MCFARLAND PR & PUBLIC AFFAIRS - Key Persons

Stephanie is senior issue-management consultant and president of McFarland PR & Public Affairs, Inc., with nearly 30 years of deep public-relations expertise honed in pressure-intense private and public organizations. Stephanie has served in public-relations capacities and leadership roles with Indianapolis Power & Light Co., Eli Lilly, Sallie Mae, the Indiana Department of Revenue, and various state government agencies. She has led a number of high-profile public-relations/outreach initiatives, and intensively consulted on many more - such as the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP 2.0), the Indiana Toll Road bankruptcy filing, the Indiana State Fair rigging collapse, and the original Indiana Tax Amnesty program. Stephanie has received more than a dozen awards for the outcomes of her work, and commendations from state and industry leaders. She is an accredited public-relations professional, author, former university instructor, and certified crisis-communication professional. She holds her master-of-science degree in communication management from Syracuse University in New York, her accreditation in public relations through the Public Relations Society of America, and has completed continuing education in public-dispute management with Harvard University and in incident crisis-communication management with the National Safety Transportation Board.