About Ann Wylie

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Ann Wylie runs a company called Wylie Communications Inc. She works with PR professionals who want to reach more readers and with organizations that want to get the word out.

She is the author of more than a dozen learning tools that help PR pros improve their communication skills, including "Anatomy of a Press Release, Pitch and E-mailed Release"; "Cut Through the Clutter"; and "Art of the Storyteller." Her manual, Planning Powerful Publications, published by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), has been called “the bible” of publication planning.

Ann has served on all sides of the PR “desk”: as a PR pro in an agency, as a corporate communicator for Hallmark Cards Inc., as editor of a nationally acclaimed executive magazine and as a consultant in her own firm.

Her work has earned 40 communication awards, including a Women In Communications (WIC) Clarion and two IABC Gold Quills — the Pulitzer Prizes of business communications.

Now, Ann handles special writing and editing projects for Saint Luke's, Reader's Digest, The Mayo Clinic and dozens of other major clients. She helps such organizations as FedEx, Sprint and Northern Trust launch or improve their publications.

Ann’s popular workshops take her from Atlanta to Amsterdam, from Boston to Brussels, from Hollywood to Helsinki and from Portland to Paris. There, she helps communicators at NASA, Motorola, Nokia, AT&T, America Online, H&R Block and other organizations polish their skills and find new inspiration for their work.

Ann has been designated an "IABC Recommended Speaker" for her top ratings at IABC International Conferences. She serves as the Public Relations Society of America’s national writing coach.

Ann holds an M.A. in journalism from the University of Kansas. In addition to her full-time work, she taught graduate communication courses at Webster University for more than a decade.