Robert Kolt

Robert Kolt is the president and CEO of Kolt Communications, Inc., a privately owned communications corporation with offices located in Okemos, Michigan. In 1991, Kolt Communications began providing a variety of communication counseling services to both public and private sector clients statewide including: public relations, advertising and media consulting. Robert Kolt also serves as a full-time instructor in the Advertising and Public Relations Department in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and was honored with the title Professor of Practice in 2016. Kolt has been active as a media strategist for several statewide ballot issues, and worked as a media consultant and key political advisor to former Governor James J. Blanchard and former Secretary of State Richard H. Austin. Prior to founding Kolt Communications, Kolt worked as an executive for the Office of Communication in the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). Kolt also worked for several years as a news anchor and correspondent for WZZM-TV 13 ABC in Grand Rapids, as well as WWTV/WWUP-TV 9/10 CBS in northern Michigan. He has been a MCSC member since 2012.