Emilie
Schulze

Emilie Schulze is a communications specialist providing stakeholder engagement and brand awareness across a variety of sectors. She provides strategic communications counsel, helping clients meaningfully connect with and engage critical audiences while protecting and enhancing their reputation. During her time at APCO, Emilie has helped raise awareness of client programs through partnerships, proactive campaigns and creative activations, and helped develop clients’ thought leadership platforms and brand narratives. As a director in APCO’s Chicago office, she currently leads our work with a major non-profit association executing a consumer-awareness and stakeholder engagement campaign centered around the industry’s sustainability and recruitment efforts. Additionally, Emilie supports issues management and proactive reputation building for a major U.S. airline.

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Emilie also partners with clients developing ESG reports and sustainability programs, recently supporting another major association in launching their signature Carbon Neutrality Roadmap and ensuing communications campaign, focused on stakeholder engagement, and developing a strategy for Chicago’s Morton Arboretum to secure corporate funding for its Chicago Region Trees Initiative. She leads day-to-day external communications and executive positioning for a major transportation company, and recently supported the company in developing their first SASB report and supporting narrative.

Previously, Emilie supported consumer-facing branding and awareness efforts for a major global tire producer, including executing new product launches, planning and supporting the company’s presence at major industry events, and leveraging trade and consumer earned media. She also led the media relations efforts for health tech startup KenSci, navigating stakeholder and media relations around major announcements.

Prior to joining the APCO team, Emilie served as an account supervisor at G&S Business Communications, leading the day-to-day strategy for several brands of a major agriculture client. Before joining the agency world, Emilie worked for a tech startup focusing on collaboration in the cloud. She has experience in ESG-reporting, stakeholder engagement, event planning, earned and social media, and overall campaign management. Emilie is passionate about building new relationships and delivering creative solutions.

Additionally, Emilie spent two years teaching English in South Korea and China. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in History, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.