Emily Brewton Schilling
I'm a dedicated, meticulous writer and editor, and I enjoy my work. I love the arts and began my career as public relations and program director at The Philadelphia Art Alliance. I also love problem-solving and process improvement, skills I began honing in my first corporate job, at Armstrong World Industries.
In the 1990s, Armstrong was a global manufacturing company of 30,000 employees; I worked in organizational development and quality management. Over the years, I developed skills like brand development, leadership communications, speech writing and coaching, training, and assessments based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria. I helped write and produce three applications for the Baldrige Award, each of which earned site visits by the examiners. Armstrong's ceilings division won the award in 1995. After producing the materials and writing speeches for Armstrong's Baldrige Award-winner conferences, I was hired at Macy's West, a division of Federated Department Stores. While managing employee communications for 100 stores, I revamped the publication, empowered the staff to design it, and served on the company's intranet development team. From Macy’s West, I was recruited by Compaq Computer Corp., where I promoted quality improvement and served on the integration teams for Compaq's acquisitions of Tandem and Digital Equipment Corp. When I launched my communications consulting business, I added website design, social media and grant writing to my skills. Corporate clients include Ancestry.com, Compaq, Cspace.com, Forbes ASAP, Quokka Sports and NBCOlympics.com. In 2008 I began working to locate and preserve my father’s artwork (he died young, in 1967), forming the James E. Brewton Foundation. My research has been fruitful, and I co-curated a solo exhibition in 2014 at Slought, Philadelphia. Since then, I have refocused my consulting business to specialize in the arts and nonprofits. Among clients and partners are Convergences Theatre Collective and the Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium, where I serve on the Steering Committee. Thanks to work on a nonprofit catalogue raisonné project, I am also trained to use panOpticon database software. I've also been exhibiting my artwork since 1990 in Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, and in juried/curated shows online. Guest lectures Moore College of Art (1988) Franklin and Marshall College (1992) University of Pennsylvania (2014) Baruch College, State University of New York (panelist, 2019) Volunteer work Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium (PASC) Steering Committee, 2016-present United Way of Lancaster County Communications Advisory Board, 1992-1996 Lancaster AIDS Project Volunteer/graphic design services, 1993-1996 Memberships The Authors Guild, Inc. Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association 
Employee communications for Armstrong, 1990-96
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Reviews
"That was a great speech!" --President Bill Clinton, 1986 "Grace under pressure--and she cracked the nut at The New York Times!" --Marilyn Goodman, Director, The Philadelphia Art Alliance "A diamond in the mine." --Andy Goldblatt, Sales Manager, WMMR-FM "Emily has done the seemingly impossible by elevating her performance even beyond the rarefied level she achieved. I cannot apply enough glowing superlatives.... Suffice it to say she has been superb." --Joseph DiSanto, Employee Communications Manager, Armstrong World Industries "Outstanding communication and organizational skills...." --William W. Adams, President & CEO, Armstrong World Industries 
Review by Emily in Philadelphia's South Street Star
A few of the Art Alliance 'Bulletins' Emily wrote and produced in the late 1980s ... She also created the 'Rape' show graphic, which packs more of a wallop in color.
Employee news for Macy's West stores, mid-'90s
Publications for Fulton Opera House, early 1990s.
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