When he was 20, Kevin Brockman decided to start a PR firm in New York with some friends. While the firm, Hagan, Brockman & Associates, gained experience working with the recently instituted Presidential Commission on the HIV Epidemic, Brockman says the experience taught him that “I was wildly out of my element and that I needed to learn to walk before I ran.”

Now, Brockman is running at full speed as the EVP of global communications for Disney/ABC Television Group. He ...