Andrea Greenhous, IABC Fellow

Andrea’s life’s purpose is to make the world of work better.

For over 30 years, Andrea has helped organizations improve the employee experience and build workplaces where people thrive. As founder and president of Vision2Voice, an internal communications agency, Andrea and her dedicated team help organizations adopt a strategic approach to employee communications to help them achieve results.

Andrea has played a leading role in initiatives and transformation projects for Fortune 500 technology companies, large government departments, and organizations as diverse as, construction, biotech, finance, and higher education. This has led to a signature approach emphasizing harnessing employee voices and amplifying their insights and ideas.

Andrea builds long-term relationships with Vision2Voice clients who trust her deep insight and practical advice. Andrea has been called a masterful facilitator, a breath of fresh air, inspiring and innovative. Her kids would add a few more things to that list!

Andrea is a storyteller, a PROSCI-certified change leader, and Dare to Lead trained based on the work and research of Brené Brown. She is also a certified Fearless Organization Practitioner and uses the tools and processes developed by Amy C. Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, to build psychological safety in teams. Andrea has been named a top 10 influencer in internal communications and is a frequent guest blogger and speaker at industry events.

Juli Holloway, SCMP, IABC Fellow

Juli Holloway is an Indigenous communications practitioner specializing in professional communication in Indigenous contexts. Throughout her career, Juli has been fortunate to work with First Nations and Indigenous organizations in British Columbia and across Canada to support transformative change for First Nation communities and people through strategic communications and community engagement.

Juli holds a Master of Arts in Professional Communication from Royal Roads University and wrote her thesis on the role of communication in First Nation community decision-making and how communications can serve as a tool to support Indigenous self-determination. Through her research, Juli developed a model for Indigenous community decision-making to help First Nations identify areas to improve communications with their community members. Her thesis earned the Michael Real Award for producing the School of Communication and Culture’s most outstanding research paper in 2021.

Juli is the communications advisor at the Tulo Centre of Indigenous Economics where she leads communications and designs and delivers communications curriculum in university-accredited programs designed to advance Indigenous economic reconciliation. She is also an associate faculty member at Royal Roads University, where she teaches in the MA in Professional Communications program. In 2022, she earned the Outstanding Associate Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence in the MA Programs in 2022 for her innovative pedagogical methods.

Juli is an active contributor to the growing community of Indigenous professional communicators in Canada. She has been a panelist on Indigenous Communications at the Royal Roads University’s Conference on Communications Ethics for four consecutive years. In 2023, Juli co-organized the first-of-its-kind Gathering on Professional Communication in Indigenous Contexts and incorporated a national Indigenous Communications Professionals Association in Canada to support connection among Indigenous communications practitioners and the implementation of communications best practices rooted in Indigenous ways of being and knowing.

Juli is Haida and Kwakwaka'wakw and has been a guest on the traditional lands of the Secwépemc for 17 years. She belongs to the Skidegate Gidins, an eagle clan from the village of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii, and the Taylor (nee Nelson) family originating from Kingcome Inlet, home of one of the four tribes of the Musgamagw Dzawada̱ʼenux̱w.

Theomary Karamanis, PhD, IABC Fellow

Dr. Theomary Karamanis is a multiple award-winning communication professor and consultant with 25 years of global experience. She is currently a full-time Senior Lecturer of Management Communication at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and regularly delivers executive education programs in leadership communication, crisis communication, and strategic communication. She has held several professional leadership positions, including Chair of the GCCC (Global Communication Certification Council); Chair of the IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) Academy; and Chair of the IABC Awards committee.

Her academic background includes a PhD in communication studies, a Master of Arts in mass communication, and a post-graduate certificate in telecommunications –all from Northwestern University, as well as a bachelor's degree in economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business. She also holds professional certifications as a Strategic Communication Management Professional (SCMP), online facilitator, and executive program instructor.

Dr. Karamanis has been actively engaged in various industries (private, non-profit and government) and fields of expertise, including corporate communication, media and PR, higher education administration and teaching, and consulting. She has lived and worked in Canada, Greece, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America.

She is the recipient of 40 professional communication awards, including 12 Platinum MarCom awards, 7 Gold Quill awards, 4 Silver Quill awards and a Comm Prix award. In 2020 she received the Award for Excellence in Communication Consulting by APCC (Association of Professional Communication Consultants) and ABC (Association for Business Communication). She is the author of several books and academic papers on communication, while she also regularly delivers presentations at international conferences and other business forums.

The Fellows Selection Committee accepts nominations through an online application process from mid September through the end of November.

To maintain the prestige of the Fellow Designation, IABC will bestow the designation on no more than five people in any one year.

 

Eligibility criteria for nominees:

• Only members of IABC in good standing* are eligible to be nominated to be IABC Fellows.
• Nominee must have been a member of IABC for at least five years. (The years of membership do not have to be consecutive.)
• Current members of the executive board, the Fellows Selection Committee, and anyone who has served as IABC Chair in the past three years are not eligible.

*Nominee has not been found in violation of IABCs Code of Ethics for Professional Communication.

 

Evaluation criteria:

Awarding of the Fellow designation follows an open call for nominations and an evaluation against specific criteria by the Fellows Selection Committee. The evaluators consider the following areas:

• Impact on the profession
• Career achievement
• Contribution to the body of knowledge
• Contributions to IABC
• Alignment with IABC’s values and ethics

In line with IABC’s approach to diversity, equity and inclusion, the IABC Fellows Selection Committee is committed to actively seeking candidates from a broad range of backgrounds and encourages a diverse nominee pool via the open call process. In addition, DE&I factors are also part of the review and evaluation process.

For more details on the program and how to nominate someone, see the IABC Fellow nomination guide.

Questions? Reach out to us at member_relations@iabc.com.

2024: Andrea Greenhous

2024: Juli Holloway

2024: Theomary Karamanis, SCMP

2023: Ginger Homan, ABC, SCMP

2023: Russell Grossman, ABC, FRSA, FCIPR, FCIM

2022: Zora Artis, GAICD, SCMP

2022: Sue Heuman, ABC, MC

2022: Robin McCasland, SCMP

2021: Jane Mitchell

2021: Stephanie Griffiths, ABC

2021: Caroline Sapriel

2020: Adrian Cropley, OAM, FRSA, SCMP, ABC

2020: Diane Gayeski, Ph.D.

2020: Barbara Gibson, Ph.D., ABC

2020: Rajeev Kumar, Ph.D., ABC

2020: Nerissa (Ritzi) Villarico Ronquillo, APR

2019: Martha Muzychka, ABC, MC

2019: Neil Griffiths, ABC

2018: John Finney

2018: Stacy Wilson, ABC

2018: Todd Hattori, ABC

2017: Cindy Schmeig, ABC, SCMP

2017: Brenda Siler

2017: Lee Hornick

2016: Priya Bates, ABC, MC, SCMP

2016: Alice Brink, ABC

2016: Mary Hills, ABC

2016: Ned Lundquist, ABC

2016: Bish Mukherjee, ABC

2015: Kellie Garrett, MC

2015: John Gerstner, ABC

2015: Amanda Hamilton-Atwell, ABC

2015: Jim Lukaszewski, ABC

2015: Anna Marie Willey, ABC, MC

2014: George McGrath

2014: John Deveney, ABC

2014: Jennifer Wah, ABC, MC

2014: Tamara Gillis, ABC

2014: Mark Schumann, ABC

2013: Lorraine Lennon, ABC

2013: Suzanne Salvo

2013: Elpi Cuna

2013: Mary Ann McCauley, ABC

2012: John Clemons, ABC,

2012: Barbara Puffer, ABC

2011: Paul Sanchez, ABC, APR

2010: Annette Martell, ABC, MC

2010: William Briggs, Ed.D.

2009: Joe Williams

2009: Pixie Malherbe Emslie, ABC

2008: Angela Sinickas, ABC

2007: Connie Eckard, ABC, Ph.D.

2007: Sheri Rosen, ABC

2006: Leticia Narvaez, ABC

2005: Shel Holtz, ABC

2005: Roberta (Bobbie) Resnick, ABC, APR, MC

2004: Tudor Williams, ABC

2003: Anne Forrest

2002: Don Ranly, Ph.D.

2001: Robert Dilenschneider

2000: Ian Hawkins, ABC

1999: Jim Shaffer

1998: Norman Leaper, ABC

1998: Ron E. Martin, ABC

1997: Lester R. Potter, ABC

1996: Brad Whitworth, ABC, SCMP

1995: Sharon Paul, ABC

1994: Jean Cormier, APR

1993: Frederic Halperin, ABC

1992: Christopher Bunting, ABC

1992: Robert Berzok, ABC

1991: David Orman

1991: Albert Wann, ABC, APR

1990: Thomas Ruddell, ABC

1989: Rae Leaper, ABC

1989: Donn Silvis, ABC

1988: Wilma Mathews, ABC

1988: Jerome Blackstone

1987: No award given

1986: Richard Wilmot, APR

1986: Alvie L Smith, APR

1985: Louis C. Williams Jr., ABC, APR

1985: Lynda Stewart, ABC

1984: Roy G. Foltz, ABC, APR

1984: John N Bailey ABC, CAE

1984: Kay M Staib, ABC

1983: No award given

1982: Richard Charlton, ABC, APR

1982: John Aspery, ABC

1981: Phil Douglis, ABC

1980: Dorothy J. Hobbs, ABC

1979: Walter G Anderson, ABC

1978: Roger D’Aprix, ABC

1977: Wally Court, ABC, APR, MC

1977: Downs Matthews, ABC

1976: Lawrence Ragan, ABC

1976: Robert Russman, ABC

1975: Myron Emanuel, ABC

1974: Henry Bachrach, ABC

1973: Patricia Walker O’Neil, ABC

1973: Jacob Wittmer, ABC

1972: James R. Douglas, ABC

1972: Mort Legget, ABC

1971: DeWitt Reddick, ABC

1970: Walter Beach, ABC

1970: George de Mare, ABC

1970: Marg Sammons Newcomb, ABC

1970: Robert Newcomb, ABC