Kathleen Henson
President and Chief Executive Officer

For nearly two decades, Kathleen Henson has enjoyed a diverse career in public relations and marketing, working with some of the country's most recognizable companies and brands.

Henson is a former agency senior VP at the nation's leading independent public relations firm and for the past nine years has grown Henson Consulting into a much sought-after public relations consulting practice. Her firm - known for its strategic counsel, unparalleled creativity and tangible results - offers a broad range of consumer marketing and corporate communications support to a wide variety of international, national and Midwest-based clients. Over the years, the firm has worked with blue chip clients including Kraft Foods, Sears, Roebuck and Co., Swift & Company, Lands' End, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Brown Forman Beverages, Hard Rock Hotel Chicago, Chicago Title Insurance Company, the Allstate Foundation and the U.S. pistachio industry, among many others.

Leading a smart team of creative public relations and marketing professionals (most formerly employed at some of the world's biggest PR firms and major media newsrooms), Henson's agency has recently secured high-profile media placements for clients in a variety of the world's most recognizable outlets including: TIME Magazine, Associated Press, Today Show, Chicago Tribune, NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, The Times (UK), CNN International, Business Week, E! News, Us Weekly, People and EXTRA.

Henson is known throughout the industry for her unbridled creativity, extensive network of media and Hollywood contacts and long history of running award-winning PR and marketing campaigns. She knows a thing or two about multi-tasking, too, as the mother of five children ages 10 and under.