Creative Storyteller & Business Communications Advisor

Trusted communications advisor and creative corporate storyteller with expertise in business-communications strategy and crafting content for internal and external audiences.

I worked with our Asst. General Counsel to write and edit the content for this handbook, and then I used MS Publisher to design and lay out the book for electronic publication.

Almost every quarter, BakerRipley hosts "BakerRipley LIVE!" for agency leadership or all employees. It's a two-hour meeting that includes speakers and presentations about important agency initiatives. This event introduced our DEI strategy. I wrote this recap.

I wrote this email for our President and CEO Claudia Aguirre to thank our agency's teaching staff.

In the wake of the Uvalde massacre, I was asked to craft a communication for our President and CEO. This was the result.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government scrambled to write and pass temporary laws that would provide aid to as many of the country’s 333.5 million citizens as possible. With so many people sick, paid sick leave and paid emergency family and medical leave became a priority.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, certain types of fraud have been on the rise because of supercharged stimulus incentives passed to combat the economic impact of the pandemic. Unemployment insurance (UI) fraud, in particular, has become a major source of concern.

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) was signed into law on March 11, 2021. Following is a list of important changes and deadline extensions for the laws affecting your small or mid-sized business, as well as a list of actions you will need to take immediately to remain in compliance.

If 2020's COVID-19 pandemic taught business leaders anything, it’s that a willingness to change and the ability to adapt can mean the difference between a business succeeding or failing. But how do you know what to change and how to adapt? Look to your employees.

Hosting team-building events, catering employee gatherings, and having game rooms for your employees to hang out in is great for everyday morale boosts. But employees also want to know that their company truly values their contributions as a means to achieve its larger purpose.

G&A Partners announced that Michelle Mikesell has been promoted to the firm’s newly created executive position of chief people officer.

G&A Partners announced that for the first time in its 25-year history, it will be entering into an investor relationship. The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has made a minority investment in G&A Partners.

In her recent article for Food & Beverage Magazine, Denise Macik, Manager of Strategic HR Advisory Services for G&A Partners, quotes a Harvard Business School article that defines bad hygiene jobs as those that are “demanding, low paid, and provide few prospects for advancement.”

The mass exodus from the healthcare industry didn’t start with the global COVID-19 pandemic, but it certainly accelerated because of it. Employers need to take a step back and carefully evaluate their benefits and incentives programs to ensure they meet current demands.

When Sid Backstrom joined G-Con Manufacturing in College Station, the prefabricated pod manufacturer of mobile cleanrooms had only eight employees. As the company grew, so did the cost for benefits. That’s when Backstrom discovered G&A Partners.

In its first year in business, Moderno Porcelain Works, a large-format porcelain slab provider, fabricator, and installer, grew from one employee to 40 employees, with offices in Houston and Miami. Getting ramped up so quickly meant there was a mountain of work to do and too few people to do it.

Put in place to protect individuals’ privacy and ensure data doesn’t fall into the wrong hands, HIPAA can be challenging to understand and to enforce. Yet it is critical that healthcare organizations do their due diligence to ensure their employees and practices are above reproach.

Your sales team works hard to provide a smooth customer journey. The journey can go a lot smoother if a contract lifecycle management (CLM) tool is used to accelerate the approval process.

When it comes to automatic renewal clauses in contracts, complacency can be the quickest route to financial loss. A significant amount of diligence is required to ensure no deadlines are missed in the contract review process.

The cornerstone of success for every business is trust. Without it, an organization can become vulnerable to a host of code violations and malfeasance. Most businesses rely on the three P’s to develop and hone the best practices that will help them earn trust: people, policies and procedures.

ExxonMobil celebrates 110 years of success, community service and civic pride in Baton Rouge, La.

This ghost-written column for Halliburton's vice president of HSE and Service Quality announces the company's external Safety Moment campaign and calls for employee contribution.

I managed this marketing project for my clients in Well Abandonment from concept to completed brochure. In addition to project management, I wrote 75% of the copy, edited excerpt submissions, helped to arrange the content so it told the story we wanted to tell, and proofed the final layouts.

An operator with a deepwater field development project in the Gulf of Mexico’s challenging Lower Tertiary Basin chose BHGE's multizone single-trip (MST) sand control completion system to improve its economics and maximize production in each of its six wells. The results were game changing.

The BHGE MASTODON hydraulic pulling tool enabled a North Sea operator to free a stuck fish in just minutes, significantly reducing the risks at surface and ensuring no damage to the rig.

A customer in the Gulf of Mexico was having trouble recompleting the upper zone of one of its wells after a running tool failed to retrieve a 9⅞-in. gravel-pack packer. Faced with costly workover options, the customer turned to Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), for the most efficient solution.

Land & Natural Resources schedules exploratory test near Alabama/Mississippi state line.

The sum of high bids at the December 9 Louisiana lease sale significantly exceeded those of the October and November sales combined, garnering $482,109.50 from the sale of seven tracts.

Devon Energy completes horizontal Wolfcamp/Cline shale well in West Texas that extends field production nearly two miles to the southwest.

Shell uses predictive analytics through exception-based surveillance (EBS) to produce oil remotely as part of its Mars B development project in the Gulf of Mexico.

Pilot project in Oman reduces need for natural gas in thermal enhanced oil recovery.

‘Simple’ solution offers safe, green alternative to conventional biocides.

The epicenter of the U.S. oil boom, Texas needs to be preserved and well-tended by those who reap its rewards.

New dual-purpose substrate and proppant said to offer operators ‘pure flow assurance protection.’

System reduces pumpjack strokes while maintaining production rate and providing a ‘zero-waste solution.’

The Permian Basin offers great rewards for those that take time to seek the sweetest spots for pads and the most efficient methods for fracking.

Ayata CEO explains how harnessing big data can predict the future.

Growth in Permian and other U.S. shales will drive need for export to world markets, Pioneer CEO says.

Company renews focus on safety as it explores and reboots Gulf of Mexico investments.

As the recession lingered, stocks continued to depreciate, leaving frauds exposed. During this time, certified fraud examiners were in high demand, yet many were also losing jobs in public companies. This article explains and offers job-search advice from industry recruiters.

Four companies are profiled to demonstrate the best practices performed by their payroll departments that earned them the American Payroll Association's annual Prism Awards.

A horrific hurricane season left many companies located on the Gulf Coast scrambling to find, and pay, their affected employees. For those companies’ payroll departments it was time to sink or swim … They chose to swim.