Al From is one of America’s premier strategists and policy entrepreneurs with a track record of injecting innovative ideas into the national debate, turning major national institutions around, and changing the course of American life.

His new venture, The From Company, LLC, offers strategic advice to private clients. In March 1985, From founded the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the organization whose ideas and political strategies during the past quarter century played a central role in the resurgence of the modern Democratic Party. He led the DLC from its inception until April 2009.

In 2000, at a speech at Hyde Park, President Bill Clinton said, "It would be hard to think of a single American citizen who, as a private citizen, has had a more positive impact on the progress of American life in the last 25 years than Al From."

Founded after a series of crushing defeats when some thought the Democratic Party was destined for extinction, the DLC has provided both the action agenda and the ideas for New Democrats to successfully challenge the conventional political wisdom in America and, in the process, redefine the center of the Democratic Party. From played a prominent role in the 1992 election of President Bill Clinton, prompting USA Today to write: "The ideas at the crux of the Clinton candidacy were largely drafted by the DLC.”

Today, many of the ideas that comprise the core of the Democratic Party’s agenda come from work done under From’s leadership at the DLC. National service, an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, welfare reform, charter schools, community policing, expanded trade and re-inventing government were all championed by scholars and analysts at the DLC well before becoming part of the Democratic Party’s great successes. Today, many leading Democrats from across the nation point to the DLC’s brand of politics as a key element of their success.

Before founding the DLC, From was executive director of the House Democratic Caucus, where he played a pivotal role in revitalizing that venerable institution. He also served in President Jimmy Carter’s White House, and was staff director of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, where he was a staffer on the Congressional Budget Act, helped shape the stimulus package during the 1973-74 recession and was called a “legislative genius” by Washingtonian Magazine.

From serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce National Chamber Foundation, the Board of Trustees of the Annapolis Symphony, the National Advisory Board of The Roosevelt Institution, and the Executive Board of the University of Maryland’s Center for American Politics and Citizenship. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors in 1999, and served as chairman until December 2002 when his term expired. His writings have appeared in numerous national publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, and Politico.com.

Born in South Bend, Indiana, From earned a Master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, was editor of the Daily Northwestern, and was named a charter member of the Hall of Achievement of the Medill School of Journalism. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife, Ginger.