Catherine Beynon

Cathy Beynon is a writer and web designer with a focus on applying best practices and relating information through straightforward, accessible language. Her strong audience awareness/analysis skills and ability to relate information to the experiences of individuals help people grasp elaborate or complicated ideas, processes, theories, or rules. As a consultant, Ms. Beynon is adept at studying a situation then conceiving entirely new ways of seeing or doing things, solving problems based on root causes, designing plans, and acquiring new competencies. As an editor of technical documents, Ms. Beynon has an eye for content organization and clarity of thought. Her ability to coordinate virtual teams with multiple authors enables project teams to seamlessly deliver high-quality reports in excess of 1,000+ pages. Twice she has been the document quality and communication glue between a 30+ member team working at crisis speed to simultaneously develop and submit two delivery packages totaling more than 3,100 pages. With more than 7 years of volunteer experience in a high crime and socioeconomically disadvantaged community, her passion for enabling self-discovery and win-win situations has been underscored through graduate courses in Managing Public Disputes, Conflict Analysis and Intervention, Managing Conflict in Schools, Facilitating Multi-Party Conflicts, Negotiation, and Mediation. She is known by her friends for her natural abilities to recognize and cultivate the potential in others, reframe perspectives, identify common ground, and conceive new concepts. Ms. Beynon excels in technical communication theory, usability, writing for the web, strengthening brands through online user experience and employee engagement, writing for training and development, technical writing and editing, software documentation, indexing, grant writing, legal reasoning, and writing for children and families.