Kristin Morris
Kristin (Kristi) Morris is the founder and president of Morris Public Relations, LLC. She is a strategic public relations, marketing and communications expert based in Columbus, Ohio, and works with organizations around the country. With more than 25 years of corporate communications experience, Morris specializes in innovative marketing and communications for a variety of industries.
By emphasizing creativity as well as strategy, Morris and her team assist clients with an array of public relations, marketing and communications needs. From designing and implementing long-term strategic planning to researching, developing and writing web content, the team specializes in a full spectrum of services, including: marketing communications, branding and imaging campaigns, business-to-business strategies, organizational communications, cause-related marketing, spokesperson training, crisis communications and more.
Prior to opening Morris Public Relations, her professional background included: senior marketing executive for a 500-bed, full-service hospital in central Ohio; award-winning strategic planning operative for city government economic development marketing; marketing and public relations strategist for a national housing and health care services organization, and senior advertising/public relations executive for an international industrial computing and technology corporation. Additional practitioner experience includes: client account representation throughout the Great Lakes states for a top U.S. advertising and public relations agency; and public relations strategist for a national medical products corporation.
Honors and affiliations include: Gold rating in the Ohio Hospital Association’s Reach for the Stars Competition for strategic public relations planning; Award of Excellence for client economic development marketing plan, City-County Communications & Marketing Association; National Mature Media Award for a client corporate brochure; and grassroots planning for OHA-approved Media Guidelines for all Ohio hospitals. Other memberships and affiliations include: Public Relations Society of America; member, International Martial Arts Federation; instructor member, World Taekwondo Masters Association (status: U.S. Taekwondo Union-certified 4th degree Black Belt; Kukkiwon-certified 3rd-degree Black Belt; World Martial Arts Association-certified 1st degree Black Belt); self-defense training; and competitive bodybuilding.
Mary Beasecker
Mary Beasecker has nearly 30 years of corporate communications and consulting experience. She works closely with each client to ensure that projects are developed and implemented carefully and properly, and that the clients’ objectives are met and surpassed.
Beasecker has directed award-winning campaigns for myriad projects, including public health initiatives, regulatory issues, product launches, event marketing, community-building initiatives, and product safety, among others.
After spending several years in hospital, insurance and technical marketing executive positions, Beasecker struck out on her own, building a solid and well-respected reputation among a vast client portfolio, which has included several hospitals, an internationally recognized cancer hospital and research institute, a large capital city health care provider, and the YMCA of Central Ohio, among others. She is also active in PRSA and the Advertising Federation of Columbus.
For Morris Public Relations, Beasecker is a lead web content strategist, researcher and writer, specializing in cancer services and health care.
Jonathan Polsdorfer
Jonathan Polsdorfer is a highly skilled producer, writer, videographer and Emmy-nominated editor with more than 10 years experience in broadcast media, developing his craft for visual storytelling. His multi-faceted background includes production, marketing/promotions, digital services and an exceptional eye for photography.
Over the years, Jonathan has helmed myriad client-focused projects ranging from one-time television commercial productions to hour-long broadcast specials and full-fledged weekly campaigns spanning multiple years.
Jonathan is an artistic thought leader who is always looking to innovate. His creative pride and joy is That Ohio Vibe, a unique broadcast storytelling platform that he conceptualized, designed, developed and cultivated with weekly content.
In addition to his vast experience producing creative and effective video campaigns, Jonathan served three years (two of which in the role of Facilitator) on an internal committee designed to analyze and improve the culture at WBNS-10TV. While part of this Culture Committee, he was instrumental in setting S.M.A.R.T. goals, conducting station-wide surveys and implementing new workplace procedures to improve efficiencies in communication, employee recognition and trust.
He and his wife, Rebecca, live in Delaware, Ohio, with their one-year-old son, Samuel. When he isn’t innovating creative story platforms or creating engaging visual content, you can probably find him on a basketball court or renovating his home.
For Morris Public Relations, Polsdorfer is a creative services director, digital and broadcast content producer, photographer, and as Jonathan puts it, “anything MPR and the clients need.”
Darrell Ward
Darrell E. Ward is a highly experienced science writer who believes in crafting strongly researched, accurate content that is composed with compassion and sensitivity. Through his informative writing, he strives to help individuals better understand the science behind the causes and treatment of diseases.
His efforts to equip people with information and help meet a critical need have extended into the non-profit realm. Ward is co-founder of Better Healthcare for Africa, which he helped create after spending two months each in Botswana, Swaziland and Zimbabwe to learn how these countries were coping with the AIDS epidemic at the grassroots level.
During his trip, he gained admiration for the Zimbabwean physicians and their work at St. Albert’s Mission Hospital in rural northern Zimbabwe. Before leaving, he promised to continue to help even after returning home.
After receiving a donation in 2008, he co-founded BHA the following year and has since focused on cervical cancer prevention through screening and early treatment, cancer education, hospital water-system improvements, maternal health improvements and helping the hospital meet other critical needs.
In his spare time, Ward enjoys book art, which involves making expressive handmade books that imaginatively combine text, images, color and paper using different types of folded or sewn bindings.
For Morris Public Relations, Ward is an expert science researcher and writer.