Kathleen Hatfield Email & Phone Number

Kathleen Hatfield is an accomplished communications strategist with a proven track record leading successful media relations, marketing, and corporate communications programs. She is a senior advisor at Perceptual Advisors and runs a Miami-based consultancy called Volantis Group, through which she delivers PR and marketing advice to interesting companies, primarily in the professional services space. A recent client is Binc, a leading technology recruiter for companies like Airbnb, Instacart, Nest, Robinhood, Stripe, and TikTok, where she provided guidance to help Binc strengthen its brand and achieve its business goals. In March 2021, Binc was acquired by Robinhood to help fuel its tremendous growth and demand for top talent.Earlier, she was engaged to supplement internal and external change communications efforts (message tracks, FAQs, talking points, video scripts, blog posts, events, and email campaigns) during The Hartford's acquisition and integration of The Navigators Group. Another recent client is McChrystal Group, a leadership and advisory services firm founded by General (ret.) Stan McChrystal. While at McChrystal Group, as CMO and then senior advisor, she created and led a program to clarify the brand beyond its namesake founder, using content marketing and bestselling books to build visibility for other thought leaders and expanding the firm's digital footprint to drive informed leads into the sales funnel. Before McChrystal Group, she was engaged by brand consultancy Prophet, where she developed joint PR initiatives, bylined articles, and case studies in partnership with clients including AbbVie, Electrolux, Kimberly-Clark, Novant Health, Qdoba, and T-Mobile. For most of her career she was a partner at Lippincott, a global branding and design firm. There, she directed global corporate and marketing communications, promoting the firm’s capabilities to prospective clients, partners, and influencers through traditional and social media. She led Lippincott's brand launch PR for McDonald's, Delta Air Lines, Starbucks, Infiniti, Hyatt, Samsung, Citizens Bank, Dell, Kemper, TACA, Vale, Nissan, Sprint, and Walmart. She was a director in the corporate/financial practice at Burson-Marsteller (now BCW). At Burson, she managed a team that performed PR and reputation management for Accenture's retail, consumer goods, and chemicals operating units. She ran the financial media relations program for Coach, Inc., partnering with the head of Investor Relations to plan and execute IPO communications, CEO media relations, and roadshows.

Listed skills include Communications Planning, Marketing Communications, Media Relations, Public Relations, and 33 others.