Mary Beth West

Based in the U.S. and with 30 years of public relations experience, Mary Beth West, APR, FPRCA, (www.marybethwest.com) delivers competitive impact for organizations through the power of strategic management, communication, and relationship-building.

Her insights on public relations, ethics and workforce issues have been included in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, the USA Today Network, Business Insider, PRweek, PR News, Strategic, and other business publications.

Mary Beth has spoken at conferences and conclaves across the United States as well as in Vienna, Austria; Dubai, UAE; Warsaw, Poland; Paris, France; and Belgrade, Serbia.

She has built an international reputation for change-agentry – particularly on matters related to taking a public stand for communications and business ethics, non-profit financial disclosures, whistleblower protection, and anti-retaliation.

Awarded Fellows status in the London-based Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) in 2022, she served on the board of management of the International Communications Consultancy Organisation (ICCO) and is now closely affiliated with the International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC).

Mary Beth served as a founding member and co-chair of the PRCA Global Ethics Council, through which she forged international partnerships to quantify standards of ethical practice in the global industry. In 2023, Mary Beth released a new PR industry ethics code white paper, in partnership with original research conducted by the London-based Institute of Business Ethics, analyzing 24 PR industry ethics codes worldwide to identify key points of differentiation as well as uniformity across diverse cultures.

Mary Beth was the signature sponsor of the Greater Washington, D.C.-based Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI) Business Integrity Library, a searchable database launched in 2023 to catalog and share ethical best-practices as adopted by many of the largest industry leaders in the world.

Mary Beth is a key benefactor of the Global Strategic Communication Consortium based at the University of South Carolina, supporting public relations scholarship led by academicians internationally.