Todd Andrew Owings is an American public relations and advertising executive who founded OmniComm Marketing Group in Illinois. His career has included marketing communications, public relations, home-building associations, and later writing on operations, systems, work, and organizational life.
Background
Todd Andrew Owings was born on March 17, 1967, in Hinsdale, Illinois, to Virgil Walls Owings and Barbra Marie Wisniewski Owings. His background is rooted in the Chicago metropolitan area, where he later developed a career in marketing communications and public relations.
Owings has written autobiographically about the relationship between work, family life, fear, responsibility, and personal healing. These reflections form part of his later nonfiction writing rather than replacing the documented facts of his early family background.
Education
Owings received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Illinois State University in 1989. The university was founded in 1857 as Illinois State Normal University, Illinois' first public university, and originally concentrated on preparing teachers before developing into a comprehensive institution. Its English program provided the academic foundation for his later work in communications, advertising, and writing.
Career
Owings began his professional career in marketing communications. He was an account executive at Taylor-Johnson Marketing Communications, Inc., in Western Springs, Illinois, from 1989 to 1990, and then served as director of public relations at Raniere Company Advertising, Inc., in Oak Brook from 1990 to 1991.
In 1991 he founded OmniComm Marketing Group, Inc., in Naperville and became its president. His work placed him within the Chicago area's communications and advertising economy, where agencies connected organizations with customers, communities, and the public through marketing strategy and public relations.
Owings volunteered for the Clinton-Gore campaign in Will County, Illinois, in 1992. He also participated in the home-building sector through public-relations, sales, marketing, and award-related activities. In later years he developed a public writing practice focused on systems thinking, operational flow, organizational incentives, work, and personal responsibility.
Achievements
In a later operational case study, Owings described using aerial observation and process analysis to identify congestion, unnecessary trailer movements, and more than one million dollars in wasted labor at a large distribution operation. He presented the work as an example of diagnosing systemic inefficiency through changes in perspective rather than attributing the problem to individual workers.
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Religion
Owings is Roman Catholic. Roman Catholicism is the largest tradition within Christianity and is organized around the sacramental life of the church, scripture, apostolic tradition, and the teaching authority of the pope and bishops.
The tradition places emphasis on human dignity, moral responsibility, service, and the relationship between faith and ordinary social life. In his later essays, Owings also refers to prayer and reflects on the ethical consequences of work, institutional pressure, and responsibility.
Views
Owings's later writing develops a systems-oriented view of organizational life. He argues that problems often become understandable when observed from a different vantage point, and that visible motion should not be confused with meaningful progress. His operational essays emphasize examining flow, incentives, bottlenecks, waste, and the distribution of risk before assigning blame.
His writing also treats work as an ethical environment. He examines how institutions can shift pressure onto workers and families, how constant availability can extend employment into private life, and how people may adapt to harmful systems by becoming silent or hypervigilant. His proposed response is practical and restrained: identify where authority is real, find a defensible point of leverage, and reduce the distance between what one observes and how one acts.
Membership
Owings participated in professional and civic organizations connected with home building, public relations, and local preservation. His documented activities included committee work for the Home Builders Association Greater Chicago, membership in national and Illinois home-builder associations, and participation in the Cathedral Area Preservation Association.
Served on the public relations committee and participated in the sales and marketing council.
Home Builders Association Greater Chicago
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United States
1991
National Association of Home Builders
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United States
Illinois Association of Home Builders
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United States
Served as a director for a 1992 housewalk.
Cathedral Area Preservation Association
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United States
Personality
In his essays, Owings presents himself as attentive to patterns, organizational processes, and the effects of institutional pressure on individual behavior. He describes a preference for observing systems directly, distinguishing structural problems from individual blame, and acting through practical interventions that reduce waste, risk, friction, or delay.
Interests
Reading, writing, horseback riding, travel, and computers.
Connections
Owings married Jenifer Frances Golobitsh on July 27, 1991. His parents were Virgil Walls Owings and Barbra Marie Wisniewski Owings.
Father:
Virgil Walls Owings
Mother:
Barbra Marie (Wisniewski) Owings
Wife:
Jenifer Frances Golobitsh
Married Todd Andrew Owings on July 27, 1991.
References
Todd Andrew Owings professional profile
Professional profile identifying Todd Andrew Owings in the Greater Chicago Area and describing work involving training, change management, strategic planning, program management, consulting, and leadership development.
