Ivy’s career has taken her down an unconventional path, with leadership roles in the corporate world, as an entrepreneur, as CEO of a major national non-profit and as a public policy advocate in our nation’s capital. Along the way, she has cultivated a unique perspective on how organizations work, leaders think, and successful managers mobilize others. She has helped organizations and their leaders develop compelling narratives, and she’s known for a professional style that engages, inspires and guides leaders to deliver high-impact results.
Ivy’s boutique corporate communications agency has been advising companies and executives for nearly 20 years, crafting big ideas and delivering outsized results for her clients. As a sought-after speaker and moderator, Ivy has addressed audiences at the White House, the National Football League, at rallies with 10,000 young people, and before business and civic audiences of all sizes all over the world. She has moderated programs on such diverse topics as business strategy, technology trends, corporate social responsibility, crisis communications, investment and entrepreneurship – even mayoral debates.
She has worked with companies such as Procter & Gamble, DHL, KEEN, the National Football League, Western Union, J.D. Power, MasterCard, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Digitas Health, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, and Wells Fargo. For 10 years Ivy served as CEO of the nation’s most prominent youth empowerment and drug abuse prevention organization.