Brian Stuart

My career has focused on helping companies and clients find their distinct voice in the marketplace and create strong reputations that attract customers and financial resources. I have been able to bring focus to complex organizations and translate top-level business strategy into marketing tactics that advance the work of mission-driven institutions. My background includes strategic communication, branding and identity, public relations, news and feature writing, copy editing, event scripting, graphic design, advertising, publication production, web content management and aligning work teams around a common goal. Across these functions, I have demonstrated an ability to set a clear strategic path in the context of competing priorities. This marketing experience follows five years in print journalism. As a reporter, I conducted research and interviews, then wrote deadline-driven stories that communicated complex subjects with clarity, accuracy and attention to audience. My career spans non-profit human service organizations and higher education institutions. An additional freelance portfolio includes projects as varied as writing web copy, preparing a client's book manuscript and working with a doctoral candidate to edit and strengthen the argument of her thesis. I have been particularly successful working with diverse clients, forging positive relationships across business units and helping small departments leverage limited resources. I am able to assess a changing market landscape and create workable solutions that provide lasting value to a company and match its capacity to execute. Specialties: communicating consistently across different media; helping organizations maintain focus; bringing strategic rigor and discipline to marketing; high-level planning; providing executive counsel to senior management; keeping teams motivated and aligned to accomplish goals.