Donna Fleishman

While she’s known in the business community as the PR pro who pulls oxen out of ditches, Donna Fleishman says she’d rather teach the oxen how to avoid the ditches and how best to fill the holes. From crisis management to new product launches, from brand management to sports sponsorships, she has more than two decades of PR agency experience. Donna spent the last two years as public relations counsel to the Georgia Aquarium, the world’s largest aquarium, in preparation for the opening, and she continues to provide PR counsel to the Aquarium. Previously, Donna owned her own PR firm, Fleishman & DiRico, for thirteen years. The agency was named “Best Run Agency” in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle for two years in a row. Donna received major national awards for her work on Courtyard and Hasbro’s Cabbage Patch kids and was named “Business Diva 2006” by Business-to-Business Magazine. She graduated from the University of Texas.