M.N. Miller
Communications Strategy · New York City

Strategic initiatives. Public affairs. Trust & safety. Crisis communications.

Myles Miller. Communications strategist. duPont-Columbia Award. Three-time Emmy Award. Spokesman for the Fire Department of the City of New York. Counsel to the executives of Meta and Accenture.

duPont-Columbia Award3× Emmy AwardFormer FDNY Spokesman
Service Guide

Four services. One destination: the complicated, made clear.

AAI

Meta research and infrastructure. Accenture leadership on AI and reinvention. Service to investors, engineers and the public.

STrust & Safety

Senate testimony on child safety. Platform integrity. A patient-data breach, handled in the open.

RRapid Response & Crisis

First word for nine million New Yorkers. Rapid response for a platform under fire. Ireland’s lights, kept on.

GGovernment Affairs

Senate hearings. EU regulators. City Hall and Albany. Ministers in Dublin. A federal settlement.

9MNew Yorkers served
130M+Annual reach, FDNY social
20K+Irish customers enrolled
€135MSaved. Blackouts averted.
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AI

A Service. AI explained to investors, regulators, engineers and the public. Runs at all times.

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Regional banking, Japan

Half of Japan’s regional banks were on course for losses within a decade. Wrote the story of a bank’s move to fully digital service, explaining the strategy to executives and the change to customers.

3D content, entertainment

Communications for a tool that turns real-world spaces into 3D content for a global entertainment brand, translating photogrammetry into what it means for guests and creative teams.

The virtual-world pipeline

Launch narrative for a patented system that catalogs 3D content and deploys it to any virtual world, told for clients who had never heard the word “photogrammetry.”

AI for inclusion

Storytelling for AI and augmented-reality assistants that help people with cognitive disabilities learn and hold jobs on assembly lines.

Green software

Internal and client communications for a program that trained 30% of the technology workforce in sustainable software, influenced more than $1 billion in sales and cut more than 3 million tons of emissions.

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Trust & Safety

S Service. Accountability and explanation, together. Runs at all times.

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Inclusive sport

Communications for a mobile app that connected 300 athletes, with and without disabilities, from 20 countries at an international tournament.

Women in the workforce

A book, e-book, landing page and podcast series telling the stories of women building careers in technology.

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Rapid Response & Crisis

R Service. The first minutes decide whether facts or fear fill the gap. Runs 24 hours.

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Refugees from Ukraine

When a national railway began carrying refugees out of the war, built the communications in days: an information website answering urgent questions and a virtual agent, plus an employee donation drive.

National grid, Ireland

Keeping five million people’s lights on through the 2022 energy crisis. Transfer to ESB Networks →

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Government Affairs

G Service. Washington, City Hall, Albany, Dublin and Brussels. Runs at all times.

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Rural commerce, India

For one of India’s state-run fuel retailers: the story of rural women trained as selling agents through a mobile app, bringing everyday goods to villages, with a target of 10,000 stations and more than $1 billion in new revenue.

Tech skills, the Philippines

Communications for a technology academy run with public and provincial universities that trained more than 5,000 students, including people from marginalized communities; more than 500 started careers at the firm.

Meta · Rapid Response & Crisis · Public Affairs · Business Comms

The world’s largest platform. Under pressure.

A Senate hearing on child safety. A new app-store toll on small business. European courts rewriting the rules for ads. Investors questioning the AI spend. Often in the same quarter.

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The job

Trust in the business. Protected.

Public affairs and business communications for Meta’s advertising and infrastructure businesses. The work meant keeping advertisers, investors, regulators and engineers confident while the company was making headlines for other reasons.

AStation 1

Senate Judiciary Committee. Child safety.

The CEO was called to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee alongside other social-platform leaders. Objective: lead the narrative going in. Do not react coming out.

Pre-brief the Hill. Background sessions with Capitol Hill print and broadcast reporters, plus one-on-ones with beat reporters, to get ahead of the lines lawmakers were expected to use.
Editorial boards. Briefings with national editorial boards on the company’s federal policy proposal before the hearing.
Show the receipts. Embargoed written testimony for key reporters, and a month-long run of product and partnership announcements on teen safety.
Keep advertisers steady. Reactive messaging, fact sheets and triage guidance for sales teams, so brands heard from Meta first.
AStation 2

App-store toll. Small business.

A platform rule change meant boosting a post inside an iOS app would carry a 30% fee. Small businesses were the ones exposed.

  • An external plan steering advertisers to desktop and mobile web, where the fee did not apply.
  • Embargoed pitches, a blog post, advertiser emails, help-center content and sales guidance, timed to a phased rollout.
  • A region-by-region approach as the change expanded worldwide.

Coverage centered on the impact to small businesses and how to avoid the fee: the story the plan set out to tell.

AStation 3

Europe. New rules for ads.

A landmark EU court ruling on data protection and competition, and the arrival of the Digital Markets Act, put personalized advertising in Europe in question.

  • Scenario planning ahead of the court’s judgment, with messaging ready for each possible outcome.
  • Press backgrounders and executive talking points as the company changed its legal basis for ads in the EU, with one constant message: advertisers can still reach customers.
  • Sales and advertiser communications for new ad-pricing and measurement transparency tools.
AStation 4

Confidence. Advertisers, investors, engineers.

A standing program to build confidence in the business and its infrastructure with three audiences: advertisers, investors and engineers. It covered earnings moments, small-business stories, new subscription products, data-center openings and custom AI silicon. Results were measured by how often coverage carried the intended message.

AStation 5

The AI narrative.

Hard technology. Plain language. With researchers and technical leads, unpacked self-supervised learning, Transformer models, open-source releases and multimodal AI, explaining both how they work and why they matter to experts and general readers alike.

Accenture · Executive Comms · Government

Transformation, translated. Boards. Ministers. The C-suite.

Accenture’s executives and Fortune 500 clients needed someone who could turn complex transformations into messages customers, investors and stakeholders act on.

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CEOBriefings and talking points
WEFDavos. Foresight launch.
CEO& Global Management Committee
F500Executives coached
GStation 1

Ireland. Transfer here.

The blackout-prevention campaign for ESB Networks. Transfer to ESB Networks →

GStation 2

Executive communications.

  • Messaging frameworks for the CEO and Global Management Committee across earnings calls, board presentations, policy forums and media.
  • Keynotes, Congressional testimony prep and talking points for Fortune 100 CEOs and government officials.
On stage with Accenture leadership.
GStation 3

CEO and client briefings.

Communications lead for the firm’s premier global client recognition program. Prepared the CEO and Global Management Committee with client intelligence and talking points, and coached Fortune 500 executives to tell the story of their own transformations to peer CEOs.

GStation 4

Thought leadership. Transfer here.

Foresight, executive positioning and research — Next station: transfer to Thought Leadership →

FDNY · Rapid Response & Crisis · Media Relations · Digital

Emergency information. 24 hours. All boroughs.

Fire Department, City of New York. Nine million residents. 17,000 employees. A $2 billion budget. No off-hours.

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9MNew Yorkers
17KEmployees
1.3M+Social followers
130M+Annual reach
The job

Spokesman. Busiest fire department on earth.

The FDNY needed a communications executive who could run strategic and crisis communications at a scale few organizations ever face: fires, building collapses, mass-casualty incidents and the slow-burning stories — response times, data, equity — that shape public trust between them.

Briefing reporters alongside FDNY leadership.
Crisis 1 · June 2019

Helicopter down. Midtown.

June 2019. A rainy afternoon. A helicopter crashes onto a Manhattan rooftop. This city remembers 2001. In the first minutes, facts or fear will fill the gap.

Immediate engagement. Prompt updates to media and public kept speculation from outrunning the facts.
First word. As lead spokesperson, delivered clear, accurate information before misinformation could spread.
One voice. Coordinated with the NYPD and other agencies so New Yorkers heard a consistent account.
Executive communications. Briefed Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Fire Commissioner on their remarks.
Crisis 2 · 2019

EMS data breach.

Information on thousands of EMS patients was potentially exposed when an employee broke data-security policy. The response had to be transparent, compliant and reassuring at once.

  • Worked with the HIPAA compliance division on a full response strategy.
  • Timely notification of affected patients as regulations required.
  • Free credit monitoring and employee retraining.
The story broke in the New York Post; the notification letter went to every affected patient.
“This was not a hacking, but a loss of data caused by one employee’s failure to follow the department’s data security policies.”
Myles Miller, FDNY spokesman
FDNY Operations Center — where real-time updates began.
Digital

A newsroom on social.

Expanded FDNY across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube with safety tips, behind-the-scenes access and the stories of members — and real-time updates when incidents broke. Followers grew past 1.3 million with 130 million+ annual reach.

On scene. On the phone. In the field.
FDNY · DEI Communications · Digital

An FDNY that looks like New York.

2014. A federal settlement over discrimination against minority applicants. The department must remake how it recruits.

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The mandate

Recruitment. All neighborhoods.

Black and Hispanic New Yorkers, and women, had long been underrepresented in the FDNY. The settlement required reparations and systemic change; communications had to reach people who had never pictured themselves in the job.

#JoinFDNY. A social strategy built to create community and spark inspiration among potential recruits.
Text JoinFDNY. Lowering the barrier to the first step — one text.
#FDNYFit. Free, accessible prep for the physical test, widening the pool of candidates.
Role models. FDNY Women and Black EMS Chiefs showcased leaders young New Yorkers could see themselves in.
Equity

Programs. Then action.

  • The Firefighter Candidate Mentorship Program, told through the journeys of future firefighters.
  • Messaging and thought leadership for the FDNY Task Force on Racial Equity.
  • Fire-safety information in more languages for every New Yorker.
Heritage-month campaigns and lithium-ion battery safety in Simplified Chinese.
Callisto Media · DEI&B

Belonging. Built into a publisher.

Integrated diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging into Callisto Media’s core values and operating strategy.

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Gender equity

#InternationalWomensDay

A cross-channel campaign on progress toward gender parity and the path still ahead, positioning Callisto as a leader on gender equality in publishing.

In-store displays and the women authors behind them.
Action

Humble Bundle

A communications strategy built on zero tolerance for racism, bigotry or hate, backed by action: Callisto contributed Black Women in Science to the Humble Bundle charity initiative supporting racial and ethnic equality.

ESB Networks · Rapid Response & Crisis · Government Affairs

Ireland. Blackouts ahead. One question.

Winter 2022. War in Ukraine. Europe’s gas in doubt. Ireland’s grid at its limit at the evening peak. Rolling blackouts a real prospect.

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5MPeople. Lights kept on.
~20KHouseholds signed up in six months
~14KHomes powered for an hour at peak
€135MPotential savings, 2022–24
RStation 1

The problem.

ESB Networks needed millions of households to change their habits, fast, without frightening a country already anxious about energy prices. Lecturing people about the grid would not work.

RStation 2

One question.

Ask it every time someone reaches for the dishwasher, the washing machine or the iron: “Is this a good time?” One message, repeated everywhere, built for every customer whoever their supplier, with Electric Ireland supporting ESB Networks’ Beat the Peak programme.

Roadside. Billboards at the evening commute.
Stations. Screens where people wait.
Shopping centres. Panels where people spend.
At home. Text and email tips: when it is a good time, and when it is not.
GStation 3

Stakeholders.

Communications ran up to government ministers and EU regulators, so the people responsible for the grid heard the same simple story the public did.

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Result.

Nearly 20,000 households signed up in six months. Enough power freed to run nearly 14,000 homes for an hour at peak. About €37 a year saved per customer, up to €135 million for consumers between 2022 and 2024, and a potential blackout headed off.

USPAACC · Government Relations · Communications

The voice of Asian American business. Washington to Main Street.

The U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce. Nearly four decades connecting Asian American and minority-owned businesses to Fortune companies and federal, state and local government. A pandemic. A federal recovery program. A community that needed a louder voice.

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$5MSBA grant, up to
Tier 1National grantee
5Regional spokes
4Fortune sponsors: Meta, Google, Amazon, Wells Fargo
GStation 1

The organization.

USPAACC is the most established national Asian American chamber of commerce. It certifies Asian American businesses and connects them to corporate buyers and government agencies at every level. After the pandemic, small businesses were hit hardest, and corporate America pledged billions to supplier diversity. The Chamber had leverage, and needed to use it.

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Government relations. The SBA.

The American Rescue Plan created the Small Business Administration’s $100 million Community Navigator Pilot Program, the largest federal investment ever in navigator services for small businesses. USPAACC was named a Tier 1 national grantee, with up to $5 million, as the hub for partner “spokes” in California, Texas, Georgia, New York/New Jersey and Illinois.

  • Managed the Chamber’s relationship with the SBA on the program.
  • Communications connecting underserved Asian American, minority, women- and veteran-owned businesses with pandemic relief and recovery services.
  • Ran the webinar series that put SBA officials and Chamber leadership in front of business owners nationwide.
The brand, refreshed.
GStation 3

CelebrASIAN.

Planned CelebrASIAN, the Chamber’s premier event and the largest, longest-running business development conference for Pan Asian Americans: three days connecting entrepreneurs with corporate procurement leaders, federal agencies and elected officials. Also created the identity and campaign for the Innovation Symposium.

CelebrASIAN Procurement + Business Conference.
GStation 4

Executive communications.

Managed communications between the Chamber’s CEO and executives at Meta, Google, Amazon and Wells Fargo, the relationships that turned into sponsorship of the Innovation Symposium.

The Innovation Symposium, with its sponsors.
GStation 5

Digital.

  • Developed the Chamber’s website and microsites for its key initiatives and its conference.
  • Built the website for its women’s small-business empowerment initiative, giving Asian American and minority women business owners a place to meet, build skills and grow.
  • Refreshed the logo and flyers into one consistent, modern system.
Flyers. Before and after.
Accenture · Thought Leadership

Accenture ideas. Delivered to the people who run the world.

Content strategy, editorial frameworks and executive positioning that made Accenture’s leaders authoritative voices on AI, enterprise reinvention, cybersecurity and digital transformation.

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WEFWorld Economic Forum
Tier 1Business press placements
16Cities in transit study
6,200+Riders surveyed
AStation 1

Accenture Foresight.

Led development of Foresight, the firm’s thought-leadership app — the content strategy and editorial framework behind it. Readers chose their own path: read, watch or listen. Launched at Davos, it became the company’s main channel for intellectual engagement with clients, backed by out-of-home and digital campaigns. Foresight won the firm’s top global award in its category.

Curated. An editor’s pick of the firm’s best thinking.
Make it your own. Readers follow the topics they care about.
Listen on the go. Every idea in the format that fits the reader.
Live discussions. From content to conversation.
Foresight launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
AStation 2

Thought Leadership Forum.

As Senior Manager, Broadcast, ran corporate video out of Accenture’s New York studio, including the Thought Leadership Forum, where the firm’s leaders and outside voices took on the big questions in business and technology on camera. It also covered the Built for Change podcast, which carried the same thinking into long-form conversation.

  • Producing the Forum end to end, from shaping the conversations to on-set direction and post.
  • Managing broadcast and studio operations in New York.
  • Cutting every conversation down for Foresight, social and client channels.
AStation 3

Executive positioning.

  • Thought-leadership strategy positioning executives on AI, enterprise reinvention, cybersecurity and digital transformation.
  • Placements in tier-one business publications and invitations to the World Economic Forum and similar platforms.
  • Narratives for policy forums, keynotes and engagements with Fortune 100 CEOs and international leaders.
AStation 4

Research. Transit after COVID.

Led content development and analysis for Accenture’s public-transit study of how COVID-19 changed rider behavior across 16 global cities — turning survey data from 6,200+ passengers into guidance for operators facing 70% ridership declines.

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