Blois Olson provides leadership for Tunheim Partners and its clients in public affairs, crisis communication and online strategy. Prior to joining Tunheim, he founded and led New School Communications for nine years.
Blois' innovative and strategic thinking is leveraged for clients across the country, including corporations and organizations in health care, technology, energy, telecommunications, real estate, retail and consumer products, food and beverage, and legal affairs.
He is on the must-call list for most D.C. and New York-based agencies seeking intelligence on issues and media in the Midwest, and on national issues with a regional impact. Elected officials of both parties seek his counsel and political perspective.
Blois is known to read and monitor dozens of media outlets on a daily basis to ensure clients are kept abreast of the most current news and events that affect their business.
Blois has worked closely with national and regional media, politicians, lobbyists and media relations experts. In 1994, while working in Washington, he was tapped to manage a congressional race in his home state for a 20-year incumbent. In 1998, he cofounded MN-Politics.com, the leading online source for Minnesota political information, and he is the former copublisher of "Politics In Minnesota." Blois left political campaigns in 1998.
A Minnesota native, Blois' love of media and current affairs was born during his job as a daily newspaper carrier for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, and in a household where the evening news was discussed nightly at the dinner table.
Blois' media insight and political analysis have been featured on CNN, MSNBC, and National Public Radio, and in The New York Times, Newsweek, Newsweek-Asia, Agence Press France, and numerous regional and local media outlets. He is a regular contributor to "Almanac" and "At Issue."
At age 31, Blois was named one of the 40 under 40 by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, where he studied political science and journalism. He resides in Hopkins with his wife, Lou Ann, and two children.
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