevin Group in 2002, Mr. Slevin worked as the Southeast Regional Media Director for NFIB, National Federation of Independent Business.
Today, Mr. Slevin is a recognized NIMBY expert, speaker, and corporate consultant who has received national acclaim for his civic engagement programs. Corporate executives, developers, and landowners have benefited from Mr. Slevin’s political leadership and divergent experience as a former mayor, Fortune 500 executive, presidential campaign spokesman, national trade association media director and corporate consultant.
Mr. Slevin has successfully secured social equity for controversial projects at city hall and the ballot box on behalf of big box retailers, hoteliers, shopping centers, mining/aggregates, REITs, big builders, master planners, hospitals, alternative energy, insurance, and solid waste.
Mr. Slevin graduated from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Development with Public Leadership – Cum Laude. He was the recipient of the A.S.P.E.C. Excellence in Writing Award (Novelist James Michener was an ASPEC board member).
Mr. Slevin has attended and participated in the MIT-Harvard Law School Public Disputes & Negotiations Program – Dealing With an Angry Public.
Public Speaking
Patrick Slevin is a highly sought public speaker. He has spoken before dozens of organizations on the topics of Civic Engagement, NIMBYism, and Direct Democracy.
Past venues include ULI, NAIOP, ICSC, APA, HBA, 2009 Texas Housing Conference, Tennessee Municipal League, Florida Chamber, Housing Leadership Council of West Palm Beach, Association for Florida Community Developers, Volusia County Association for Responsible Development, Florida Planning and Zoning Association, Hillsborough Bar Association.
Presentation Titles:
- “Civic Engagement: Achieving Social Sustainability for
Controversial Real Estate Projects” - “Sustainable Civic Engagement: A New Paradigm for a Changing World”
- “Secrets to Neutralizing NIMBYism: Cover Your Grassroots”
- “Getting from NIMBY to APPROVED”
- “Citizen Participation: Friend or Foe to Florida’s Land Development?”
- “Hometown’s Trojan Horses: Winning the Ballot Box Wars”
- “How to Overcome NIMBYism”
Publications
- Moderation, Thy Name is Not Amendment 4, Orlando Sentinel, November 6, 2009
- What Cities Can Do About NIMBYism, Tennessee Town & City, June 18, 2008
- Time to Start Remediating Hometown Democracy’s “X” Factor, Florida Real Estate Journal, August 16-31, 2007
- Get Smart About NIMBY, Building Industry Association of Philadelphia, Nov. 2006
- NIMBY PR to the Rescue, PR News Crisis Management Guidebook, 2006 Edition
- Riding the NIMBY Dragon, Urban Land Magazine, January 2005
- NIMBYism: A Mandate for Citizen Participation?, Florida Bar Journal, Feb. 2004
- A NIMBY Counter-Strategy: Winning Votes with Community Affairs, Florida HomeBuilder, Nov./Dec. 2003
- Growth Referendum: Paving the Way for Special Interests?, The Journal of the James Madison Institute, Summer 2003