Linda Stephens

HolcimUS

HolcimUS (now Amrize)

Client: HolcimUS is a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions including Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates, and Solutions & Products.

Target Audience: architects, contractors, builders, developers, and building owners

Challenge: HolcimUS was redesigning its website and needed both copyediting and copywriting.

Solution: Linda provided copyediting for 34 pages and copywriting for 20+ pages following the company’s established Messaging Guide.

Services: project management, messaging + copywriting

 


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HolcimUS

HolcimUS (now Amrize)

Client: HolcimUS is a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, including Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates, and Solutions & Products.

Target Audience: architects, contractors, builders, developers, and building owners  

Challenge: Holcim needed to build its portfolio of Noteworthy Projects featuring its sustainable product lines to support communications, marketing, and business development efforts. 

Solution: Linda proactively interfaced with HolcimUS internal stakeholders nationwide to gather data on identified projects to inform story development. Along with general project information, sustainability-related data points were the focus (i.e. tons of CO2 saved, etc.). Images for each project were also sourced.     

Services: project management, interviews, research + development, messaging + copywriting


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Thought Leadership Campaign / Owned Media

Thought Leadership Campaign

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 and organizations/institutions that own facilities

Challenge: The client envisioned a series of thought leadership content pieces to educate, inspire, and influence their target audiences and to establish itself as a leading expert on specific topics.

Solution: Linda worked with the client to outline the mission and objectives for the content campaign, including brand pillars and content categories. Internal subject matter experts (SMEs) were identified. Linda worked with each individually to develop an outline, research supporting documentation and reference material, and ghostwrite the article, typically for publication as owned media (website blog, LinkedIn). Linda also crafted LinkedIn posts providing introductions for the articles.

More than 30 pieces of thought leadership content were written over six years. Selected articles are featured below with additional titles available upon request.

Services: strategy, research + development, messaging + ghostwriting


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Commercial Property Executive

Commercial Property Executive

Client: Project Management Advisors (PMA)

Challenge: article on California’s seismic retrofit mandates

Solution: Linda worked with subject matter experts (SME’s) from PMA and consulting engineering firm Tipping to write an article on challenges faced by commercial building owners in California to retrofit older structures that are highly vulnerable to seismic events per mandates in specific cities. Specifically, nonductile concrete buildings built before modern seismic codes established in the mid-1970s present significant life safety and resilience risks in the event of an earthquake because they are inflexible or brittle due to a lack of reinforcing steel. 

Publication: “Tackling California’s Seismic Retrofit Mandates” – Commercial Property Executive (2024)

Services: SME interviews, research + development, ghostwriting

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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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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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