Our People
Patricia R. Bayerlein
With over fifteen years of experience in international marketing and communications, Patricia Bayerlein has advised local governments on international relations and developed business-to-business markets in Europe and the Pacific Rim.
Peter Debreceny
After recently retiring as vice president of Corporate Relations at Allstate Insurance Company, responsible for internal and external communications for the Allstate Corporation and its subsidiaries, Peter Debreceny has been with Gagen MacDonald since the end of 2007.
Nora Ellis
Nora Ellis' 18-year career has focused on enhancing employees' professional development to unleash an organization's talent and competitive advantage. She specializes in human resource systems and organizational design.
Richard Fruin
Rich Fruin's seven years of broad consulting and corporate experience are enabling him to contribute in a big way to one of Gagen MacDonald's largest-ever change initiatives. Working as part of an embedded team, Rich is responsible for leading and executing the internal communications and change effort in the finance and corporate center departments of the company as well as overseeing external communications with suppliers.
Maril Gagen MacDonald
Maril MacDonald is a nationally recognized leader in communications and strategy execution. She has pioneered a discipline that collaborates with corporate leaders to optimize business performance by engaging and mobilizing stakeholders behind a company's strategic goals, its culture and its brand. Her clients include some of the most recognized brands in the world.
Rose R. Gailey
During her near-30 year career, Rose Gailey has led leadership development initiatives in over 20 Fortune 1000 companies, ranging in industry from automotive manufacturing, commercial aerospace and foodservice to pharmaceuticals, financial services and insurance. Rose is an expert in executive coaching and assessment, and is currently co-pioneering a versatile leadership analysis model, and applying it with two global clients.
Robert A. Garcia
Bob Garcia brings to client engagements over 20 years of global industry and higher education experience in executive coaching, HR integration, strategic planning, talent management, organizational effectiveness, succession planning, training and group facilitation.
M. Erik Gonring
Erik Gonring's experience with Gagen MacDonald is affording him opportunities to contribute to a wide array of client assignments in the automotive, aviation, chemical manufacturing, consulting, consumer products, financial services, food service, pharmaceutical and retail industries. His experiences include integration communications strategy and execution for two major merger-acquisitions in the chemical and retail industries.
Matthew P. Gonring
Matt Gonring joined Gagen MacDonald in 2006 after a nearly-30-year career with major global corporations - the past 20 leading the function of communications and marketing for four Fortune 500 companies. He is widely published and recognized as a global leader in marketing integration, internal, organizational and external communications.
J. Chandler Goodman
Chandler Goodman joined Gagen MacDonald as a recent graduate of Colgate University. In Chandler's short time with the company he has already participated in internal communications assessments for two major companies. In these projects, Chandler used his propensity for research and analysis to sort complex survey data and identify relevant themes.
Barbara Govednik
Helping company leaders at all levels talk with their employees with impact and empathy has been the hallmark of Barbara Govednik's communications career. A communication consultant and writer with more than 20 years experience, Barbara helps individuals uncover their stories and tell them with clarity.
Barbara Jacobs
With more than two decades of providing advice and counsel to a variety of businesses, Barbara Jacobs' experience spans across the spectrum of communications, advertising, marketing and public relations. She specializes in organizational and HR Communications, in change management initiatives and in driving employee adoption of new behaviors.
Julie Kness
Julie Kness brings a wealth of strategic communications experience to clients who are seeking change management and culture building expertise. From mergers and acquisitions to innovation methodology and internal branding, her work has focused on creating a clear line of sight between individual efforts and organizational goals.
Lauren A. Kostas
Lauren Kostas works with companies to achieve results by creating actionable plans to engage employees in delivering on the business strategy. Her areas of experience include helping clients' visions and values become operational and enabling employees to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
Morgan Marzec
Morgan Marzec's ability to get to the heart of complex business issues, simplify change and create actionable plans helps Gagen MacDonald clients engage employees to improve operational performance.
Judith A. Muhlberg
Judith Muhlberg understands first-hand how to drive results within Fortune 500 global companies and is experienced in dealing with many business issues, ranging from mergers and acquisitions to leadership communications, labor relations and executive development to employee engagement and change and culture management.
Lisa M. Perkins
With an ability to clarify and simplify complex business strategy, Lisa Perkins has helped a number of Gagen MacDonald clients succeed in large-scale change where employee engagement was imperative to achieving sustainable business results. Taking a change management approach to communications, she has applied her expertise during performance turnarounds, merger integration, major system implementations and culture change efforts.
Bronwyn Poole
As a change management professional with more than 15 years of consulting experience, Bronwyn Poole helps leaders engage employees to implement major transitions in business strategy and achieve results. Her expertise includes change program design and management, merger integration, culture assessment, organization redesign, change leadership development and strategic internal communications.
Patricia Ratulangi
With broad experience in corporate and marketing communications, Patricia Ratulangi's passion is engaging employees to become brand ambassadors for their companies. She has developed and implemented strategic internal and external communications solutions for global and regional companies.
Donna L. Reynolds
Donna Reynolds combines leadership with expertise in developing and implementing strategic employee communications initiatives during times of corporate transitions and new strategic directions.
Adrianne G. Rieck
With a broad background in product and brand management, as well as strategic business communications, Adrianne Rieck has led product development efforts enabling companies to tap emerging markets and counseled clients on maximizing employee relationships to drive performance and bottom-line results.
Sherry Scott
Sherry Scott has 18-years of results-driven experience in change management, leadership and employee engagement, strategic planning, labor communication and internal and corporate communication.
Donna J. Uchida
Donna Uchida offers her clients the experience of a senior-level executive with results-oriented management experience in strategic communications including change management, employee engagement, issues management, global communications, risk communications, media relations, executive and financial communications.
Mary E. Wallenfang
Mary Wallenfang brings more than a decade of experience in a full range of internal and external communications activities that have helped organizations achieve their strategic goals. Mary enjoys getting to the bottom of what motivates people and creating powerful programs that get results.
Vikki Watson
Vikki brings more than 22 years of internal, corporate, executive communications and media experience to clients, with a focus on creating strategic communications that inform, educate and positively influence internal stakeholders.
Katherine Wilburn
Katherine Wilburn joined Gagen MacDonald as a recent graduate of Boston University where she received a Master's of Science in Corporate Communication. Currently, she is providing writing support and exploring methods of social media that will assist in the implementation of a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system at Edison International, parent company to one of the largest electric utilities in the U.S., Southern California Edison.
