Marketing and corporate communications

ABOUT US

Dixie and Doreen with Lou Thompson, president of NIRI national.

Communica is a team of senior-level executives, led by Doreen Lubeck and Dixie Watterson.  Our skills spring from more than 25 years of corporate and agency experience, leadership positions in professional organizations and - perhaps most valuable - lots of practice helping clients achieve their goals.

With Communica, you work directly with the people you hire.  No first-drafts by an assistant account executive.  No expensive rewrites by a mid-level manager. 

We're proud that most of our clients come from referrals - people who know our work on a first-hand basis.

We listen.  And we do have opinions, which we'll share with you. 

At the end of the day, though, it's your vision that should be realized.  It's our mission - and our great satisfaction - to help you get there.   

Doreen Lubeck

Before starting her own business in 1995, Doreen Lubeck was vice president of corporate communications and investor relations for Equity Group Investments, Inc., Sam Zell's holding company.  While with Zell's company, she acted as the corporate communications/IRO for two companies in the portfolio - American Classic Voyages Co., a cruise line, and Capsure Holdings Corp., an insurance company.

Earlier, Doreen developed Edelman Public Relations Worldwide's Chicago IR practice and managed the agency's two largest corporate accounts.  She has also been with Burson-Marsteller Inc. and Georgeson and Company Inc.

As a strategist, she has guided senior management on key issues.  She is recognized for her skills in writing annual reports, slide presentations, corporate brochures and fact/press kits; developing and implementing corporate communications and investor relations programs; conducting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative research; coordinating road shows and special events; participating in initial public offerings; and providing counsel and training in times of crisis. 

Doreen is a past president and board member of the National Investor Relations Institute's Chicago chapter.

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Dixie Watterson

A passion for the stock market and the "personality" of companies led naturally to a career in investor relations and corporate communications for Dixie Watterson. 

Before starting her own business, she was executive vice president/chief operating officer for a Chicago area investor relations firm.  Rapid agency growth under her leadership led to a partnership stake in the company.  She has also been a vice president with Fleishman-Hillard, the major international communications firm.

She gained sales, marketing and stock market skills during two years at Merrill Lynch as a financial consultant.  She also taught managerial finance to college-level juniors and seniors at the University of South Dakota. 

She has been a speaker and panelist on marketing topics.  In addition to teaching seminars for NIRI, the investor relations professional organization, she has been an officer and board member in the Chicago chapter.  She is currently a board member of the Independent Writers of Chicago. 

Dixie majored in English at Northwestern University and has an M.B.A. emphasizing finance from the University of South Dakota.  While there, she belonged to Beta Gamma Sigma business school honorary and wrote a thesis analyzing Benjamin Graham's approach to value investing.  

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Communica Partners is a certified woman-owned business.