Skip Colcord is a retired communications executive and speechwriter with 35 years of experience at companies such as Ocean Spray, Polaroid, American Standard and Trane. He started his career as a newspaper reporter at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts, and The Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, Missouri. He also served three years at the National Fire Protection Association. Colcord is an honors graduate of Northeastern University in Boston and earned his Master's degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia.

Skip Colcord is a retired communications executive and speechwriter with 35 years of experience at companies such as Ocean Spray, Polaroid, American Standard and Trane. He started his career as a newspaper reporter at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts, and The Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, Missouri. He also served three years at the National Fire Protection Association. Colcord is an honors graduate of Northeastern University in Boston and earned his Master's degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia.