Vice President & Account Director
Pia brings decades of experience in both corporate and agency public relations to the Common Ground team, providing strategic planning and project management to clients in various industries.
Her corporate public relations experience includes annual reports, crisis communications, executive media training, employee relations and corporate branding initiatives. She worked as the liaison between corporate communications and agency partners in addition to writing a nationally syndicated financial column.
Her agency experience encompasses multi-faceted public relations and corporate social responsibility campaigns for national and international consumer goods brands, as well as for non-profit companies. She has extensive experience in developing, planning and executing large-scale special events, including speaker series, national mobile tours, consumer events and grand openings for travel and tourism attractions.
Having worked at NBC affiliates in both St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri, Pia’s journalistic knowledge helps her develop targeted messaging for clients, helping secure placements in media outlets.
She earned a Bachelor of Journalism with an emphasis in broadcast and a minor in French from the University of Missouri and a master’s degree in media communications from Webster University. Having lived internationally, Pia is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish and proficient in French.