Winly Communications

Jeanne Ouellette

Principal

Founder and principal of Winly Communications, Jeanne Ouellette is a senior communications strategies with more than 25 years of experience in corporate communications and issues management.

Jeanne has developed strategic communications programs for market leaders in most major industry segments, including Yahoo!, Gap, Inc., Charles Schwab & Co., Levi Strauss & Co., Farmer's Insurance, Anheuser-Busch, JP Morgan, Ronald Reagan Foundation & Presidential Library, Blue Cross of California and Kinko's, among many others. Her expertise spans the broad spectrum of internal and external communications disciplines, including strategic planning, brand positioning, crisis and issues management, rapid response systems, media relations, internal communications and writing.

She is also one of the credit union industry's leading communications professionals, working with dozens of credit unions in developing a wide range of communications campaigns and materials along with issues and crisis management, merger support, internal communications, media training, presentation development, media outreach and many other services.

Prior to founding Winly Communications, Jeanne spent 10 years with the Los Angeles office of Fleishman-Hillard Inc., a leading global communications firm. When she left the firm, she was a Senior Vice President managing the West Coast Corporate Relations and Crisis Communications Division as well as directing the West Coast Internal Communications Practice Group. Her programs have won awards from the Publicity Club of Los Angeles, Public Relations Society of America and Creativity in Public Relations Awards. A fifth generation Californian, Jeanne earned her degree from University of Southern California. She lives with her two children, along with many assorted animals, in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles.