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Niles, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

The short of it: Helping clients lead change across their organizations; coaching executives on how to be more effective communicators; developing interactive, innovative approaches to inspire action. Focus areas include ESG, frontline workers, and driving transformation at scale. The long of it ... * Work directly with clients and teams to develop high-impact strategies, peak experiences, and compelling documents. * Build the skills of peers and clients through formal and informal coaching and structured training. * Help teams up their creative game and execute brilliantly across all media and modes. * Serve as a client strategist, working with communications leaders and top-level executives to help them transform their organizations. * Assist with M&A, new strategy rollouts, and performance transformations. * Coach senior executives on how to tell their stories and communications teams on how to lead change in new ways.* Engage as a thought partner to consulting teams, helping them look at the big picture over the course of a project. * Lend an expert hand to thought development, helping structure, write and revise individual pieces so they’re clear, compelling, and attuned to the audience(s). * Share perspective, guiding teams to think holistically about the experience clients have when we share information with them, and how we can use workshops, hackathons, and other meeting formats to build momentum and excitement.* Engage as a change leader, leading an institutional shift in how McKinsey consultants think about their client communications toward a thoughtful approach that emphasizes narrative, a wider range of tools and media, and a strategy tailored to the client situation.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States

As owner of Midnight Owl Gallery, I managed day-to-day business operations and external communications. Responsible for connecting with other galleries for show submissions, developing creative assets, and creating product lines

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Led global communications for Tyson’s 142,000 employees by building strong strategic partnerships with leaders. Built and fortified communications networks across the Fortune 100 company to drive message reach and delivery effectiveness. Produced quarterly town hall meetings. Led a team responsible for creating a quarterly employee magazine, an ongoing video series, daily intranet, social and digital signage content, field content and other channels.• Improved agility and speed-to-market by transitioning to a strategic business partner model, allowing the team to plan communications beyond its immediate horizon as part of a strategic, cross-functional calendar.• Leveraged organizational culture, communication channel extensions and deep collaboration to maintain business continuity throughout several major acquisitions and divestitures. • Reconnected 100+ field locations to the corporate offices by orchestrating a champions network. This partnership drove pilot testing and deployment strategies to boost employee engagement and alignment

Chicago, Illinois

Ran executive communications for the CEO, President, Chief Commercial Officer, Foodservice President, Chief Human Resources Officer, and other leaders. Full member of the functional leadership teams for Foodservice, Commercial Sales and Human Resources. • In partnership with leadership, planned and executed annual extended leadership team conferences to align and cascade annual and strategic plans.• Drove cultural integration of the combined Hillshire/Tyson enterprise through weekly “Living Our Values” spotlights, executive blogs, personnel announcements and intranet postings.• Guided and constructed rollout plans for a new, merged job and compensation structure, reducing complexity and increasing employee understanding of and appreciation for total rewards.• Increased standardization and ease-of-use through streamlined re-deployment of Tyson’s digital signage network on a new platform.

Chicago, Ill.

Supported enterprise-wide communications, including intranet migration to cloud-based infrastructure, digital signage platform installation, email standardization, and video production. Peer-managed a network of communication champions at production facilities across the U.S. Synthesized and translated manufacturing and operations content into inspiring communications as a member of the supply chain/operations leadership team. Directly facilitated executive communication support for the Chief Supply Chain Officer and supply chain/operations.• Built culture and sense of identity for The Hillshire Brands Company through brand awareness programs for employees, company recognition platforms and executive engagement programs.• Orchestrated quarterly town halls for supply chain/operations function and annual conferences for its extended leadership team.• Achieved alignment to KPIs and annual goals through scorecard development, ongoing material delivery, and monthly field communication champion calls.

Downers Grove, Ill.

Responsible for the development, implementation and measurement of internal communication programs and strategies. Support the strategic and business goals of the Supply Chain organization.(Note: Sara Lee Corporation split into two companies, with The Hillshire Brands Company launching June 29, 2012)

Oak Brook, Illinois, United States

Managed day-to-day communications activities for the co-op and spearheaded the shift to digital communications as the primary touch point for company news. Also led the communications effort for the roll out of Clark+Kensington paint, the most successful implementation in the history of the company, with +2,500 stores ordering the program in less than five months.

M.S., Integrated Marketing Communications

Activities and Societies: Alpha Sigma NuCertificate in Business Ethics

Graduate Certificate, Sustainable Development

Earned a graduate certificate in Sustainable Development with coursework such as corporate social responsibility, business law.

Bachelors, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Alpha Lambda Delta, The Daily Vidette (reporter and online editor), Resident Assistant, Office of Student Life.