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April is National Volunteer Month. In this episode, Claire Riggs, Managing Partner at Riggs Creative Group LLC, takes us beyond the boardroom and into the community, sharing how brands can inspire meaningful employee involvement in volunteerism. It all starts with listening and learning.

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Claire Riggs serves as a Managing Partner of Riggs Creative Group LLC, a strategic communication, integrated marketing and design, and relationship management firm, located in Sewell, NJ. She has been a part of the Gloucester County community for more than three decades and finds great fulfillment in leading a team of strategists and creatives who help clients develop and share their brand stories through traditional and digital media.

An Adjunct Professor at Rowan University’s Ric Edelman College of Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences’ Public Relations and Advertising Department, she also delights in instructing and guiding our next generation of advertising, public relations and integrated marketing communication professionals in their quest to become strategic writers, ethical thinkers, and socially responsible leaders.  A founding member of Leadership Gloucester County (Lead GC), a collaborative with the United Way of Gloucester County, the County of Gloucester, and Rowan College of South Jersey, Riggs finds great fulfillment in fashioning and facilitating sessions that ensure our next generation of business and non-profit leaders have the understanding and empathy needed to effectively serve our community.

Prior to joining Riggs Creative Group LLC and Rowan University in 2016, Ms. Riggs served as the Public Affairs Director at Axeon Specialty Products, where she provided executive guidance and directed the strategic communication program for this 230-employee, multiple-location, petroleum-based specialty products company. She fulfilled similar responsibilities as Regional Public Affairs Manager at NuStar Energy LP through 2012, and as Public Affairs Manager at Valero’s Paulsboro Refinery (now PBF’s Paulsboro Refinery) from 1999 through 2008. Throughout her career in the petrochemical industry, Ms. Riggs worked to develop and support community engagement through open communication, effective partnerships, philanthropic outreach and volunteer programs. In her external and government affairs capacities, she served on national, regional, and state industry boards and committees.

Ms. Riggs holds a Master of Arts degree in Public Relations from Rowan University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Temple University. A Leadership New Jersey (Lead NJ) Fellow, she currently serves on the Board of Directors for Acenda Integrated Health, the United Way of Gloucester County, and Women Empowered International, and co-facilitates the monthly Wednesday Eve Women’s Group Ministry of the Gloucester County Prayer Committee. She’s held prior board positions at Appel Farm Arts & Music Campus, Creativity Collaboratory Charter School, and Citizens Diplomacy International – Philadelphia (now World Affairs Council of Philadelphia).

Ms. Riggs celebrates 40 years of marriage to Steven Riggs, her partner in life and business. They have four children, two daughters-in-law, and eight grandchildren. Her passions include women’s ministry, travel, family gatherings, and spending time in nature.