Once a caddy at The Beverly Country Club, Sheila is the Managing Director of Edelman's corporate brand and reputation practice in Chicago. She leads a team of over 50 specialists across Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Austin. She oversees a dynamic portfolio of clients centered on delivering solutions that promote, protect and evolve their corporate brand; while earning trust and engagement across a multistakeholder universe. Her over 20 years of communications background encompasses corporate reputation management, transformation advisory, media relations, executive positioning, and corporate storytelling. She has diverse industry experience representing clients in both the public and private sectors including industrials, financial services, retail and food and beverage. She has led C-level advisory, thought leadership and corporate brand programs for clients across diverse industries and the Fortune 500. She sits on the Board of Trustees for the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. Before joining Edelman, she worked for Chicago-based public affairs firm Jasculca/Terman & Associates (JT). Her political- event work with JT, includes the Clinton Presidential Library Opening, the American Democracy Institute Chicago and Philadelphia Summits and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s campaign launch.