Strengths

• Outstanding Communication Skills - Verbal, Written, Rich Media Production.


• Creative Team Motivational Leadership - Highly trained and experienced team leader. At CNN led field teams in warzone coverage. Public relations creative team leadership is enhanced by ground experience.


• Award-winning Writing - Print, Broadcast, Corporate Communications, PR, News releases, White papers, Editorial, Blogs. Invited member of The Society of the Silurians, America's oldest press club.


• Multiple Projects and Deadline Pressure - Both long term and immediate. Cool under fire. Highly organized.


• Customer Focus - Market sensing expert including empathic market sensing. Successes in business include large international clients and The Weather Channel ratings records. Triumphs result from keen customer focus and meaningful metrics.


• State of the Art Computer Skills - MS Office, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, Director, PCs and Mac.


• Management of Large Budgets - Projects and annual. At TWC, $3-million budget.


• Demonstrated Cultural Sensitivity - Experience in international affairs and core diversity principles.


• Accuracy and Judgement - Background in real investigative journalism, where stories are like legal cases, accuracy was embedded. In journalism and corporate communications/PR the same accuracy and judgement apply.


• Innovation Expertise - Eight years of working with the business innovation leader, Launch Institute, have led to a unique approach to applying creative instincts, that served well in journalism and film-making, to sustainable organizational innovation.