Hire Our Heroes

My guest will be Bryan Goettel.  Bryan is director of communications for the Hiring Our Heroes Veteran and Military Spouse Employment Program at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He manages all aspects of the program’s communications, including media, corporate partner communications, and internal communications and strategy.  Bryan joined the Chamber in 2009 as a member of media relations. He managed the Chamber’s broadcast outreach and served as the main point of contact for financial regulation, energy and the environment, political communications, and Hiring Our Heroes. Before joining the Chamber, he was a broadcast journalist for eight years working as a sports anchor and news reporter at KWWL-TV in Waterloo, Iowa; sports director at WNCF-TV in Montgomery, Alabama; and sports anchor and reporter at KOTA-TV in Rapid City, South Dakota. Bryan has interviewed Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Charles Barkley, Pete Carroll, Peyton Manning, and Ryne Sandberg, among others.  He graduated cum laude with a B.A. in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California.