KayAnn P. Schoeneman

KayAnn Schoeneman, President, is an expert in creating communications strategies that enable clients to transform, accelerate growth and win with target audiences. She plays a critical role in building and leading high-performing teams who collaborate to solve problems and provide measurable results.

KayAnn serves on the Curley senior leadership team and is responsible for aligning and mobilizing Curley Company’s client service activities, overseeing day-to-day client and team operations and ensuring best-in-class results and client satisfaction. She continues to serve as a strategic advisor and relationship manager for key clients, including continued accelerated growth of their firm’s corporate and public affairs practice.

Prior to Curley Company, KayAnn spent more than a decade at Ketchum, a global communications consultancy, serving in a variety of leadership roles most recently as Ketchum’s Washington D.C. Marketplace Leader, managing the office and its nearly 100 employees. In 2017, KayAnn took over the public affairs practice and led the team to year-over-year single-digit growth through new client and incremental revenue acquisition. KayAnn also served as part of the agency’s Global Research & Analytics leadership team, overseeing employees in the Washington D.C., Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco offices.

KayAnn is an alumna of The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, was an adjunct professor at The Johns Hopkins University for the Master of Arts in communication program teaching polling and public perceptions and completed Yale School of Management’s Executive Education program for Accelerated Business Management and Women’s Leadership.