Marketing Communications Counsel, LLC

Marketing Communications Counsel, LLC was founded in 1981 to help our clients reach their marketing and communications objectives. Ever mindful of change, in 2011, we focused our name on "Marketing" to better reflect our corporate mission in service to our clients. Today we use new media tools and creativity to help organizations, companies and communities connect to and communicate with the people who matter most to them.

We work side-by-side with our clients building consensus, helping to resolve conflicts, solving communications challenges and launching new programs.

Our clients include local governments, manufacturers of highly-engineered products, entrepreneurial-based businesses and associations / nonprofit organizations.

Ron Baker

Ron Baker has more than 40 years of experience in planning, as well as providing media relations, internal and external public relations, web / mobile / social media design and development, marketing and sales services to a variety of local governments, major companies, small businesses, nonprofit and professional organizations in a wide spectrum of industries. He founded MCC, LLC in 1981. He has served as Senior Vice President – Marketing for Inacomp Computer Centers, Inc. and as acting President of Inacomp Computer Centers Michigan Region, where he supervised operations of 23 Inacomp locations.

Baker also has been Vice President in the public relations firm of Anthony M. Franco, Inc. and Communications Manager of Eaton Corporation Automotive Components Group with overall responsibility for communications programs in 11 major divisions. He began his career as a broadcast journalist and is a graduate of the University of Akron. While employed with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., The Goodyear Bank and Eaton Corp., Baker received his early business marketing and finance training. Baker is an experienced print and electronic media creative director, graphic artist, website designer and programmer having created, designed, programmed and managed hundreds of print projects and over 100 websites for automotive suppliers, professional service corporations,local governments and civic organizations.

From 1973 through 1977, he was executive director, and a founder of International Soap Box Derby, Inc. the 501-C-3 organization that restructured and established funding for the All-American Soap Box Derby youth program. He served in the U.S. Army as a medic.

Dr. Robert Slattery, MD

Dr. Robert Slattery is a skilled practitioner, helping patients understand how they view themselves and how they interact with their world in order to better cope, adapt and transform themselves. With more than 20 years in private practice, he has worked with people of diverse socio-economic backgrounds and ethnicities. He is a leading innovator in providing practical and highly skilled mental health support to university and college students, as well as to the general public.

Educated at Yale College and the University of Pennsylvania, School Medicine, Dr. Robert Slattery MD is a long-time student of the work of Dr. Carl Jung. He is in the private practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Prior to his medical training he was a documentary filmmaker.