Joan Stewart helps businesses, non-profits and government agencies establish their expertise, enhance their credibility and position themselves as the employers of choice by developing and maintaining good relations with the print and broadcast media.
She is a speaker, trainer and consultant with The Summit Group, LLC based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Joan has 22 years of media experience as a newspaper reporter and editor. Most recently, Joan was editor of The Business Journal in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She also edited The Sheboygan (WI) Press, The Express-Times in Easton (PA) and was managing editor of the Lake County (OH) News-Herald.
Joan is a frequent contributor to national magazines, trade journals and on-line publications. She is also the "Ask the Expert" columnist on public relations for Entrepreneur magazine's web site at Entrepreneur.com, where she writes a monthly column.
She is a member of the National Speakers Association and the 2000-2001 president of Wisconsin Professional Speakers Association.
Through customized seminars, workshops and one-on-one coaching, she tells you how to convince editors and news directors to print or broadcast your story, how to be cool and confident while meeting with the media during a crisis, and how to ace difficult interviews with reporters.
She also creates publicity campaigns and offers a variety of writing and editing support services. Joan is publisher of The Publicity Hound, a bi-monthly subscription newsletter featuring "tips, tricks and tools for free publicity." She also is publisher of the booklets "113 Tips for Recruiting Valuable Employees" and "107 Tips for Keeping Valuable Employees."
