Senior Consultant

Katie has come to her role as a consultant at Brandtrust via a somewhat peripatetic path. She studied international management and minored in political science, then trained for a career as an actress. During her acting years, Katie paid the bills with a variety of day jobs, including stints with the Easter Seals and the YWCA, and as a nanny, bartender and as a tour guide in a living history museum. As a result, she has mastered some incredibly romantic and esoteric skills like making candles and spinning wool!

Today, she harnesses both academic training and life experience to bring insight to her analysis of client problems. She works closely with our founder and CEO, Daryl Travis, and claims that being able to boss him around is her greatest job perk. In addition, she says that working at Brandtrust is rewarding because, “Brandtrust helps companies grow into better organizations. Clients walk away from Brandtrust projects with a focus on what's important: how to keep their promises and make consumers and employees feel good. How can you argue with that?”

In her spare time, Katie does freelance voiceover work and teaches with Barrel of Monkeys, a theater group that takes Chicago Public School students' stories and adapts them into short plays and songs that they perform throughout the city.