Joshua T. Want

Strategic-creative hybrid business leader with 17 years driving growth through visual and written storytelling. Built and managed digital third-party creative team, led sustainability reporting, corporate website and intranet redesign and international industry-wide public relations creative and strategy initiatives. Currently serving high-net-worth clients in real estate investment and advisory services while leveraging extensive corporate experience in energy, chemicals, and manufacturing sectors. Early in his career, Josh spent 7 years as an award-winning professional commercial and wedding photographer.

Before stepping full-time into real estate, Josh spent 15 years in executive communications roles, for global organizations with revenues from $600MM-$2B. His notable accomplishments include co-leading a $30MM full-stack media campaign to increase public adoption rates for plastics recycling, launching a new technology brand, expanding franchise growth by 10%, managing partner relationships with McKinsey & Co., and co-scripted an episode for The Discovery Channel.

Most recently Josh led creative-services, marketing and corporate communications for a $2 billion plastics producer, marketing products for a variety of industries including medical research, foodservice and consumer goods. Led storytelling and visual media and photo/video team and public-relations for seven manufacturing sites in the U.S. and Colombia. Reported to the Executive team and worked closely with the President & CEO.

Key accomplishments include:

• Collaboratively implemented multi-million industry marketing campaign with over 1BN impressions, 500K unique monthly visitors, and 250K engaged users with contact information (in coordination with partners)

• Led sustainability communications strategy to educate consumers on single-use plastic waste solutions, working closely with the American Chemistry Council (ACC), Foam Recycling Coalition, Foodservice Packaging Institute, and others

• Built marketing program and web presence for joint-venture, along with partner Agilyx (a leading global sustainability company) to operate the world’s largest advanced recycling facility

• Directed, scripted, planned and assisted with production of Discovery Channel program “Tomorrow’s World Today” episode featuring advanced recycling, airing in 2019

• Procured and managed relationships with business strategy partners, including McKinsey & Co. and BCW

• Led corporate sustainability messaging for the company, its joint-venture, partner organizations, and internal communications. Website visitors ~5-10K/mo

• Lobbied for advanced recycling in Washington, D.C. to increase public support and government funding for recycling infrastructure projects

• Developed crisis management and media training program for emergency events, providing 5 training events with ~40 associates trained

• Built new company intranet and websites, including creation of multi-media interactivity, graphics, photo and video

• Piloted community involvement program, raising $1.5MM for local charities