Betsy Kitchen is an award-winning communications professional specializing in strategic writing and editing, results-oriented public relations, internal and external communications, as well as media relations. She is a motivated and skilled communicator who delivers results on time and on budget. With 20 years of direct experience, Betsy has successfully applied her communications talents to initiatives for a wide variety of clients in the public, private and non-profit sectors. A full-time consultant since 1993, Betsy has exceptional writing, editing and proofreading skills. She also has expertise in strategic communications planning and implementation; corporate re-branding initiatives; employee and stakeholder communications; government and media relations; as well as the development of dynamic content for electronic environments. She is particularly proficient in the writing and editing of corporate-perspective and scientific/technical documents in plain language, including communications strategies, press materials, feature articles, interactive website content, employee/stakeholder training manuals, fact sheets, briefing notes, backgrounders and print publications of all varieties from the initial research through distribution stages. Betsy won the Canadian Public Relations Society’s Bruce Cochran Award for ‘exceptional writing and editing in a variety of media’, six International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) EXCEL Awards and two national Health Care Public Relations Association HYGEIA Awards. Enthusiastic, energetic, loyal and creative, Betsy has been granted Government of Canada security authorization to Level II (‘Secret’).