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MaryAnne Howland
MaryAnne Howland
Ibis Communications
www.ibiscommunications.com
 
Owner and president of Ibis Communications, MaryAnne and her award-winning creative team help businesses develop and integrate solutions for diversity and inclusion for internal and external audiences, especially in the areas of HR, Supplier Diversity and Community Partnerships. "Said more simply, we connect consumers with brands, employers with talent, purchasers with minority suppliers, and philanthropists with non-profits."
 
Ibis Communications provides brand solutions for clients such as Pitney Bowes, Toyota, HCA Healthcare Corporation, The Walter Kaitz Foundation, National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications, Textron, Vanderbilt University, and Tennessee's Regional Transit Authority.
 
"In recent years, we have expanded our brand to include green marketing and business practices as part of our commitment to our clients, our partners, and our global community." MaryAnne has written a chapter "Bridging the Brand of Diversity and Inclusion with Green" recently published in Aspatore Books' Greening Your Company, part of the Inside The Minds books series.
 
MaryAnne's community activities include: President, Motorsports Institute, board member of Nashville International Arts at the Airport, Diversity Chair for the American Advertising Federation — Nashville, Multicultural Marketing Committee for National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications, Community Outreach for Frist Center in Nashville, and board member of SVN.
 
Her proudest accomplishment: In 2007, MaryAnne was named "Advertising Working Mother of the Year" by Working Mother Magazine.