What we do
Glenn Proctor and Trish Stukbauer, owner of i.e. marketing, have more than 80 years’ experience as journalists, strategic communicators, creative writers and authors and have worked together for more than 20 years.
Our team is successful because we listen first, communicate extensively with potential Client-Partners, then communicate internally before devising individual, group or organizational plans for specific services. Thinking creatively and strategically is our core, giving us the ability to provide the best products and services to entrepreneurs and organizations, large and small. For video or other media services, we partner with companies with the necessary experience.
JARHead Poet, formed in 2022, creates “fun thinking” activities centering on words.
Glenn Proctor
Executive Coach / Communications Professional /
Peer Support Advocate / Author / MARINE
Glenn retired in 2011 as Vice President-News/Executive Editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, leading a staff of 220 for Virginia’s capital city newspaper, thus ending a journalism career spanning more than 40 years. His career included reporting and management positions at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Kentucky, New York and New Jersey. He was also a reporter with United Press International in Philadelphia, press secretary in Washington for U.S. Rep. Dan Mica of Florida and editor of the Marine Corps base newspaper at Camp Lejeune, NC. A five-time Pulitzer Prize judge, Glenn shared in Pulitzer Prizes at the Akron Beacon Journal and Newark Star-Ledger.
Glenn was an adjunct journalism professor at Kent State University for two years and spent several summers as executive-in-residence for the Maynard Institute of Journalism Education at Northwestern University. After retiring, Glenn was appointed the Donald Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at Washington & Lee University, where he taught media management. He has lectured at more than 25 universities and mentored hundreds of career professionals nationwide.
In 2012, Glenn founded REDDjobb to provide coaching, career mapping, business strategy and communications. As a peer support professional and mental health advocate, he is certified as a Grief Support Specialist, Mental Health First Aid Instructor, QPR Suicide Prevention Instructor and North Carolina Peer Support Specialist. Glenn coaches and teaches from lived experience – alcoholic, prostate cancer and Agent Orange survivor; foster care, single parent and multiple marriages. He’s been dry for 36 years.
A Marine Corps gunnery sergeant and Vietnam veteran, he served six years on active duty and seven years in the Marine Corps Reserve.
Glenn has been inducted into the Defense Information School Hall of Fame and the Octorara High School Hall of Fame. He was named one of Charlotte’s 40 over 40 by The Charlotte Ledger. He received the National Association of Black Journalists Legacy Award, Distinguished Service Award from the Marine Military Academy and the Charlotte Black Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year Award.
Trish Stukbauer
Author, book editor, non-profit Marketing and Communications Director, former newspaper and magazine editor, Trish has more than two decades’ experience in B2B, B2C and organizational communications. Her passion is achieving results for clients through impactful materials that connect at precisely the right time. The award-winning marketer is adept at securing press coverage that captures the essence of diverse clients ranging from authors and international consortiums to local businesses. Her name is on the cover of six books, and she has ghostwritten many more. She holds Certified Nonprofit Consultant, Certified Development Executive, and Certified Nonprofit Executive designations. Founder of i.e. marketing, she works as creative partner of REDDjobb Coaching, a national communications and training consortium.
Perhaps most importantly, she gives back to Charlotte and national non-profits in low-key but meaningful ways. She has mentored dozens of non-profit and business founders and is always ready to roll up her sleeves, take a call, and dive in to sticky organizational and communications situations with solid and professional advice. She has donated countless hours of fundraising strategy and marketing collateral to organizations ranging from Charlotte Art League to the Boys and Girls Club of Waterbury and national non-profits like Bullets & Band-Aids.
