Wesley Riddle Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Providing freelance writing, editing and photography for legal marketing teams and other professional services companies

San Francisco Bay Area

• In my fourth promotion in just over six years, I led Cooley’s firmwide internal communications efforts,amplifying the elite law firm’s many stories and successes across its 2,000+ global workforce• Launched critical leadership communications, working in close collaboration with C-suite executives• Managed three direct reports, coaching each in distinct specialties – leadership communications, change management and intranet blogging – alongside the development of their core skills, including project management, cross-department collaboration and the development of impactful internal content• Leveraged key relationships with internal stakeholders in legal practices and professional staffdepartments to bolster firm voice, partner on vital projects, consult on strategy and find innovations

San Francisco Bay Area

• Acted as the editor-in-chief for the firm’s Sharepoint-hosted internal blog platform and worked closelywith a variety of leaders and departments – especially DEI, HR, pro bono and legal talent – to plan,approve and execute on firmwide messaging, with an emphasis on an inclusive “for all” perspective• Hired a new position focused on change management and managed two other direct reports

San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for reviewing and approving the work of several junior-level colleagues, including providingconstructive feedback and coaching, particularly on the development of internal communications• Provided final approval for the firm’s internal blog as well as for social media content

San Francisco Bay Area

• Oversaw Cooley’s submission for the Fortune Best Companies to Work For survey, collating diversematerial and data from a range of internal departments, resulting in the firm’s then-highest ranking (#18)• Co-led efforts to establish Cooley’s first marketing style guide, unifying the tone and voice of the firm’s distinctive brand in written communications, internally and externally

San Francisco Bay Area

• Drafted, edited and proofread press releases; firmwide blog posts and emails; marketing and RFPpresentations; social media content (Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn); and awards submissions

Sacramento, California Area

• Copy edited stories, designed pages and wrote display copy under deadline for several McClatchy Company daily newspapers, including The Sacramento Bee, The Modesto Bee and The Fresno Bee• Selected stories from wire services to fill inside news pages, using good news judgement and conferring with senior editors to ensure complete and diverse coverage• Designed news and op-ed pages for The Sacramento Bee, The Modesto Bee, as well as for the following weeklies: The Chowchilla News and The Livingston Chronicle• Worked with a fast-paced team across the newsroom to ensure content went through each step of the copy editing and proofing workflow before sending pages to be printed

Modesto, California Area

• Copy edited stories, designed pages and wrote display copy under deadline for The Modesto Bee and several other McClatchy Company newspapers