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It is a privilege to introduce you to the Board of Directors of the Association of Professional Communication Consultants. Talented individuals devote countless hours sharing their expertise to further the profession of communication consulting and to improve the benefits and visibility of this association and its membership. Join me in expressing appreciation for their continued commitment to APCC. Get to know your Board. Give the members a call or send an email.

Janet T. Cherry
President 2003-2003

Board of Directors

Janet T. Cherry, President
jtcherry@Fedex.com
Janet T. Cherry is currently a Training Advisor in Management Development at FedEx Express in Memphis, TN, and has a strong background in both internal and external consulting. Her private practice, The Communication Link, focuses on performance improvement through coaching and measuring the impact of results. Janet has publication credits, is a frequent speaker and facilitator nationally and internationally, and has an 18-year record of volunteer leadership in professional associations.

Linda Ginter Brown, Secretary
browld@email.uc.edu
Linda Ginter Brown is a faculty member of the University of Cincinnati where she serves as Department Head for the Humanities, Media and Cultural Studies Department at the College of Applied Science. Her consulting areas of expertise include business ethics and professional communication. She is a certified expert in corporate etiquette and international protocol.

Lee Clark Johns, Treasurer
leecjohns@prodigy.net
Lee Clark Johns has been an active communication consultant since 1978. As president of Strategic Communication, Inc, Tulsa, OK, she teaches professional writing and presentation skills to employees at all levels in business and industry, particularly major energy companies, banks, city government and manufacturers. 
The founding president of APCC, she is the current treasurer. She has received several outstanding training and professional awards from APCC and ASTD, and is listed in Who's Who in American Education.

Martha (Marty) Nord, Past President and Chair, Web Launch
marty@nordconsultants.com
As principal of Nord Consultants since 1981, Marty helps business and technical professionals develop as communicators and leaders. She specializes in training, coaching, and consulting in presenting, writing, facilitating, reducing conflict, and leading change. She developed the communication programs for Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering and Owen Graduate School of Management. She’s the past president of the Middle Tennessee chapter of ASTD, an STC Associate Fellow, and winner of awards from STC, IABC, and APCC.

Ken Davis, ABC Liaison
ken@komei.com 
Kenneth W. Davis is president of Komei, Inc., an Indianapolis-based consulting and training firm dedicated to “helping business create and communicate.” He specializes in international and intercultural communication and has worked in Botswana, Hong Kong, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, and the UK, as well as in the USA. Ken is professor and former chair of English and adjunct professor of communication studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and has authored or coauthored several textbooks.

Paula Foster, Ph.D., Online Forum Coordinator
pfosterc@earthlink.net
Paula is an award-winning teacher and trainer who discovered consulting while in grad school at Ohio State. After consulting part-time for several years in Ohio and Los Angeles, she shifted her focus to environmental work in 2002 and now works at an environmental nonprofit called TreePeople (www.treepeople.org). She also runs a national listserv called “Work For Us,” on nonacademic careers for humanities PhDs (www.woodrow.org/phd/wrk4us/). 

Lynn Hanson, Web Liaison
lhanson3@sc.rr.com
As a communication consultant for business and industry, Lynn offers services in project management, facilitation, documentation, and training in written and oral communication skills. As a technical writer, she has written product manuals and internal reports and assisted with designing the interface for case management online forms. In 2002, she was a winner of the Excellence in Writing Award given by the Association for Professional Communication Consultants. 

Jeanne Herrick, Managing Editor, Consulting Success
Kaleidoscope10@email.msn.com
Jeanne, a corporate anthropologist and communications specialist, works with organizations and individuals to improve how they deal with performance and project management, cultural diversity and globalization. Looking at cultural context as well as individual performance, Jeanne designs and implements communication strategies and training to help clients meet their goals.

Geraldine E. Hynes, Ph.D., Publication's Chair
GBA_GEH@shsu.edu
Gerry is an award-winning, internationally experienced communication specialist. She offers consulting, coaching, and customized training services. Her areas of expertise include presentation skills, business and technical writing, management communication, and interpersonal relations. Gerry is Assistant Professor of Business Communication in the College of Business Administration, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas. She also teaches in an MBA- Online program for the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

How many board members  does it take to hail a cab?

Melinda Kramer, Ph.D., Program Chair 
MelindaKramer@compuserve.com
Melinda is a communications consultant whose clients include Choice Hotels International, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chevy Chase Federal Savings Bank, Eli Lilly & Co., Blue Cross-Blue Shield, TRW Inc., and others. Author of Business Communication in Context (Prentice Hall) and the Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers, she is also chair of the English Department and teaches professional writing at Prince George's Community College near Washington, D.C.

Debra Hart May, Membership Chair 
debra@effectcommunication.com
Since 1985, Debra has designed instructional materials and facilitated communications skills workshops for business and government clients. She founded the Center for Effective Communication, Inc. (1992) and is author of the books Proofreading Plain & Simple and Everyday Letters for Busy People. Debra has taught adjunct for both Indiana University and Purdue University, and is a local past-president of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI). Deb and her husband Mark welcomed a baby daughter from China this past fall.

Kathleen Mohn, Awards Chair 
kathleen@speakandwrite.com
Kathleen is President of Productive Business Communicating, a training company that she formed in 1987. She develops and presents customized training programs for companies and agencies. All programs deal with improving workplace communication, particularly in these areas: Business and technical writing, audit report writing, performance management, presentation of audit findings, presentation skills.

Pam Scott, Internal Marketing 
pascott@mindspring.com
Pam Scott, principal of Armstrong Scott Network, is a Professional Outsider and communications consultant. She focuses on helping clients improve interpersonal and organizational communication. Her strengths come from her left-brain background in processes and critical thinking and her right-brain preferences for educating others about themselves and new possibilities. With Pam’s help, left-brain and right-brain people learn to work together successfully through better communication and teamwork.

Sherry Scott, Ph.D., Past President's Council 
sscott@sherryscottconsulting.com
Sherry (Sherry Scott Consulting) works with small business owners, corporate decision-makers and associations to share knowledge among their people in order to grow their business. Topics include business and technical writing, speaking and presenting, multicultural communication, ethical decision-making, business etiquette, human resource management, performance reviews and employee relations. Teaching Business Communication at Southwest Texas State University rounds out her schedule.

Barbara Shwom, Past President's Council and Listserv Manager
bshwom@northwestern.edu

Barbara Shwom specializes in communication consulting for consultants-people who sell their ideas and research to clients and whose work product is communication. Barbara is a partner in Shwom & Hirsch, Management Communication Consultants; since 1976, she has been on the faculty at Northwestern University, holding appointments in the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Kellogg School of Management.

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