Jeff Huggins

Jeff Huggins is a trusted communications advisor who helps organizations navigate growth, change, and complex business challenges with clarity and confidence. As a Fractional Chief Communications Officer with Altus CXO, he partners with CEOs, executive leadership teams, and boards to develop communication strategies that strengthen reputations, build stakeholder trust, and support long-term business objectives.

With nearly 40 years of experience in strategic communications and public relations, Jeff has built a career helping organizations tell their story in ways that inspire confidence and drive results. After spending more than two decades leading communications initiatives within advertising agencies, Jeff founded Huggins Consulting Group in 2009, where he provided senior-level strategic counsel to organizations across the country. Today, he brings that same executive-level perspective to Altus clients.

Jeff's experience spans executive communications, thought leadership, crisis preparedness and response, change communications, reputation management, stakeholder engagement, internal communications, and integrated marketing strategy. Whether guiding an organization through a merger, supporting an executive transition, launching a new initiative, or preparing for a high-profile issue, Jeff helps leaders communicate with purpose while keeping business goals at the forefront.

Throughout his career, Jeff has partnered with privately-held businesses, Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organizations, financial institutions, manufacturers, government agencies, nonprofits, educational institutions, and trade associations. He is known for helping organizations align communications with their strategy, ensuring employees, customers, community partners, and other key stakeholders receive clear, consistent, and meaningful messages.

Jeff earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications and Public Relations, with a minor in Business Administration, from the University of Northern Iowa. He has maintained his Accredited in Public Relations (APR) designation through the Public Relations Society of America since 1992 and has received numerous industry awards recognizing excellence in strategic communications, media relations, community engagement, and issues management.

Outside of work, Jeff enjoys cooking, entertaining family and friends, attending live music events, supporting local artists, and following football and college wrestling. He has remained actively involved in the communications profession throughout his career, serving in leadership and advisory roles with the Public Relations Society of America, the Iowa Society of Association Executives, and the University of Northern Iowa.