Kate Stuard
Business Development Manager
With over a decade of experience in public relations, Kate has spent her career working with clients of all shapes and sizes. As a PR manager at Dittoe PR, Kate worked with Stericycle, USA Football, Seven Corners and Herff Jones to ensure they stayed top-of-mind with the media. Kate has also worked in-house as the Communications Director for the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.
Today, Kate works closely with the vice president of business development to identify and secure new business for the firm. She’s passionate about public relations strategy and loves connecting new clients with the account team that can help them achieve their communications goals. When she’s not working, Kate can be found reading, writing, running and wrangling her two toddlers.
Industry Articles
How PR Has Shifted Since COVID-19
Public relations is a profession that is built upon communication and the skills needed to cultivate favorable public images for organizations and/or individuals. For our staff at Dittoe PR, it’s been interesting to observe how our day-to-day lives have shifted – everything from where we’re working, to what our clients need.
Agency vs. In-house: Sports PR
With both of my parents and older brother all working in sports public relations in some capacity, I dreamt of following in their steps and joining “the family business.” Focused on attaining that goal, I hadn’t opened myself to other aspects of the profession nor...
Switching from journalism to PR: The surprises, struggles and wins
When declaring a major in college, it is easy to get overwhelmed with all of the different routes that a student interested in media could take. Is it advertising? Is it news writing and editing? How about marketing? Public relations? Broadcast journalism? As an...
