I've helped companies like Kemper Insurance, UPS, Denny's Restaurants and National City
Corporation find full-service agencies and create more effective client-agency partnerships.
I'm also considered the RCG expert when it comes to multicultural agencies having managed a
number of our searches focused on reaching these growing demographic groups.
Marketing communications is my background, so it made sense that I was appointed to manage
RCG's own communication effort. You'll see my work (and our design firm's) reflected in our
Web site. I have over 15 years of experience running my own marketing business (the agency
side of things) and working for The Little Tikes Company (the client side), a multinational
manufacturer and marketer of children's products and a Newell/Rubbermaid company. My work
has ranged from media campaign creation to strategic marketing planning to crisis management.
I'm a big believer in the value of a liberal arts education (even though that education was
quite some time ago), which is why I graduated with honors with a degree in English literature
from St. Lawrence University in (very) upstate New York.
Volunteering is something I also believe in, so I spend my time outside of RCG helping to
find homes for rescued rabbits as a member of the Buckeye House Rabbit Society, serving on
the marketing committee for a Cleveland nonprofit that helps children with disabilities,
and interviewing potential students for St. Lawrence. I'm also a certified therapeutic
riding instructor teaching each week at Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center.
In between all that, I love spending time with my husband, my nieces and nephews, our rabbits
and my dog, Sherpa. She and I have just started sheep herding lessons — I'll keep you posted.
"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can
say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those
around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices in
life no more easily made. And give. Give in any way you can, of whatever you possess. To
give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is
shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace." —
Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son
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