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Sustaining a successful business involves planning, tenacity, risk-taking and commitment. Sustaining a successful creative business involves vision, collaboration, professionalism and integrity. Maintaining these attributes in the face of client expectations, employee concerns and meeting payroll, all while summoning your creative muse is the opportunity in running your own firm....

* Maintained a 12-year relationship with the marketing and communications professionals at TIAA-CREF, bringing a consistent brand identity to nearly 500 individual projects
* Designed and/or directed the development of 30 health benefits programs for top-tier business consulting firms
* Became the agency of record for Money magazine's marketing department, producing media kits, special advertising sections and promotional materials over a 14 year span...