Location: Newnan

COVID-19, Quarantine, Protests, High Unemployment . . . How do we market our businesses in the midst of a recession and so much uncertainty? Ellie White-Stevens, Creative Director at Dirt1x, will give some top tips for crisis communication, how to stay relevant without sounding tone-deaf, and some ideas for fearlessly growing business.

  Ellie White-Stevens, Creative Director and Marketing Guru, has over sixteen years experience in advertising, sales, marketing and corporate communications. Ellie’s special sauce is the ability to think both analytically and creatively at the same time—which gives her clients the best possible marketing outcomes. A Calvin graduate in communications, Ellie worked with non-profits, healthcare and the media on marketing, prior to opening her own agency in 2009. She has helped hundreds of clients with marketing, advertising and public relations campaigns. Her favorite thing to do is to enact effective strategies with her Sustainable Marketing System clients.  Ellie was trained to sing opera, and now sings with the Masterworks Chorale. She lives in between Newnan and Peachtree City in rural Coweta County, Georgia with her stellar-smart sons and her guitar-wielding husband Matt.