Professionally Speaking
Tom Majewski enjoys his split personality when talking about his career in marketing…or is it advertising…or is it communications? From concepts to ideation, strategy, media purchases, photography, graphic design, working with the media, web design, social strategy, content creation, trade show booth activation, and coordinating publicity events on the ground, Tom has pretty much done a little bit of everything at one time or another. Having built up a diverse skill set, he can easily “plug into” a wide variety of roles, and hit the ground running. However, Tom’s true passion is inspiring a team of professionals to do their best work when challenged to deliver results across the marketing-communications spectrum.
So far, Tom’s favorite job was Director of Marketing at Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth, where he was part of a small but very dedicated team supporting a non-profit education mission. His job scope was pretty broad – he wrote and/or designed everything from news releases to billboards to brochures, wrote and directed TV and radio advertising, and pretty much everything in between. If you’d like to hear an interesting story or two from that time, Tom suggests you ask him what the inside of an otter mascot costume smells like, or what it’s like to lay on a bed of nails.
Personally Speaking
When not on the interwebs, Tom can often be found watching some sort of Star Trek show or listening to The Retro Cocktail Hour while tinkering on various projects in his garage. He enjoys thrifting, specifically to add to his growing collection of vintage jazz and exotica record albums. The walls of Tom’s home office are decorated with mid-century magazine ads, travel souvenirs, and his own photography work. A small army of tiki mugs stands guard.
Having started his career as a professional photographer, Tom still struggles to leave the house without a “real” camera in tow. In recent years, he has enjoyed exploring the back roads and rural lanes of southern Minnesota and Wisconsin, documenting interesting finds on Instagram.
Tom finds inspiration at art museums and un-curated events like the St. Paul Art Crawl, which he’s been enjoying since first having attended as part of an art class field trip from Duluth Denfeld High School. He particularly enjoys mixed-media and experimental pieces which challenge the traditional definition of ‘art.’
Tom’s laugh has been called “gregarious” and “room-filling.” Friends describe him as always having a dad joke or bad pun ready for every situation. He can often be heard reminding friends and family, “I promised you jokes, not laughs.”
And Finally…
On occasion, Tom does enjoy referring to himself in the third person. (Although less so these days, once he learned referring to oneself in the third person is a common sign of mental instability.)