I am the principal and owner of The Leytham Group, a strategic public relations and issues management practice. TLG advises and manages public-facing issues on behalf of a broad base of private and public sector clients in the Tampa Bay area, including extensive work with Zayo (5G network permitting and construction), Covanta (Waste to Energy), the Tampa and Orlando Housing Authorities, Suffolk, Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties, American Traffic Solutions (Red Light Cameras), Homes by WestBay, Wade Trim and Pulte Homes.Along with traditional public relations, we have developed a significant niche in public affairs and issues/crisis management, advising on high-profile and politically charged matters, often construction related, such as securing underlying rights for 5G network builds, a desalination water plant, the foundation collapse and subsequent opening of a reversible lane bridge, the revitalization of inner-city public housing, and county task forces on affordable housing, economic development and transportation. I have been “crowned” as the Queen of Damage Control by The Maddux Report and Florida Trend magazine named me among 30 “Must-Know Contacts in Tampa Bay.” Recently, I was included among the “Top 100 Powerful People in Tampa Bay” by the Tampa Bay Business Journal. I graduated from Ball State University in Muncie, IN, with a bachelor’s of science degree in political science and completed Northwestern University School of Communication’s Executive Education in Managing Complexity and Crisis Communications. I am active in the Tampa Bay community and served on the board of directors of Metropolitan Ministries and Lowry Park Zoo as well as the executive board of The Tampa Riverwalk. I have been appointed twice to the Charter Review Board of Hillsborough County, am a Class of ‘99 alumna of Leadership Tampa and a former Guardian Ad Litem.