emily burkle |  founder 

Based in Southern California, Emily currently works as an executive-level marketing-communications, brand, and career consultant through her independent practice, Burkle Communications Consulting. She leverages her sixteen-year career to help clients create and grow marketing-communications programs that have meaningful and lasting results. In the past, she served as Managing Partner at Elle Communications and in her four and a half years with the agency, helped shape it as a leading, dynamic communications boutique that represents impact and lifestyle clientele that are changing the world. Over her career, Emily has developed and led holistic, strategic and creative public relations and marketing programs on a national scale across several media verticals, while simultaneously building internal operations procedures and training, mentorship, intern and hiring programs. She took particular interest in cultivating unique and progressive company cultures, focused on employee well- being and positive results. She believes in a progressive system of outcome measurement and bottom-line focused, results-driven plans. Previous to her position at Elle, Emily worked as an Account Supervisor at Charles Communications, representing brands in the food and wine space, with a specialty in sustainability. Some of Emily’s past clients include Omaze, Invisible Children, MiiR, Project 7, L Condoms, The Honor Foundation, Beaming, Classic Journeys, Starlight Children’s Foundation, Benziger Family Winery, Mark West, Pine Ridge Winery, Kerri Walsh Jennings’ p1440, PMD Beauty, ResortPass and more. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, with an emphasis in Writing from the University of San Francisco and a Master’s in Marketing and Management with an emphasis in luxury food and wine from INSEEC Grande Ecole du Commerce in Bordeaux, France. 

 

Emily prides herself on her value-driven personal relationships with our clients, fostered and nurtured with integrity, honesty, mutual respect, positivity, old school elbow grease and the belief that anything is possible. Through BCC, she only works with clients whose purpose and cause she feels truly aligned, and that philosophical alignment allows her to passionately pursue their goals as if they are her own. As her portfolio grows, she’s dedicated to performing with excellence and to persistent evolution. As an independent consultancy, BCC has the flexibility to work with care on the things most important to our clients, moving through plans with a thoughtfulness that often gets lost when working with larger agencies. Emily’s work with the media and other partners mirrors this same level of care and personalization and allows us to produce meaningful results.   

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