Education
Santa Clara University
BA, Theatre and Dance 1977-01-01 - 1981-01-01Duchesne Academy
High School, 1973-01-01 - 1977-01-01Work Experience
Fordham University
Current
Fordham University
Connors
Current
Connors
Self Employed
Current
Self Employed
Connors Communications
1984-08-01 - 2011-08-01
Connors Communications
Skills
Summary
Connie Connors is a leader in strategic marketing communications as well as media/speaker coaching. For more than 25 years, she has worked with both startup and Fortune 500 consumer technology, media and education companies in public relations and marketing, business planning and product development, investor relations and growth strategies as well as overall branding. She is a futurist and positioning expert in new media public relations having been instrumental in the launch of many brands such as Amazon, Priceline, Lending Tree, RealNetworks, Overture, 24/7 and Vonage as well as helped many well-known brands transform their businesses online or into other product lines: Disney, Nordstrom, National Geographic, NYTimes.com, Sega Toys, Smithsonian Education portal, Sony WebTV and others. Connie built her firm, Connors Communications, from 1984 through 2008, at which time the firm transitioned to search optimization and ultimately became an Internet company, HitTail, which was sold in 2011. Based on a new generation of Intel processors at the time, the Company was subsequently sold again and became obsolete with cloud-based services. Connors Communications was highly regarded, both domestically and internationally, as the top public relations firm specializing in consumer technology and new media. Specialties: Strategic corporate communications; positioning and messaging; writing, media coaching, speaker training, team building, fundraising. For fun and sometimes business: dancing, designing flowers, solo travel/journeys, baking, throwing a great party.