Jason Mudd is a professional public speaker, trusted adviser, and dynamic strategist for some of America’s most admired brands and fastest-growing companies. Since 1994, Jason has worked with American Airlines, Budweiser, Dave & Buster’s, H&R Block, Hilton, HP, Miller Lite, New York Life, Pizza Hut, Southern Comfort, and Verizon. He founded Axia Public Relations in 2002, ranked by Forbes as one of America’s Best PR Agencies.
Jason is an accredited public relations practitioner and a certified PR Measurement Master. Clients love his commitment, candor, innovation, passion, and award-winning team. His grasp of technological demands on companies in an increasingly tech-forward world provides his clients a competitive advantage in reaching their audiences. He taught himself HTML in 1994, helped pioneer internet marketing strategies as an early adopter of e-commerce and SEO in 1998 — inspiring Silicon Valley tech giants like Yahoo — and conceptualized Web 2.0 and social media in 2000.
In 2007, Mudd started podcasting. Today, he hosts and produces “On Top of PR” with Jason Mudd — a videocast about public relations topics, tips, and trends. It is one of the top 5% most popular podcast shows globally, according to ListenNotes' Listen Score, and among the top 100 marketing podcasts on Apple Podcasts. Episodes feature guests from Inc, Disney, Wells Fargo, Kroger, Carnival Cruise Line, Undercover Boss, Firehouse Subs, Wounded Warrior Project, PRWeek and more.
Mudd also writes about public relations best practices for 44 American City Business Journals across the U.S., public relations industry trade media, and other national business news outlets.
At Axia, Mudd attracts, develops, innovates, and leads top PR talent and clients. He oversees strategic communications strategies for the firm’s national clients, delivering high-level consultations to client leadership teams at billion-dollar global brands, both business-to-business and business-to-consumer, including spokesperson training, crisis communications management, analytics, social media, online reputation management, and more.
