“The environment is the one issue that will require every society in the entire world to come together to help solve. The problem belongs to each and every one of us.”
-David R Lear

Throughout my entire life, there has been a soft, yet steady inner voice inside of me that has always told me that the problems of the world were mine...not mine by fault, but mine to help solve. Perhaps that inner voice that I refer to is what calls for my inherently curious nature about almost everything. As a child, I needed no coaxing to read everything I could get my hands on and was quite lucky to have had a family that strongly supported my highly cognitive nature.

Science became a true passion of mine and at the age of ten, I decided that I was going to be a scientist when I grew up. I had such a deep and sincere admiration for scientists. However, I saw science in a light that I think most other ten year olds didn’t and don’t see. I saw science for its potential use in solving the major problems of the world. Within my heart, I knew then that with the help of science and the efforts of scientists, I could help change the world, too.

Fast forwarding almost twenty years, when I look deep into my heart and soul I am the same ten year old boy with that lofty goal of changing the world. However, my years at Andover and DePaul altered my professional goals and aspirations significantly. Working in the accounting departments of some of Chicago’s most well-known firms and volunteering with some of the nation’s most respected non-profit organizations (even co-founding a non-profit myself) played an even greater role in the direction I ultimately chose to point my energies and passions.

The David R. Lear Public Relations, L.L.C. business model is the incorporation of everything I have learned from childhood to adulthood about science, business and society. The unique model is designed to embrace and utilize the knowledge acquired by others throughout their lives as well, to create a powerful, completely sustainable and responsible public relations practice.

As a child, I vividly remember hearing adults say, “It’s not my problem!” when it came to the problems and issues of others. To this day, I still cringe when I hear people proudly proclaim such a position. However, as an adult, I can proudly say that I am empowered with knowledge...scientific knowledge, business knowledge, and social knowledge to take a proactive position and do something to solve some of the problems of the world.

This is the soul and spirit of our company and I truly look forward to sharing it with you and the world.

David R. Lear, Chief Executive Officer