Vicki Bohlsen is the founder and president of Bohlsen Group, an Indianapolis-based unified marketing agency.
Bohlsen Group executes “unified marketing” for clients across the country that share their values and mission and use their business as a force for good.
Vicki started her career as an affiliate relations coordinator for CBS Television Network in New York City, and then went on to produce special projects for NBC affiliate WTHR-TV in Indianapolis and direct publicity for The Promotion Company, a marketing and PR firm specializing in live event entertainment before she embarked on her own as a freelancer for almost twenty years while raising her kids.
After Vicki’s three kids were all in school, she joined TrendyMinds in 2007 as a principal/partner to start up and head its public relations division with an umbrella company called TrendyMinds PR. In February 2010, Vicki’s business partner decided to concentrate fully on TrendyMinds and relinquished his shares to Vicki. Vicki then changed the company’s name to BohlsenPR and operated as such for a little more than a year while the company grew and evolved.
At the start of 2012, BohlsenPR changed its name to Bohlsen Group to account for its ever-expanding staff, client list and service offerings. In 2016, Bohlsen Group became the only B Corp certified company in Indiana, a designation from B Lab that endorses commitment to corporate social responsibility. Bohlsen Group was also certified as a Women Business Enterprise in 2016.
Vicki loves Indianapolis and doing business as a force for good! Prior to the B Corp designation, Bohlsen Group provided dozens of clients with pro bono services. Now, as a standard protocol, Bohlsen Group provides reduced rates to social impact companies and gives 10% in services back to each. To-date, Bohlsen Group has donated nearly $1,500,000 to partnering organizations.
Vicki takes social responsibility seriously and proclaims their B Corp certification helps to keep the company accountable to its every decision both internally with staff and externally with clients, vendors, the environment, and the community. Bohlsen Group has been named “Best for the World” in the Governance category the last two years.