Quinn Hudson, APR
Quinn has more than 25 years of experience in public relations, executive communications, public affairs and community relations.
He has provided communications counsel and programs for Delta Air Lines, UPS, Georgia-Pacific, Recall Corporation, Coca-Cola North America and Matria Healthcare, among others. Quinn managed the Olympics sponsorship program for Xerox Corp. during the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games in 1996. Prior to founding HSG with Thad, he led business-to-business communications at GCI Group, one of Atlanta’s largest and most respected agencies.
Quinn is a member of the program committee for the Commerce Club of Atlanta, the membership committee for the Midtown Alliance, the Logistics Council for the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and on the board of the Atlanta Chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute.
Allison Conrad – Branding Strategy
Allison has more than 17 years of experience in brand strategy development and marketing communications. For 12 years she worked at IBM where she was a Global Brand Manager. At IBM, Allison was responsible for developing brand initiatives and customer relationship programs in over 20 countries. Currently, at HSG she is managing a re-branding program for an $8 billion global company. Allison knows how to reach the “Man in the Middle.”
Tack Cornelius – Executive Messaging
Tack Cornelius’s experience in journalism, government, and the corporate world taught him how the media works, how to sharpen a vague message into one that will stick, and how to communicate the message. He has worked as a reporter in Washington, as an aide and speech writer for Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collin, and for two CEOs at BellSouth. Tack has written speeches and corporate communications plans for several HSG clients. He knows how to get executives out of the bunker to being effective communicators for the organization. Tack is also noted for teaching speechwriting, whether beginners or veteran writers.
Grayson Hurst Daughters – Social Media Consultant
Grayson Hurst Daughters honed her mainstream media credentials with almost twenty years of experience in broadcast journalism, editorial writing and corporate communications. In the last few years, however, she’s left the comforts and confines of the mainstream and taken a wild ride down the social media trail. Occasionally she surfaces to write a mainstream editorial or two, then it’s back down the social media road, because not only is social media addictive, it is simply the most fun she’s ever had in communications. Grayson indulges herself in all-things-Internet by blogging every day, producing and writing broadband video, original web shows, podcasts—and of course, YouTubing as if her life depends on it. Your company’s communications lifeline could very well depend on social media, too
Jeff Dickerson – Public Affairs
Jeff served as a journalist for 22 years, spending most of that time crafting and honing arguments for the editorial pages of The Detroit News and The Atlanta Journal. As an editorial writer for The Atlanta Journal, Dickerson specialized in some of the editorial page’s most complicated and controversial topics, including federal budgets, taxation, Social Security reform, state and local issues and analyses of appellate and U.S. Supreme Court rulings. Jeff has managed several important business driver issues for HSG clients. He knows when to get in the media and how not to when necessary.
Amy Gray, APR – Nashville Media and Community Relations
Amy has 14 years of experience in corporate, healthcare and nonprofit public relations with an emphasis in designing integrated marketing communications programs that are aligned with a company’s business goals and utilize a mix of media and community relations, strategic partnerships and internal communications.
Amy earned her accreditation in public relations (APR) status from Public Relations Society of America in 2003 and serves as public service chair for the Nashville Chapter of PRSA. She also assists several nonprofits in the community including the Eating Disorder Coalition of Tennessee, Homework Hotline and Fellowship Bible Church’s Express-Festival of the Arts and the School of Dance.
Janet Harrell – Technology
Janet is a skilled writer and communications strategist with more than a decade of experience, much of it in high tech. Janet’s career, a combination of corporate and agency experience, includes serving as a senior-level corporate communicator and PR manager for the nation's largest healthcare information systems vendor, holding senior account manager positions at high-tech public relations agencies, and serving as staff editor for Bottom Line/Personal, a bimonthly newsletter published by Boardroom Reports, Inc. Besides a flair for Cajun cooking, she knows how to mix the right ingredients for a good message.
Susan Hart – Nashville Media and Community Relations
Beginning her career as a journalist, Susan Hart, APR, has more than 22 years of professional experience in corporate, agency and non-profit public relations. Using the key elements of research, planning, implementation and evaluation, Susan helps organizations accomplish their business goals through strategic public relations and marketing planning, internal communications, writing, media relations, media training and crisis preparedness and management. She currently represents local and national clients in health care, technology and professional services.
Jennifer Hartz – Corporate Community Involvement
Jenn provides community and government relations consulting and project management services to companies seeking to leverage partnerships to address business issues. She is a former consultant with McKinsey & Company and Towers Perrin and was in community relations with The Home Depot, McKinsey & Company, Georgia-Pacific, and iXL Enterprises. The volunteer program she developed at The Home Depot was recognized with a Presidential Service Award in a White House ceremony. Jenn’s volunteer leadership roles have included organizations such as: WhyServe, Hands On Atlanta, the Entrepreneur’s Foundation, Anti-Defamation League, TechBridge, Digital Ball, Atlanta International School, Atlanta Women’s Foundation, Westminster Schools, Atlanta Girls School, Temple Sinai, Atlanta Housing Forum, and the Atlanta Community Food Bank. She is a 2002 International Marshall Memorial Fellow. Jenn can help you connect.
John McCosh – Issues Management
For more than two decades John has written about metro Atlanta’s growth and development from a business and public policy perspective. As a reporter at the Atlanta Business Chronicle and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he covered the urbanization of Atlanta’s suburbs and the growing pains that followed. McCosh’s newspaper experience also includes years as an investigative reporter and an editor. His corporate communications writings include a recent book on the history of a large Florida insurance company. From his years investigating others, John knows what the media is looking for.
Charles McNair – “The Culture Doctor”
Charles McNair has deep skills and experience in employee communications and employee relations that have led to national and international assignments with top global companies. In 1997, Charles served as Business Editor for South. magazine, which won eight awards by the Magazine Association of Georgia in 1997, including best magazine in the state. His novel, Land O' Goshen (St. Martin's Press, 1994) received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for fiction and critical acclaim from the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, and other important publications. He held the position of Director-Internal Communications at BellSouth Corporation’s holding company, coordinating communication strategies and change messaging for 11 decentralized BellSouth companies, including international and cellular organizations. He also served as editor of BellSouth Magazine and all other internal publications. Charles’ passion for telling the truth based on the employees’ enlightened self-interests gets the message across.
Doug Monroe – Manuscript Writing
Until recently, Doug Monroe was a senior editor of Creative Loafing, Atlanta’s alternative weekly, where he wrote a column called “Humbug Square,” in honor of Atlanta’s 19th Century gathering place for snake-oil salesmen and soap-box orators. A fifth-generation Atlantan, Doug is a former columnist and contributing editor for Atlanta magazine, and a former reporter, editor and columnist for United Press International and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He is the author of The Maverick Spirit, a 45,000-word history of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. Doug is one of the most gifted writers in the country. He can tell a story better than anyone.
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