Kathy is willing to lead you through the process of organizing and focusing the beginnings so you arrive at the right solution.  I cannot stress enough how helpful this will be to you in the long run.
-- Lucinda Crabtree, Principal, Crabtree+Company

 

Organizations I work with get my full dedication in three key areas: strategy, facilitation/training and writing.

I combine communications skills with experience in the developing world. From gap analysis to training, breakthrough ideas to editorial services, my skills can take you the next step. You’ll find my work for clients throughout this Web site: the expected, such as complete campaign strategies and executive speeches, and the unexpected, such as TV dramas for developing markets and cartoon "characters" explaining complex subject matter. Your goals become my passion.

Curating

I had a discussion the other night with an historian of medieval art. He lamented that so many of the paintings of that era lose their impact because they are devoid of context.

“How so,” I asked, thinking of hours spent wandering the Uffizi and the Madonna and Child overload I experienced there. “Exactly!” he said. Imagine the impact of just one monumental Madonna and Child painting – he mentioned a specific one but of course I have forgotten which – as you exit a stone church in a hilltop village after having prayed fervently that,

- your crop would survive
- your child would survive
- the soldiers would come
- the soldiers wouldn’t come
- etc.

That Madonna might stop you in your tracks because in the context of that stone church, She was all-knowing and perhaps all-powerful. Hung in a room with fourteen others similar to her, She becomes more of a commodity. Her context works against her after so many centuries of working for her. What does context have to do with communications?

Too often, people implement communications tools with little or no context. Does your audience READ a brochure? Or is their context more online? Does your audience know you well enough to care if you are speaking at a conference? Or would a panel discussion be a better context for your audience to be introduced to you? Context is what your audience knows and where you intersect with them. Paying attention to context helps your communications pay off.