What Our Clients are Saying…
“Tracy’s communications model is strategic and forces one to think through not only the communications plan but the underlying logic of the actions being taken in order to drive organizational alignment and understanding.”
Donald C. Devine
CEO
American Standard Brands
“It has been my pleasure to work with Tracy on a wide range of projects. She provided support for my organization during multiple fast-paced projects that had global reach – and she delivered. She also provided suburb counsel and guidance as we developed our communications strategy to support our long-range plan – again, she delivered. What most impressed me about Tracy is that our leadership team viewed Tracy as a business partner and not just another consultant.”
J. Craig Mundy
Vice President, Human Resources & Communications
Ingersoll Rand - Climate Solutions
"Tracy and her partner, Andy Opila, did a tremendous job for us at ARAMARK Refreshment Services. We had a number of communication objectives to solve for in our organization: the adoption of a shared vision, the alignment of our strategy - having our mission, objectives and established priorities known and bought into by all 2200 employees, and to enable our distributed business model to act in an integrated manner with the common values of market focus, interdependence, employee centric, risk-taking, adaptability and personal accountability. Tracy and Andy went to the field and met with all levels of our team to develop a customized and very effective communications platform. One of the results of their efforts was our first-ever company wide conference call in which I directly answered 17 questions from the field. It was clear to based on this and other initiatives, we were moving everyone to be ‘on the same page.’ Employee engagement and other metrics were improving even though we had reduced our workforce by 20%. I recommend Tracy and Andy without reservation."
Robert W. Wilson
Former President
Refreshment Services Group, North America at ARAMARK Corporation
“Tracy is a first-class professional who understands the power of customer service and effective communications. She is a class act. Her dedication to her clients, firm, and to the Council of Communication Management (CCM), is admired. Tracy is a tremendous leader with a passion for helping others.”
Mark Sullivan
Former President, IP Foundation
Senior Communications Manager for Supply Chain and Community Relations, International Paper
Past President, CCM
“I have repeatedly relied upon Tracy for her expertise. She is among the best when it comes to strategic communications planning. Tracy has helped me with brand engagement initiatives and corporate restructuring issues and has consistently melded very well with the teams involved in these initiatives. Tracy is a tremendous bridge builder and works very well with corporate executives, ad agencies, and staff. She builds trust, instills confidence and brings an incredible work ethic with her.”
Bill Furtkevic
Vice President – Marketing
Party City Corporation
"When I have a real challenge on my hands... or when I need someone brilliant to help me think through an issue... or even validate my own thinking, I always call Tracy Benson Kirker. She consistently delivers for me in a big way and I am never disappointed."
Wendy Kouba
Vice President, Organizational Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility
Wyeth
“Change and employee communications experts are a rare commodity - especially those that add consistent value and top strategic counsel. Tracy exceeds these attributes and serves as a valuable business partner. It's a pleasure working with her on critical communications initiatives and there's no doubt that our business is better for having Tracy involved.”
Perri Richman
Vice President, Communications
Trane, a business of Ingersoll Rand
“Tracy is a real pro! Talented both strategically and tactically, she made a significant positive impact for us time and time again. I heartily recommend her.”
Shelly London
Former Vice President and Chief Communications Officer
American Standard Companies/Trane
"Tracy, I wanted to thank you again for coming to the rescue to help our team during the recent plant shut-down notification. Your team’s ability to assess the situation, develop a quick communication plan, get buy-in from all the key constituents and help us navigate through the execution proved to be invaluable. Even though there is nothing pleasant about what we had to do, having a solid communication plan that allowed us to do the right thing for our people was worth more than you can imagine.”
Ken Damato
Chief Operating Officer
The Tyden Group
“I appreciate the way you and Andy worked with us on this project and your services were certainly a value-add to the process. This help personally made my job much easier and provided a broad-based professional service well beyond our internal capabilities. All that, and we avoided many pitfalls along the way.”
VP, Global Operations
"In Ethicon, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson), we have utilized the services of On the Same Page for multiple business meetings focused on strategic exercises. The planning of these meetings has required involvement with multiple disciplinary functional groups, in and outside of the company, to include key customer interfaces. All have been executed very professionally with some great results in terms of strategic direction, projects and execution. The support to take our teams to be ‘On the Same Page’ has been great!"
Rey Leon
VP, Worldwide Quality Operations
Ethicon
