Awards 
2019 Telly Award
— Lee Company
2012 Interactive Media Awards
— Best in Class, Consulting Category for thepertgroup.com
2011 Creative Illuminator of The Year
— Morningstar Communications
2006 Telly Award
— Creating Possibilities, Yellow and ProActive Inc.
2006 PRSA Silver — Marketing Campaign, This Is
Big, YRC Worldwide
2006 PRSA Silver — Video, Creating Possibilities,
Yellow and ProActive Inc.
2005 IABC Award of Merit — HNTB Sourcebook, HNTB
and Blades Trozzollo
2005 AR 100— YRC Worldwide Annual Report
2002 PRSA Prism — Electronic Communications, Media
Maven, Blades & Associates
2001 Bronze Omni — Consumer Web site, Farmland
Industries
2001 PRSA Prism — News Kit, uclick, Doonesbury.com
News Kit
2001 PRSA Silver — Media Relations, uclick, Doonesbury.com
relaunch
2001 PRSA Silver — Writing, Commerce Bank, Top
10 Speech
2001 PRSA Silver — News Kit, Hallmark, One in a
Million Mom News Kit
2000 PRSA Silver — Annual Report, The Life and
Times of Federated
2000 Web Marketing Association Award — BladesEdge
Web Site
1999 PRSA Prism — Special Events, The Rib Run
1999 PRSA Silver — Brochure, Shook Hardy &
Bacon Collateral Materials
1999 IABC Bronze Quill — SHB Media Training
1999 IABC Bronze Quill — The Rib Run
1998 PRSA Silver — Internal Communications, SHB,
Media Training
1998 PRSA Silver — Media Relations, SHB, Tax Avoidance
article
1998 PRSA Silver — Writing, SHB, Estate Planning
article
1998 IABC Bronze Quill — Feature Writing
1997 PRSA Prism — Writing, Sprint FonPromotions
1993 CASE Award of Excellence — Writing, Perspectives,
EBS profile
1991 UMKC Public Service Award
1983 STOP Violence Campaign Award
1981 American Women in Radio and TV Civic Award, KC Chapter
Early 1980s, late 1970s — Associated Press news coverage
awards
