Momentum Communications is a public relations company specializing in message, strategy, advertising and writing family and corporate histories.

Momentum is all about message, strategy and energy. The right message to reach your intended audience, the strategy to make the message stick and the energy to change attitudes. Momentum Communications will pack the relevance of your business with creativity, promotion, planning and positioning. Marketing, in its simplest form, provides a quality product at a profit. But if you fail to look deep within yourself drafting a reliable roadmap to marketing success will be marred by deep potholes and trapdoors. That's because so often messengers don't always understand who they are and how to reach the correct audience. Do you know who you are? Do you know how to reach your audience? If the answer to either is no let us help you find yourself and your audience. The momentum will follow.

Lennie Grimaldi brings a wide array of corporate communications and public relations experience. His clients have included Wal*Mart and Donald Trump. For Wal*Mart Grimaldi directed a community and media relations campaign for the conversion of an EPA cleanup site in Stratford, CT into a new Wal*Mart retail outlet. For Trump, he handled communications during the hotly debated casino expansion issue before the Connecticut Legislature. Grimaldi also directed a crisis management campaign on behalf of the City of Bridgeport in the aftermath of the L'Ambiance building collapse that took 28 lives.

Grimaldi is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, TV Guide, Yankee Magazine and Connecticut Magazine.

Grimaldi has written dozens of company profiles for history books and radio projects. He is the author of Bow Tie Banker (Kolumns), a biography of David Carson, the previous CEO of Peoples Bank, and Chased (New Horizon), the life of mob infiltrator Billy Chase. He is also the author of Connecticut Whistle Stops: Greenwich to New Haven (Arcadia) and Only In Bridgeport (first edition Windsor Publications, second edition Harbor Communications).

He has won awards for journalistic excellence from both Society of Professional Journalists, Connecticut Chapter and United Press International.

Grimaldi has also written dozens of radio campaigns and corporate-crafted history programs for companies such as Louis Rich, HBO, Tropicana, Excedrin, Nivea, SNET, Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Campbell Soup and Apple.