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ABOUT ZUMWALD & COMPANY
Zumwald & Company – a woman-owned business established in 1989 – specializes in communication planning, employee communication, marketing communications, media relations/public relations, new media/technology, publications, and copywriting and editing. We also provide professional speechwriting and speech coaching services and speaking/training on business communication, writing, editing and proofreading.
Through our established supplier partners, we offer website design/development, professional graphic design/layout, illustration, photography and printing services.
Over the past two decades, we have served a wide variety of clients including:
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We also have served federal government agencies as a subcontractor to several prime contractors.
Our purpose: to collaborate with businesses – and their employees, clients, customers and stakeholders – to craft the clear messages and tell the compelling stories that inspire audiences to action.
ABOUT TERESA ZUMWALD
Teresa Zumwald is a communications consultant, project manager, copywriter, speechwriter and author with 27 years of professional experience. She is owner and president of
Zumwald & Company.
Teresa leads teams that often include corporate executives, managers, and technical and administrative staff. She routinely manages complex projects, working closely with graphic designers, Web developers, photographers, printers and other suppliers. Her work has been published in more than 35 magazines, journals and corporate publications, both internal and external, and has won writing awards from nine professional organizations. Teresa is also the author of three corporate history books.
Her skills include:
- Project planning
- Project management
- Team leadership
- Strategy
- Research
- Interviewing
- Copywriting
- Editing
- Proofreading
Before establishing Zumwald & Company, Teresa was a communications specialist for Geographic Information Services at Woolpert, a national design, geospatial and infrastructure management firm.
She also has been a reporter/copy editor for the department of University Communications at The Ohio State University, and a writer/copy editor for Diagnostic Medicine magazine in New Jersey.
Teresa holds a B.A. in journalism from The Ohio State University in Columbus and a minor in marketing.
She routinely attends local, regional, national and international communications conferences. In addition, she’s taken seminars and courses in these topic areas:
- Advanced feature writing
- Advanced topics in marketing (Antioch University McGregor)
- Best electronic/print resources for copy editors
- Blogging
- Business of speechwriting
- Copywriting
- Creative marketing
- Direct mail
- Internet marketing
- The modern print publication
- Newsletter production
- Powerful presentations
- PowerPoint
- Presenting data and information
- Printing/prepress
- Public speaking
- Reading dynamics
- Social media
- Speechwriting: basic, advanced and master courses
- Strategic organizational publications
- Website design
- Writing for new media
- Writing for the Web
- Writing that sells