Gretchen Weis

Background

About Gretchen Weis

Currently in my final year of seminary on the path towards becoming a fellowshipped, ordained Unitarian Universalist minister. Am in my final year of ministerial internship at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington in Arlington, VA. Will graduate from Meadville Lombard Theological School in May 2013, and am scheduled to go before the Unitarian Universalist Association's Ministerial Fellowship Committee in September 2013, where it is hoped I will be given the final approval and authorization to become ordained and go into search to find a church looking for a minister. Senior public relations counsel with more than 25 years of experience with direct responsibilities for planning and implementing communications activities to achieve specific business goals. Experience includes managing multi-million dollar budgets and teams of people to accomplish desired results. Accredited by the Public Relations Society of America. Functional experience includes: naming and launching new companies, business-to-business branding and marketing campaigns, mergers and acquisitions, media relations, crisis communication, reputation and issues management, employee communication, writing and producing analyst presentations and annual reports, executive speechwriting, product promotion campaigns, advertising, community relations, writing and producing sales and marketing materials, Web content, trade show strategy and more. Specialties: Extensive experience in the upstream oil and gas industry, the midstream sector, downstream petrochemicals, mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas industry, onsite crisis management for well blow-outs, chemical and environmental incidents, issues management around litigation, as well as experience in the health care industry.