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Greater Chicago Area

Help organizations evaluate safety systems and provide guidance in creating new organizational structures for assessing and managing threats. Bring three-decades of experience in applying techniques in strategic communications to serve as a foundation for creating safer, transparent communities and organizational cultures.

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

KemperLesnik is a leading agency voice in the business of sports as well as corporate crisis and response. KemperLesnik worked to shape gold standard brands such as the Maui Invitational, McDonald’s All American Games, NFL Draft and the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, to name a few. The team brings a unique ability to merge strategic communications.

Schiller Park, Illinois

• Led global marketing communications.
• Set brand direction and messaging in collaboration with executive leadership team while serving as chief brand officer
• Improved team efficiencies and grew digital marketing capabilities by creating new team structures and recruiting talent to fill new roles
• Contributed to increased product sales by leading improved product launch campaign strategies and techniques

Schiller Park, Illinois

• Worked in collaboration with global sales leadership to deliver marketing strategies to drive lead generation.
• Built stronger brand awareness by creating consistent brand and product messages across all global marketing properties and tools
• Improved global market awareness by establishing a global-local strategy for developing and delivering key marketing tools – such as websites, branded collateral material, social media sites – (in multiple languages).
• Improved sales lead generation by completing a segmentation analysis, targeting ad spending and reallocating vertical marketing expenditures

• Led the transformation of internal teams and expansion into global marketing.
• Enhanced creative quality and outputs by introducing new processes and procedures, roles and responsibilities
• Improved idea generation and cross-functional team collaboration by combining five independent departments into one marketing services team

• Led operations and business development for Chicago office.
• Generated high-quality book of business, increasing billings by more than 300% during tenure, growing staff from 12 to 35 at its peak.
• Generated and enhanced high quality book of business, including U.S. Cellular Corp., Brunswick Corp., Protiviti Consulting, U.S. Futures Exchange, DeVry, GE Capital, Brunswick Bowling & Billiards, Life Fitness, Home.
• Served in leadership roles within the industry and was a speaker at workshops, client events. Topics included: Effective strategic communications, crisis response, media measurement strategies, message management.

• Managed all external communications for publicly-traded telecommunications company.
• Generated wide exposure leading to strong market position in young industry
• Improved market reach by directing participation in major U.S. trade shows, including CES, FMI, and Convenience Stores Show
• Company named Fastest Growing Company in California (1996) by the Los Angeles Times
• Enhanced shareholder awareness by producing cutting-edge communications and Mead Award-winning annual reports that captured attention among the investment community

Account management for clients including consumer campaign for Canon Computers, public affairs programs for Chrysler Corporation and in-market product launch activities for Nintendo USA.

Managed account activities for clients such as Century 21, Tribune Entertainment, Jiffy Lube, MCEG Sterling Films, Singapore Tourism Board, National Amateur Baseball Tournament.

Supported communications efforts for public affairs initiatives, law firm marketing, political campaigns and national book releases with major publishing houses. Clients included: Jenner & Block Law Firm, Skadden, Arps law firm, Andrew Greeley (priest, author, sociologist), U.S. Rep. Sidney Yates (Illinois).