Stefanie Santos McLeese
Born and raised in rural Texas to Mexican immigrants and as a first-generation college graduate, I grew up professionally in Dallas, and now reside just outside of Champaign, Illinois. I'm a global branding, multi-cultural, intuitive brand strategist with a killer Spidey sense and chameleon-like ability to go from boardroom to locker room, from the C-suite to steel-toed boots on a job site. It's simple; I love getting to the heart of a challenge and using data-driven, integrated communication solutions to build purpose-driven brands; to tell the marginalized stories; and to empower generations with products, services and solutions that make their life better today, and for many more tomorrows to come.
I spent the first eight years of my career growing and learning in corporate communications roles with global brands and have been independently serving clients for the last 12 years. My model is nimble and allows for working as an extension of an in-house branding/corp comm/MarComm team or I can assemble a precisely tailored team of sub-contracted talent to deliver full-service agency solutions.
C A P A B I L I T I E S
+Strategic communications plan development and implementation
+Earned and paid media counsel
+Brand identity development or refresh (Defining brand dimensions and values, and driving the visual identity)
+Communication Counsel in areas of crisis; employee engagement; organization/leadership change
+Creative counsel (photography and video ideation and direction)
+Diversity, Equity and Inclusion counsel
+Ghost-writing, copywriting, speech writing, and spokesperson training
I spent the first eight years of my career growing and learning in corporate communications roles with global brands and have been independently serving clients for the last 12 years. My model is nimble and allows for working as an extension of an in-house branding/corp comm/MarComm team or I can assemble a precisely tailored team of sub-contracted talent to deliver full-service agency solutions.
C A P A B I L I T I E S
+Strategic communications plan development and implementation
+Earned and paid media counsel
+Brand identity development or refresh (Defining brand dimensions and values, and driving the visual identity)
+Communication Counsel in areas of crisis; employee engagement; organization/leadership change
+Creative counsel (photography and video ideation and direction)
+Diversity, Equity and Inclusion counsel
+Ghost-writing, copywriting, speech writing, and spokesperson training
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