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A journalist and author, Ann writes for major media outlets,
print and online, as well as corporations. The latter group has
included Adobe, Cisco, Discover, Gap Co, Hewlett Packard,
Symantec and Yahoo. Ann’s clear, concise prose and ability to
tap emotions help engage and motivate target audiences. Her work
enables companies to communicate clearly with and to galvanize
stakeholders to achieve strategic objectives.
Ann’s first book, the co-authored autobiography of Kinko’s
founder Paul Orfalea, Copy This! (Workman, New York City)
is, in part, a saga of effective employee engagement and the
quest to understand the emotional drivers behind every business
transaction – the customer’s and the employee’s. Ann speaks
publicly about her writing and collaborates with clients on
select book projects.
Over the course of her career, Ann has helped clients design,
build, write and edit communication plans, global communication
vehicles, motivational campaigns for employees, video scripts,
internal newsletters and a virtual collaboration space for
thousands of global innovators.
A former staff writer with Forbes, Ann researched The Forbes
400 for two years and wrote both cover stories. She chronicled
the market and social transformations of Eastern European
societies from a home base in Prague as a freelance foreign
correspondent. Her work has appeared in more than two dozen
publications including Forbes, Fast Company, Business 2.O
Magazine, BusinessWeek Online, Fortune Small Business, Red
Herring, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O, The Oprah
Magazine, The Prague Post, Victoria Magazine, Salon.com and
Stanford Magazine.
Ann helped write the essays that led Working Mother Magazine
to select ROI Communication as a 2007 Working Mother Best Small
Company, one of 25 honorees nationwide.
Ann holds a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford
University. She studied at the Sorbonne and L'Institut d'Etudes
Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. |
