Ward Creative Leadership

Deborah Ward Buks, APR President

Deborah Buks brings 25 years of experience to her clients, which range from consumer goods and manufacturers to healthcare and energy-related businesses.

She has worked in a variety of industries to further client goals through creative communications techniques, and her training in accounting enables her to complement clients' bottom-line business sense.

Before opening the agency in 1990, Deborah's experience included tenure as a vice president in the Houston office of Hill and Knowlton. There, she handled proactive marketing communications programs, crisis situations, the State of Texas Sesquicentennial Celebration and media speaker training.

She also managed the public relations division of one of Houston's leading creative advertising agencies, where she led corporate identification programs, special event management, employee training, video production and media relations campaigns for a variety of clients.

At Burson-Marsteller and Vollmer Public Relations, Deborah handled successful programs for local, national and international clients. Her work has received more than 50 peer-judged honors from the International Association of Business Communicators, Public Relations Society of America, Women in Communications Inc., American Advertising Federation, Society for Technical Communications, and the Houston Advertising Federation.

Deborah is Accredited in Public Relations (APR) by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and a member of that organization's Counselors' Academy. An honors graduate of The University of Texas with a bachelor's degree in Journalism/Public Relations, she has also taught technical writing at the University of Houston and has conducted numerous seminars on public speaking, creativity and effective public relations.