Margo Dennis

Skills

PowerPoint Photoshop Event Planning Public Speaking Media Relations InDesign Social Media Communications Team Leadership Customer Service Marketing Strategy Management Advertising Sales Social Media Brand Management Public Relations Event Management Marketing Leadership Strategic Planning Microsoft Office Strategic Communications Press Releases Microsoft Word Social Media Marketing Fundraising Public Affairs Government Relations Corporate Communications Crisis Communications Internal Communications Stakeholder Engagement Employee Commitment Project Management Succession Planning Production Planning

About

I connect organizations to the people they serve — through strategic communications, government relations, and public affairs. I'm currently a Sr. Communications Specialist at Entergy, leading internal communications for a 1,500-person operations and field workforce across the Gulf South — including a campaign that drove a 45% increase in intranet engagement, and crisis/storm-response communications reaching the full workforce within 24 hours during storm outage events. Before that, as Director of Government Affairs for The Woodlands Area Chamber of Commerce, I built the Chamber's advocacy program from the ground up, managing a $1.5M budget and growing our Economic Outlook Conference — featuring Fortune 500 CEOs — to 300 attendees and 7 high-profile speakers. Since 2011, I've also run McZeal Project PR, my own communications and event marketing firm, delivering roughly 5 major campaigns a year — from entertainment PR (including the debut stage play "Even a Good Man is Tempted," starring Shirley Murdock and other TV/film actors) to corporate branding for oil and gas clients to my own author platform for "H.E.R.: Healed, Elevated and Restored." MPA in Government and Policy (Grand Canyon University); BA in Public Relations (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) — a combination that lets me operate at the intersection of communications, marketing, and policy.