Mike Lesperance has over 14 years of experience in private and public sector communications, heritage management, crisis assessment and response, and corporate training. He specializes in heritage management initiatives and has led Nixon & Associates’ efforts to use history and company heritage as a communications tools for clients such as El Paso Corporation, Vastar Resources, Shell Oil, Ocean Energy and Dynegy.
Mike has also headed our firm’s coordination on a number of crisis drills for clients ranging from Yankee Energy in Meriden, Connecticut, to Occidental Petroleum in Bogota, Colombia. During his varied career Mike has worked with private-sector clients and the U.S. Air Force in responding to incidents of environmental contamination and remediation. His past experience also includes conducting community relations training and guidance to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency to help representatives of the Agency and the Department of Defense work with concerned members of their communities. He also authored a guidance document targeting business owners in the various transportation industries explaining how and why to comply with EPA requirements.
Mike is currently a partner and co-owner of The Design Minds, a Northern Virginia-based design firm that combines innovative design with historic interpretation and implementation. He earned a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 1992, and in 1993, received an M.A. in History from the University of Virginia.
Prior to affiliating with Nixon & Associates, Mike was Director of Project Management for The History Factory, a heritage communications company managed by Neil Nixon in Washington, D.C. Before that, he was an expert on CERCLA, CAA, and EPCRA (Title III) issues as a Senior Consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton, one of the world’s largest international management consulting firms.
Mike lives in Northern Virginia and works out of Arlington.
Mike has also headed our firm’s coordination on a number of crisis drills for clients ranging from Yankee Energy in Meriden, Connecticut, to Occidental Petroleum in Bogota, Colombia. During his varied career Mike has worked with private-sector clients and the U.S. Air Force in responding to incidents of environmental contamination and remediation. His past experience also includes conducting community relations training and guidance to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency to help representatives of the Agency and the Department of Defense work with concerned members of their communities. He also authored a guidance document targeting business owners in the various transportation industries explaining how and why to comply with EPA requirements.
Mike is currently a partner and co-owner of The Design Minds, a Northern Virginia-based design firm that combines innovative design with historic interpretation and implementation. He earned a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 1992, and in 1993, received an M.A. in History from the University of Virginia.
Prior to affiliating with Nixon & Associates, Mike was Director of Project Management for The History Factory, a heritage communications company managed by Neil Nixon in Washington, D.C. Before that, he was an expert on CERCLA, CAA, and EPCRA (Title III) issues as a Senior Consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton, one of the world’s largest international management consulting firms.
Mike lives in Northern Virginia and works out of Arlington.