Julie Conrad

Julie Conrad, Senior Facilitator

“We had a short window to create and roll out several new programs. Julie quickly grasped the nature of our organization and helped us prioritize what needed to be accomplished…responsive, efficient and always keeping our organization’s goals and key constituents in mind.” Lee Friedman, CEO, Cleveland Leadership Center

For more than a decade, Julie has specialized in spearheading, managing and implementing communication programs for business-to-business, healthcare, technology, consumer and non-profit organizations. She partners with them to define their story, believe their story and to provide cost- and time-effective activities to get that story out to key targets.

Julie has a special interest in creating communication roadmaps for small businesses and start-ups to help influence their growth and profitability.

She has worked with a big p.r. firm as well as mid-size firms. Included in this experience was a stint with Cohn & Wolfe in New York, time spent with technology public relations firm Airfoil Public Relations in Detroit, and work for Dan Pinger Public Relations in Cincinnati.

Clients Julie has counseled include:

• Automatic Data Processing (ADP)
• PGA of America
• Sanofi-Aventis (Aventis)
• Ford
• MSN
• Johnson Controls Telematics Division

She has also worked on the client side where she established the communication department at JustTalk, a speech recognition enterprise software company.

Julie, who operates Julie Conrad Communications, LLC, is a speech communications graduate of Miami University and an Accredited Member of PRSA.