Susan Kirk is a Marketing Communications and Public Relations professional with over 15 years of strategic and tactical implementation experience with a variety industries and companies: technology, environment, retail, real estate, health care, government, hospitality, and not-for-profit.
Susan specializes in working with organizations to build profiles, manage reputations, communicate through change, engage with stakeholders and build customer leads using a combination of traditional marketing communications and online strategies and tactics.
During Susan’s 15+ years she has worked public and private companies, ranging in size from single proprietorship to NASDAQ 100 and multinational:
- Marketing Communications and Public Relations Consultant.
- Communications Manager with retailer Future Shop / Best Buy Canada.
- Communications Consultant with Hoggan & Associates and clients such as Business Objects (now SAP), Intracorp, Wesbild, Capers (now Whole Foods), Canpages (now Yellow Pages), Naikun Wind Energy, Land Title and Survey Authority of BC, MDA and Sustainability Research Initiatives.
- Public Relations Consultant with Margo Bates Publicity and clients BC Professional Firefighters Burn Fund, Tom Lee Music, and Whistler Real Estate.
- Corporate Communications Manager, Public Relations Leader and Marketing Communications Specialist with technology company PMC-Sierra.
- Corporate Communications with food and beverage distributor Leading Brands.
- Public Relations with Information Technology Consulting company Sierra Systems.
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Susan is an accredited member of the Canadian Public Relations Society and currently holds a Board position with CPRS Vancouver as Chair of Accreditation. Other education includes a Royal Roads University Communications Management certificate, BCIT Marketing Communications certificate, and a Bachelor of Arts degree (Economics major) from the University of British Columbia.
