CAREY O’DONNELL
CEO, NATIVE WELCOME, WEST PALM BEACH
O’Donnell started out her career writing and teaching skiing. “I combined those skills in my early 20s, lucking into the right context at the right time, and suddenly I was the owner of a very successful ski media company in Montreal.” In 1995, she founded the O’Donnell Agency, a PR and digital services company, specializing in government, real estate, health care, education and professional services. The agency merged with another PR firm in June. O’Donnell’s new venture is a partnership with the Related Cos. to serve as to as a “lifestyle concierge” providing assistance to financial company executives and others who move to Palm Beach County.
| EDUCATION | Concordia University (BA) |
| SOMETHING SURPRISING | I’m a Palm Beach native but lived in four countries by age 25 and speak three languages. |
| Sabbatical Topic | The Yellowstone ecosystem |
| READING | Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt |