Renaissance House International

As in the time of the Renaissance, our world is in the midst of exciting and meaningful change.

Since 1984, our clients have called on Renaissance House International for communication services that help them survive and succeed in today’s turbulent world of change and innovation.  Our strategic counsel and program implementation combine the most effective instruments from a spectrum of communication disciplines such as public relations, marketing, research, graphic design and advertising into a cohesive program well suited to each organization and its desired outcome.  In return, loyal clients helped us grow.

RHI professionals are here to listen, to work with you and to work for you. We bring you creativity, hands-on experience and academic training.  Our professionals are respected for their accomplished, results-oriented and often award-winning performance.

Commendations

Renaissance House has earned awards and commendations for outstanding client services. We have earned both silver and bronze Excalibur awards from the Public Relations Society of America and special commendations from the Greater Houston Children's Collaborative for a "generous investment in the lives of Houston's children” and from Congribur, the Hispanic Language Association of Latin America and Spain, for marketing and attitudinal research and counsel.  Dr. Langham also received a commendation from the Eighth United States Army - Korea for outstanding services during a time of turbulence.

Leadership

CEO and founder Barbara D. Langham, PhD, APR brings her years of business management, communications and training experience to help you solve your problems. As leader of the firm and numerous account teams, she develops strategies and implements diverse programs for clients in energy, chemicals, banking, financial services, retail, medicine and professional services. She also handles litigation communication for law firms representing both the defense and plaintiff.

For international clients, she has provided strategic reputation and image counsel to companies in Europe and Russia, to Latin American entities through CONGRIBER, the international Hispanic language advertising association,  La Federacion Latinoamericana de Bancos (FELABAN) and La Asociacion de Banqueros de Guatemala and to Korea through the Korea-U. S. Economic Council.

Langham has successfully placed clients in major media outlets across the nation including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, CNBC, CNN, AP and Bloomberg newswires, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Arizona Republican, Atlanta Constitution, Austin American-Statesman, Texas Monthly, in consumer magazines including Woman's Day, Popular Mechanics, Boy's Life and in major trade publications in medicine, education, merchandising, banking, transportation, law and energy, including Oncology Today, Juvenile Merchandising, Small World, Giftware News, Oil and Gas Journal, Petroleum Argus, Pipeline & Gas Journal, Natural Gas Week, Gas Daily, General Aviation News & Flyer and American Bar Journal. 

Prior to establishing the firm, she served as director of investor relations for Ridgeway Exco Inc., a publicly traded oil and gas company. Before that, she was with the American Educational Complex, an organization providing training to the U.S. government abroad and to multinational and foreign industries, including Kia Corporation, and American Express Bank. She served as Director, Korea where the Eighth United States Army awarded her a special commendation for outstanding service to the military. Next, as Associate Dean, Japan she was responsible for the successful country-wide start up of Department of Defense education and training contracts for all four branches of the military. Prior to her time in Asia, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, where she taught courses in research, technical writing, exposition and creative writing, both fiction and poetry, to undergraduate, graduate and post graduate students.

Langham has provided specialized communication training seminars and courses and served as keynote speaker at business conferences and other events in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia, talking on communication, reputation and marketing topics.

Among her publications, her research on communication ethics was published in Communications World, the magazine of the International Association of Business Communicators. She has also published articles on writing skills for both teen and adult readers in the general population as well as for business audiences. She is published in anthologies and other books including, most recently The Encyclopedia of Public Relations. She is listed in Poets and Writers of America for her poems and short stories, published in magazines, journals and anthologies. She is also listed in Who’s Who in U. S. Writers, Editors and Poets.

Langham is a member of the board of directors of the Houston Strategic Forum, a past board member and officer of the Industrial Engineering Advisory Board at Texas Tech University, past president of the Houston chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), a former representative to the PRSA National Conference, past chair of the accreditation program for the Houston chapter, a member of the PRSA Counselors Academy.

Langham earned two graduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her Master of Arts in English focused on curriculum design and her Doctor of Arts in English was in the Creative Writing Program. Her dissertation is a collection of short fiction, Texas Clay, from which several short stories have been published. As an undergraduate, she studied at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina where she received her Bachelor of Arts in English.

She is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).

Community

Community matters and Renaissance House International strives to be a good corporate citizen.  Our company and our staff stay involved through pro bono projects, mentoring and internship programs, charitable donations, and organizational memberships where we often serve as officers and board members.  In this way, we strive to give back to our communities and make a positive mark upon our world.

Global Reach

With RHI, You Reach the World. We are the founding member of The Global Group, a network of professional communication firms, consultants and specialists throughout the world.

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