Deb Krier

Senior LinkedIn Strategist

For more than 10 years, Deb has worked with professionals to optimize their use of LinkedIn. As the founder of Wise Women Communications, a full-service marketing agency, she sees LinkedIn as a vital marketing tool for professionals at any level.

Throughout her career, Deb has worked with corporations and nonprofit organizations developing and maximizing their marketing and public relations efforts. However, senior executives often don’t see themselves as something that needs to be marketed.

Deb developed “LinkedIn for C-Suite” to provide the assistance busy executives require. By spending a minimal amount of time, professionals work with our strategists to create and optimize their LinkedIn Profiles.

With more than 25 years of experience, Deb has a Master’s Degree in Marketing as well as a Master’s Degree in Communication Management. She has the experience and knowledge to help busy executives make an impact with their LinkedIn Profiles.

Matt Brennan

LinkedIn Strategist

Matt Brennan is a Chicago-area copywriter, author, and freelance journalist with more than two decades of professional experience. He has worked with everyone from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies in providing website content, blogs, and other marketing materials. Matt specializes in translating corporate jargon into messages that resonate with customers and clients.

His work has been published in ProBlogger, the Huffington Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, and other regional newspapers and magazines. Matt is the author of Write Right-Sell Now and The Virus and Us.

Billie Jeanne Fyfe

LinkedIn Strategist

Billie Jeanne Fyfe has been telling (and selling) riveting stories for a good part of her life. Her love of a well-spun yarn began early, when in third grade she proudly wrote and presented a book report titled Lirpa Loof (April Fool spelled backward). Through the years, serving primarily as a marketing copywriter, across a spectrum of B2B/B2C industries and audiences, Jeanne has told the tale that sold a plethora of products and services. She attributes her ability to tap into the compelling heart of the matter to all the amazing women and men she’s met, and whose unique life stories she’s been privileged to observe and recount along the way …

Kate Schwab

LinkedIn Strategist

Kate is a hybrid marketing and business development strategist with 15 years’ experience in agency and corporate settings, as well as tenure with global leadership organizations. Post-pandemic, she is now focused on the wellness and conscious beauty movement. As a brand ambassador for start-up Midori, her focus is centered on developing influencer partnerships to align with their mission to educate consumers on ingredient safety for themselves, their families, and the planet.

Additionally, she’s served clients across the hospitality, technology, financial services, pharma, energy, retail, and automotive categories. It’s apparent she wears her badge as an Enneagram type seven, known as “the enthusiast,” with pride. Her relentless curiosity for new information and experiences plays into her storytelling and gift for creating trusting environments during interviews.

One of her proudest career accomplishments includes receiving the McKinsey business strategy course certificate. Other passions are spending time with family, doing yoga, and cuddling her cavapoo, Rubiks.