Linda Stephens

The Pulse, Cornet Global

The Pulse, Cornet Global

Client: Project Management Advisors (PMA)

Challenge: write an article offering tips on remote project management to large brands building and managing facilities across the globe 

Solution: Linda worked with subject matter experts (SMEs) from PMA to write an article highlighting the firm’s experience achieving consistency among facilities for a client, a technology giant ranked in the top 100 of Fortune’s 500 top-earning companies. As this client expanded to establish offices across the globe, their goal of maintaining programmatic and aesthetic constancy among all offices presented a myriad of challenges in locations with extremely variable standards.

Article: “Remote Project Management: Establishing Facilities in Latin America” – The Pulse, Cornet Global (2020)

Services: SME interviews, research + development, ghostwriting

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Aurora Lighting Design

Aurora Lighting Design

Client: Aurora Lighting Design, Inc. creates inspiring environments in interior spaces including office, retail, healthcare, cultural, and education. 

Target audience: building owners and architectural firms

Challenge: Their website was dated, lacked cohesion, and was ineffective at communicating the firm’s extensive experience and capabilities. 

Solution: Linda led firm leadership through a deep assessment process designed to bring clarity and refinement to messaging pillars including innovation, responsiveness, creativity, and technical expertise. This served as the foundation for a brand standard refresh, the design of a new website, and copy development that differentiates Aurora from other competitors.

Services: brand review, competitive assessment, client interviews, messaging + copywriting

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ARI Resources

ARI Resources

Client: ARI Resources, a staffing firm for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry.

Target audience: AEC firms 

Challenge: ARI wanted a new website to shake off its dusty and outdated brand identity and clarify the firm’s personality and positioning.

Solution: Linda led ARI’s leadership team through a discovery process that clarified the firm’s aspirations and goals, assessed the competitive landscape, and collected insights from key clients. This process informed the design of a fresh brand identity, foundational messaging, and dynamic copy for new marketing initiatives including a website. 

Services: visioning exercise, competitive assessment, client interviews, brand strategy, messaging + copywriting

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S Projects

S Projects

Client: S Projects is an owner’s representative to mission-based organizations renovating or building new capital projects. 

Target audience: Mission-based, non-profit organizations

Challenge: newly established, S Projects wanted a website targeted to reach and engage non-profit leaders. 

Solution: Linda Stephens worked with the owner to define aspirations, assess the competitive landscape, and identify key differentiators to launch the new firm. Core messaging development provided the foundations for the creation of copy for a new website. 

Services: competitive assessment, client interviews, messaging + copywriting

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Project Management Advisors

Project Management Advisors, Inc.

Client: Project Management Advisors, Inc.(PMA) is a national real estate advisory firm that provides development and strategic consulting expertise within the built environment.

Target Audience: Commercial real estate owners

Challenge: PMA wanted to bring a fresh perspective to its message and copy for a new website. 

Solution: PMA had engaged a web designer for a new website and brought in Linda to create copy. She led a stakeholder group of leaders through a discovery process which revealed that the firm’s passionate commitment to building trust-based relationships was the most critical attribute identified by their current, best clients. The new website copy centered on the firm’s actively cultivated set of values. This approach was so well received that it was subsequently pulled through to other marketing collateral and formed the foundation for a thought leadership initiative.

Services: brand review, competitive assessment, client interviews, messaging + copywriting, digital communication, content + thought leadership, training + coaching

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Booth Hansen

Booth Hansen

Client: Established in 1980 and based in Chicago, Booth Hansen is recognized nationally as a leading architectural design firm.

Target Audience: owners, developers, project partners  

Challenge: Booth Hansen wanted a fresh approach to its website, featuring a substantial portfolio of project profiles. 

Solution: As the Director of Marketing, Linda conducted internal staff surveys, a competitive analysis, and a number of internal workshops to gather input and direction for a fresh approach to marketing strategy and a new website. Linda served as project manager, hiring an external web designer and also providing messaging strategy and content development/copywriting. New content included project profiles, staff bios, a firm overview + values statement, and a project approach. These elements were subsequently adapted for multiple collateral pieces including brochures and proposals.   

Services: visioning, surveys, competitive analysis, strategy, messaging + copywriting


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Chicago Architect

Chicago Architect

Client: Anonymous

Challenge: write an article on the importance of mentoring in architecture

Solution: Linda interviewed three senior principals of leading architecture firms on important strategic questions mid-career leaders face on growth, leadership development, and firm transitioning. 

Article: “Council Ring: When Mentoring at Midcareer, Three Retired Executives Urge a Focus on Fundamentals” – Chicago Architect (2011)

Services: interviews, research + development, byline writing

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Engineering News-Record

Engineering News-Record

Client: The Walsh Group

Challenge: write an article sharing the story of one of the firm’s employees, highlighting the importance of job safety

Solution: Linda worked with a superintendent to share his story of a bad decision costing him the digits on his right hand. The superintendent became a senior safety trainer for the firm following his accident. 

Article: “Choices that Define Lives” – Engineering News-Record (2018)

Services: SME interview, ghostwriting

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Sound Specialists, Inc.

Sound Specialists, Inc.

Client: Sound Specialists is a full-service integrated systems designer and installer for residential, commercial, and multi-unit dwellings.

Target Audience: Residential and commercial real estate owners and developers

Challenge: The growing firm required a website, qualifications package, and print mailer campaign series for business development activities. 

Solution: As the internal Director of Marketing + Operations, Linda provided art direction and created messaging + copywriting for a website featuring project case studies, a flexible print qualifications package, and a series of print postcards.

Services: strategy, art direction, messaging + copywriting

 

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