As Director of Corporate Communications for Emergent Holdings, a nationwide collection of insurance and corporate services companies owned by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, I'm responsible for directing the communications efforts across the enterprise. From offering strategic counsel and support to BCBSM’s C-suite, to crafting employee engagement and change management campaigns, company-wide events and much more, my role helps find the right mediums, methods and messages to drive our businesses further.

Editor of GolfTime Magazine and www.golftimemag.com, helping deliver great golf news to the greater Chicagoland area and beyond.

As the Enterprise Community Manager at Ford, I was responsible for the "care and feeding" of the company's social collaborative intranet, TheHub@Ford, designed to transform the way we work. My duties included consulting on best practices and use cases, creating engaging, compelling content, tracking governance and metrics, and providing strategic guidance of the system. TheHub@Ford's mission was to help the Ford community connect, communicate and collaborate to drive innovation, delivering business value on a global scale.Other highlights: Provided strategic guidance and consultation, and developed best practices to help community managers and others use the platform Facilitated white-glove senior executive outreach and consultationSpearheaded community adoption and engagement strategiesFacilitated group and individual training and presentations to global teamsWorked across Communications and IT teams to create compelling content to drive engagement and encourage adoptionTracked and analyzed usage, adoption and other metricsDeveloped monthly metrics reports for executive sponsors and key leadershipConsulted with technical operations on integrations and upgrades to the platformFord Honors & AchievementsPresented at Ford New Employee Orientation Conference2x Ford “Rewards and Recognition” winnerWrote the script and managed vendors to produce TheHub@Ford launch video, with more than 100,000 internal views in the first year

As the Enterprise Community Manager for West Michigan’s largest employer, I was responsible for the relaunch and strategic direction of its award-winning intranet, InSite. My duties included consulting on best practices and use cases, creating engaging, compelling content, spearheading compliance, governance and user issue triage; providing strategic guidance of the system, and tracking usage and metrics to drive employee engagement and adoption. The site was the winner of Ragan Communications' 2015 "Best Relaunch" Intranet Award as a result.

Served as lead copywriter and project coordinator for marketing and communications for $9 billion+ retirement, insurance and benefits system, including employee engagement initiatives, internal and external communications, and public relations, as well as providing strategic counsel to organization’s leadership and stakeholders.

Lead copywriter for a varied multimedia company. Coordinated, wrote and edited varied company and client communications, including marketing, public relations and web copy.

Editor of Great Lakes Golf Magazine, a 65,000-circulation monthly regional publication. Coordinated every aspect of the regional publication. Also assisted in production, from design to updating website. Also served as chief copywriter for all creative materials for full-service agency, from ad campaigns to custom magazines and collateral materials.