Jayne Davis

Jayne Davis is an experienced communications strategist, writer, editor, and manager with more than 35 years translating client objectives into successful communications initiatives. She brings project management insight and execution to SDI client missions and has concentrated experience in strategic communications, special events, stakeholder outreach, and partnership building for the firm’s clients. Davis joins the leadership management team overseeing client teams, subcontractors, and budget responsibilities for the effective execution of clients’ strategic communications objectives. She develops and manages the firm’s internship program.

Davis built a successful track record guiding client services for numerous entities, including the American Battle Monuments Commission, an executive agency, and the Department of Defense agency, Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve account, managing and directing an internal team of communications professionals and interfacing directly with agency leads. She helped bring the nation’s hidden military caregivers into the open through profiling the Elizabeth Dole Foundation and Fellows in a lengthy exclusive for The Washington Times. Prior to that Ms. Davis headed the onsite SDI communications team supporting the Department of Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCOE). She worked directly with the DCoE public affairs officer, where she provided editorial direction for the website and content team to capture and promote client assets, wrote and edited internal and external messaging for the agency’s web and social media platforms, and engaged with the center’s public affairs and media leads, subject matter experts, and external partner organizations to inform content strategy and increase access to critical information needed by target audiences.

Earlier, Davis held various communications positions in government and corporate and professional organizations, including a liaison position in the White House Office of Congressional Affairs, managing written communications between Members of Congress and the Executive Branch.