Also known as: katmatthews
People often comment that I have a knack for spotting opportunity and making things happen. Its this ability, and my genuine commitment to living a passionate and empowered life, that have allowed me to forge a creative and successful- albeit unconventional-career and educational path. I have years communications experience working with clients in and out of the Fortune across an array of industries. Im analytical, creative, and an extremely hard-worker. When I sink my teeth into something, people marvel at how long I can sit for, concentrating to solve complex problems or working on in-depth projects. Im not a type-A person, but I love working with people and on teams. Mentoring others and providing feedbackeven if it means having difficult conversationsis something I take pleasure in. My zest for life has taken me across the globe for school, work, and pleasure. Ive crossed ancient salt lakes , meters above sea level, become familiar with the inside of a Tibetan hospital, hitchhiked across France, flown an airplane, and jumped of the cliffs off Lima. Ive attended school in Canada, Denmark, and mainland China, and worked abroad in Taiwan and Japan. These unique experiences allowed me to complete a masters degree before I finished my undergraduate degree, winning a prestigious award while I was at it. In addition to my love of travel and working with people, I have a deep-seated and persistent need to make a difference in this world a big, positive difference. When I can, I volunteer my free time to help amazing organizations or projects to improve our city, country, and world. Specialties communications strategy and implementation, sponsorship strategy and proposals, international and intercultural communications, employee and internal communications, communications audits, perception audits, stakeholder surveys and analysis, key messaging development and roll-out, writing, editing, project management, and budget development and tracking, account management, business development.
