About Berger Strategic Communications
Experienced Communications Leadership, Directly Applied.
Berger Strategic Communications helps businesses, organizations and individuals turn complex ideas into clear stories—and carry those stories through strategy, writing, design, photography, video and other practical communications work.
The company was launched in spring 2021 after Jeff Berger spent more than 30 years in corporate environments. The idea was straightforward: give overloaded communications teams experienced support and give smaller organizations access to senior-level communications leadership without requiring a full department.
The Business
Built to Work Alongside Your Team.
Berger Strategic Communications can step into a defined project, a campaign or an ongoing fractional role. The work begins with the objective and the audience, then moves into the combination of planning and production that will be most useful.
Clients work directly with Jeff throughout the assignment. That keeps decisions close to the work and makes it easier to connect strategy with the finished materials—whether the need is a message framework, a leadership communication, a publication, a visual library or a multimedia story.
Experience
A Career Across Strategy and Production.
Before starting the business, Jeff spent 25 years at Discover Financial Services in roles spanning internal communications, executive communications, innovation storytelling and multimedia production. He built an in-house multimedia function and studio, developed communications for senior leaders and produced work supporting corporate priorities, employee programs and external partnerships.
That experience included photography and video connected to major sponsorships such as the Orange Bowl and professional sports, along with writing and multimedia work for C-suite executives. It also shaped the way Berger Strategic Communications works today: understand the business need first, then choose and execute the right communications approach.
Community
Local Leadership Is Part of the Perspective.
Jeff has lived in Carol Stream since 1999 and is serving a second term as a Village Trustee, with a term of office through April 2029. He also serves as president of the Carol Stream Chamber of Commerce, where he participated in the chamber’s 2024 rebrand and relaunch, and is a board member of the Rotary Club of Carol Stream.
Those roles bring a practical understanding of how public institutions, businesses, volunteers and residents communicate with one another. They also reflect a long-standing commitment to strengthening the community in which the business operates.
Personal
Chicago-Area Roots, With a Broad View of the Work.
Jeff was born and raised in Homewood, Illinois, and has lived in the Chicago metropolitan area throughout his life. He and his wife married in 1992 and raised three children in Carol Stream, all now adults.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Purdue University and a master’s degree in journalism from Roosevelt University. That combination of business and journalism continues to inform his approach: understand what an organization needs to accomplish, ask the right questions and make the story clear to the people who need to hear it.
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