Judy Linklater
Advertising & PR, Creative Consultant

Early in her career, Judy Linklater wrote copy during the day for J. Walter Thompson/Chicago [now JWT].  For lunch, she’d jump into a cab and race over to a photographer’s studio to pose for newspaper and magazine ads. [Miss Zonolite, anyone?] At night [okay, Monday nights] she began performing as part of Second City’s Touring Company with Harold Ramis and Brian Doyle Murray. On weekends she wrote articles on the single life for local magazines.

After five years, she interrupted her myriad careers to marry and have two daughters, one who now has her master’s and teaches high school English in Chicago, the other who received a coveted senate appointment to the Air Force Academy, but chose Notre Dame, and now lives and works in London with her husband.

A decade later, Judy returned to advertising as a single parent, starting over again as a copywriter at JWT, spending a year at Foote, Cone & Belding, then returning for a third time to JWT, becoming a VP creative director with responsibilities on Hyatt Resorts, Kellogg’s cereals, Kraft, Quaker Oats, and SC Johnson.

In a parallel universe, she began offering pro bono pr and creating events for non-profits, beginning with publicity for the US Women’s Olympic Volleyball Team as well as launching the first North Shore Doll House & Miniature Room Show, which enjoyed a twenty-year run.

In 1989 she left JWT to become a consultant, offering a variety of creative services over the last twenty years, from wedding photography to inventing new products [Bananaramas, a best new product introduction], to writing and producing award winning ads, commercials and celebrity videos to developing consumer promotions.

Meanwhile, she also continued her pr for non-profits, most notably creating Light Up the Lakefront, which began in 1995 and continues every October 1^st with 3000 luminaries on Oak Street Beach in Chicago, to honor the women who die each year from domestic violence.

Judy attended Duke University for two years, where she was tapped for Order of the Chair. She graduated with a bachelor’s in English from Northwestern University, writing for Waa Mu and winning two May Sing competitions.  She has been a state champion bowler, president of two different tennis associations, a US Volleyball Assn. regional referee, Chicago Women’s MVP at the Advertising World Series in San Diego, captain of her platform tennis team, a new member of a women’s barbershop harmony chorus, and the grateful recipient of two new hips.

In her spare time, she sleeps.

Doug Dome
President & CEO, Dome Consulting

Doug Dome is an award-winning creative leader and marketing communications expert. He is a sought-after speaker on creativity, integration, organizational culture, and marketplace trends. With 27 years of integrated marketing communications experience, Doug is a successful entrepreneur and business manager that founded and managed two nationally recognized public relations agencies. PR News named Doug its “PR Agency Professional of the Year” and “PR Innovator of the Year” and The American Business Awards named him its Stevie Award winner for “Most Creative Person.”

As president of Dome Consulting, Doug serves as a management, marketing and communications consultant for numerous national brand icons and marketing agencies specializing in developing fully-integrated marketing communications programs that bridge traditional offline marketing strategies with digital media and emerging technologies.  Previously, he was chief creative officer and managing principal of Carmichael Lynch Spong (CLS), where he managed many of the agency’s client account teams and regional offices, and developed key practice areas including online/digital marketing, experiential marketing, lifestyle marketing (marketing to women, multicultural, mature adults and youth), and GLBT marketing.

Prior to CLS, Doug was president of Dome HK, a Chicago-based boutique marketing communications agency, and U.S. creative director of Hill and Knowlton.  Dome HK was created in 2004 when Hill & Knowlton acquired Dome Communications, the agency Doug founded in 1997.  Under Doug’s leadership, The Holmes Report named Dome Communications the ‘Best Public Relations Firm to Work for in America” and “Creative Agency of the Year.” PR Week also named Dome Communications a finalist for “Mid-Sized Agency of the Year.”  While at Dome HK and Dome Communications, Doug led his team in winning more than 200 industry awards.

Before Dome Communications, Doug served as managing director of public relations and events for the Impact Communications Group, a subsidiary of Foote, Cone & Belding Chicago.  He joined FCB as vice president of communications, where he was responsible for the agency’s overall communications program and the national communications programs of FCB clients.  Before FCB, Doug served as manager of public relations for the Central Division of MCI Telecommunications Corporation. He also served as the opening director of public relations and promotions for the Fairmont Hotel-Chicago. Doug started his career in communications with Marshall Field’s Department Store, where he rose to the position of corporate manager of special events.

Doug earned a Master of Management degree in Marketing and International Business from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration and History from Alma College, Alma, Michigan. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of Integrated Marketing Communications at the University of Chicago Graham School, and is a member of the PRSA’s Counselor Academy and the Economic Club of Chicago.

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