John Martin McDonald
Founder | Caeli Communications
John Martin McDonald is the founder of Caeli Communications, a strategic communications consultancy specializing in crisis management and communications leadership. With more than 40 years communications experience, McDonald is a recognized expert in aviation and corporate crisis management. From plane crashes to employee kidnappings, a visit of the Pope to the revolving doors of CEO resignations, McDonald has been on the ‘firing line’ of dozens of business emergencies.
Starting as a line flight attendant at TWA in the 1980s, he served four airlines and several non-airline Fortune 500 companies in a number of communications leadership roles. He retired as the Vice President of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at the world’s largest carrier, American Airlines.
McDonald is an avid motorcyclist and with his wife Pamela, splits his year between homes in Mesa, AZ and Frankfort, MI. They have an eight-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Bayley.
His memoir The Sky Is Not Falling: Triumph, Tragedy and My Fast Life in Public Relations is available on Amazon.