Beverly Jones is president of ClearWays Consulting, LLC, a firm that helps executives and professionals to restructure and re-energize their work lives. Throughout her varied career, Bev has engaged in mentoring activities, and today she is available to coach accomplished lawyers, lobbyists and executives who want to become more effective and who are ready to take steps toward more fulfilling careers.

Bev is an attorney who served for 13 years as Vice President of External Affairs and Policy of Consolidated Natural Gas Company, a Fortune 500 energy company and parent of four gas utilities. Her broad management portfolio included government affairs matters, as well as the CNG Foundation and other public outreach activities. She also was engaged in strategic planning and other management challenges, ranging from glass ceiling issues to change management in the midst of sweeping restructuring of the utility industry.

Bev has developed communication initiatives and advocacy documents, including formal testimony and marketing materials, and has testified before Congressional committees, Federal agencies, and State legislatures and commissions. She has written about and discussed public affairs strategies in many venues, and has helped others to increase their own communications skills and enhance their productivity.

In addition to coaching, Bev continues to serve as a consultant on public policy matters to Dominion, the large energy company that acquired CNG, as well as to Ohio University. From 2000 through 2003, she served as special counsel to the law firm Adams & Reese, LLP. Before joining CNG, Bev was a partner and department chairman at the law firm Wickwire, Gavin and Gibbs, PC. She began her legal career at the Securities and Exchange Commission.