Jan Stone Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il

First with a pencil, then a typewriter, now a laptop.... The common denominator: words define us.This is particularly true in our social media world where we're often making a first impression online. ✔️LinkedIn is recognized as the leading digital professional network, thus your LinkedIn profile is an opportunity to sell your brand and showcase your business acumen while infusing it with your personality. ✔️Visit LinkedIn-Makeover.com to check out the possibilities for branding yourself and your company on the top professional networking site.✔️ I've been working with Vision Board Media/LinkedIn-Makeover to optimize profiles since 2016. When I'm not crafting powerful profiles, I help organizations in their marketing efforts through Rock Solid Marketing. Consulting gigs range from rebranding an international aviation accident litigation firm and a formal wear company to advancing yoga practices in grammar schools and writing thought leadership articles for a design association.I also write book reviews, essays and op-eds and try to read a book a week: so much to do, so little time.

Chicago, Il, On-Site Then As Consultant

A globally recognized organization for independent light designers, I was the first dedicated full-time marketing and communications liaison to the internationally located board, membership and key external audiences. Some key achievements:✔️Crafting its first global campaign to increase awareness of the profession and grow funding. ✔️Revamping the organization's website ✔️ Developing new revenue streams and producing the industry’s signature awards event, converting it to a digital submission process.As a consultant I: ✔️ Managed an agency shoot-out for a new global branding initiative, directing it through the creation of a new brand mark and nomenclature.✔️ Conducted new research to draft the association's initial positioning statement addressing the shift from incandescent lamps to LEDs.✔️Increased revenue orchestrating a UK publication/IALD sponsor relationship, creating new income streams as well as expanding membership and association exposure through the publication, its European trade show and educational seminars.______________Dedicated solely to the concerns of independent, professional lighting designers, the IALD strives to set the global standard for lighting design excellence by promoting the advancement and recognition of professional lighting designers.

Chicago, Il

I conducted the full spectrum of PR activities for a variety of B2B clients in document management, financial and retail industries in 1984-1985. I was delighted to return again in 1995, despite the fact that their client engagements are among the most challenging. They are a magnet for the toughest projects because they deliver.___________________ComBlu specializes in content strategy, community building and thought leadership programs. They are recognized thought leader in all three disciplines.

Lincolnwood, Il

Hired to create and implement the document management processing division's first internal and external PR program, I was recognized by management for "raising the bar" in B+H's marketing efforts.Projects included:✔️ Developing a cohesive marketing strategy and communicating it to internal and external audiences✔️ Writing executive speeches✔️ Increasing media and target audience awareness with a rebranded image and refreshed collateral materials Then it was week two.__________Bell+Howell delivers innovative service and technology solutions that enrich customer communications and fulfillment for the world’s largest finance, industry and public sector enterprises.

Chicago, Il

I was recruited to manage the agency's million dollar global PR client, Case, as it merged its construction business with agricultural machinery manufacturer International Harvester. This included:✔️ Devising a strategic rollout considering the economic and emotional aspects of both equipment lines (yes, farmers and construction workers have an unusual but very real connection to their products--including their color)✔️ Sustaining dedicated client management and overseeing a 10-person staff conducting both internal and external international PR activities for both the PR and advertising agency's largest piece of business ✔️Holding my own despite working in these industries when many believed the business could only be understood by male bipedsDuring the course of my tenure, I also managed other B2B and B2C PR clients including Weber Grills and Quaker Oats.Additionally, I was tapped to act as liaison with Bozell Advertising to leverage their accounts and contacts for new PR clients, and I managed Bozell's PR business for several months while its parent company➖Robinson, Lake, Lerer & Montgomery➖conducted a search for a new PR president. In all capacities, I was responsible for P/L, budget creation and maintenance as well as external new business prospecting and keeping the team hydrated.The opportunity to work with industry giants including Kenneth Lerer and Ward White remains the highlight of my tenure._______________Bozell stands for results, not trophies. We stand for communications that are just as smart as they are creative. That means finding compelling stories in the brands we work for then telling those stories to the right people. We want to make consumers feel something more than “oh, just another ad.” Because they deserve better. They deserve messaging that treats them like savvy consumers, not like a herd of cattle.

Chicago, Il

I was recruited to work on the agency's largest and growing million dollar client: The Dow Chemical Company. I earned PR stripes on it as well as with other B2B & B2C clients:✔️Gaining a solid foundation in media pitching/training, deadline writing, brainstorming and proposal writing✔️Keeping and growing client programs and ensuring billable hours pay off for clients and the agency ✔️Learning the value of internal PR as well as solid client relationships by working with some of the profession's giants including Rita and Joe Dragonette_______________Edelman delivers the best in communications strategy to clients so they can reach their business and communication goals.

Chicago, Il

As I was attending Northwestern University in the evenings, I was working on the account management side of the Nestle account during the day. This provided the extraordinary opportunity to learn how a top global ad agency maintains hugely successful client engagements and work in the presence of industry giants--not only in client service and creative but with the Nestle Quik Bunny, Morris the Cat, The Marlboro Man, Colonel Sanders and others.___________________________Leo Burnett Worldwide, Inc. is an American globally active advertising agency founded in 1935 in Chicago by Leo Burnett. Part of Publicis Groupe, Leo Burnett is one of the largest agency networks with 85 offices and 9,000+ employees.

Selective Certificate Program, Graham School Writers Studio — Creative Nonfiction

I participated in a two-year selective enrollment writing program offering intensive workshopping and craft work in creative nonfiction.

Certificate Program, The Basic Program: Philosophy, Religion And Political Science & Writing With Molly Daniels

Studied the Clothesline Review Manual for Writers with Molly Daniels where we wrote for hours at Hutch and read on Sundays at The Woodlawn.

Bachelor’S Degree, English/Renaissance Literature, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Research-related work comparing North Side establishments affordability and empathy for starving.

Journalism

Activities and Societies: We actually wrote our news stories on typewriters. We'd come into class, get an assignment and have to turn it.