Cynthia Rohde is an award-winning public relations veteran with a career-long focus in consumer brands, corporate, financial and business-to-business communication.  She has developed and implemented a broad range of internal and external communications programs - from brand building through reputation recovery – for clients like McDonald’s, Abbott, Abbvie, Nicor Gas, Russell Stover and La-Z-Boy. A skilled integrated-communications strategist, media trainer and storyteller, Cynthia works closely with clients to craft high-impact messaging that tells their stories in an engaging and persuasive way through paid, earned, shared and owned media.

Cynthia holds a bachelor of science degree in corporate communication from Ithaca College and a master of communication and information studies degree from Rutgers University.  She has served on the Board and marketing committee of Youth Guidance, a Chicago-based social services non-profit organization.