| IABC Fellow Award is the highest honor our association can bestow on an individual. It is our way of acknowledging outstanding leadership, professional accomplishment and service to IABC and the profession.
Fellow selection criteria include all of the following: Contribution to the organizational communication field and profession; career achievement; authorship, speaking and lecturing; contributions to IABC; and other professional recognition such as community activities and other business-related activities.
 Angela Sinickas, ABC, is the president of Sinickas Communications, Inc., an international consulting firm dedicated to helping corporations achieve business results through focused research and practical solutions.
A pioneer in the field of organizational communication measurement, Sinickas has been measuring the effectiveness of communication since 1981. Her prolific publications (more than 100) and speaking engagements in 24 countries have made her name synonymous with measurement of organizational communication. She is the author of the manual How to Measure Your Communication Programs, a regular columnist for the magazine Strategic Communication Management and on the editorial boards of two professional journals.
She has more than 35 audio CDs that provide training on measurement. She has also developed a range of Communication Audit and Planning Starter Kits℠ that provide tools on CD-ROM for communicators to conduct their own focus groups, surveys, SWOT analysis, communication vehicle inventories and other assessments—as well as to develop communication plans focused on changing behaviors.
An IABC member since 1979, Sinickas has served on the IABC Gold Quill Blue Ribbon Panel, as an Accreditation exam proctor, as IABC Think Tank Chairperson, on the IABC Research Foundation board of directors, on the IABC Pacific Region conference organizing committee and as the IABC/Chicago chapter Speakers’ Bureau Committee Chair.
Her work has been recognized with 15 IABC Gold Quill Awards, including two for her web site. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in journalism in 1975.
Sinickas will be recognized at IABC’s International Conference in New York City on 22 June 2008. The nomination process for 2009 will open in October 2008. |
