STRONG MANAGER
CREATIVE COMMUNICATOR

Marj Halperin has more than 20-years experience targeting messages to audiences. She’s a strategic management professional whose external and internal communications strategies deliver results for corporations, non-profits and government agencies. You’ll find just about all types of communications in her solid track record, from reputation management, crisis communications and media relations to internal communications and culture change strategies.

Halperin knows how make the message work, combining communications strategies with program design, management and execution. She has a strong presence in business, government and media circles and brings an extensive network of relationships and partners to each project. It’s a network built on a foundation of integrity and an emphasis on consensus building.

Before starting her own practice, Marj served ten years as President and CEO of the League of Chicago Theatres. She guided Chicago’s live theater industry to its current, high-profile brand recognized internationally for talent and innovation. And, as Campaign Manager, she ran Cook County Commissioner Forrest Claypool’s 2006 bid for Cook County Board President. She’s held positions directing communications policy for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, the Chicago Park District, Illinois State Treasurer and Chicago Public Schools.

Halperin began her professional career as an award-winning journalist, sharpening the research, writing and analytical skills that still guide her work today. Her political commentary is currently featured on the WGN-TV Morning News and her radio reports have been featured on local Chicago radio as well as NPR and NBC Radio Network News. You can still hear Marj as an occasional guest newscaster on WXRT-FM.