Jackie Kuehl's Page

How do you spend your day? (aka what's your job?)

Marketing contractor/consultant and Adjunct Professor of Marketing

What's your hometown?

Palos Park, Illinois

Favorite activities?

Running, fitness, wine tasting, new experiences with my two little sons

Spirituality?

Raised strict Catholic. Now Lutheran but really subscribe to believing in God and being a good person.

What's your long-term goal? If you don't know yet, that's OK!

Create a well respected (and profitable) marketing consulting practice, continue teaching, and enjoy my 'zest' for life, family, friends and learning.

Achieving our long-term goals involves a lot of baby steps. What goal are you working toward right now?

Building credibility for myself as a consultant. Building a referral network.

How would you like KF community members help you achieve this goal?

Encouragement, Advice, Referrals, Information

Are there ways not listed that you would like KF Community members to reach out and help you?

Make me laugh.

We ask that each member makes a pledge to the community: What help can you offer to your fellow members?

Honesty and friendliness.

If you had to put your personal philosophy on a bumper sticker, what would it be?

Make it happen. Don't wait for anything to come to you.

If you have an official bio, post it here.

Jackie Kuehl has over 18 years experience in marketing and business development with a proven track record of delivering results. She created the Kuehl Marketing Group with a passion for helping businesses achieve their marketing objectives. Kuehl Marketing is a marketing contract and consulting firm for companies needing to outsource all or part of their marketing function. Jackie’s approach provides smart new perspectives, a customer focus, marketing best practices, and a strategic laser-focus on client goals.

Jackie has an M.B.A. in Marketing and is an adjunct Professor of Marketing at DePaul University. She is also a Certified Search Engine Marketing Expert (Paid Search) and business advisor with the Chicagoland Entreprenneurial Center. She has extensive experience in driving revenue-generating programs from strategic development through execution at the following companies:
• Consulted with the David James Group, a boutique marketing agency, to establish the Marketing and Business Development functions.
• Corporate Director of Marketing with The NPD Group. There she established marketing in the Chicago and Houston offices where she initiated and executed marketing strategies and plans that consistently outperformed company and industry benchmarks.
• At Frito-Lay, Inc she worked as a Business Development Manager and Category Manager where she oversaw all sales, marketing, category management, financial and operational activities for a National Account Customer.
• Prior to Frito-Lay, Jackie held Business Development and Account Management positions in the Food Industry with Acosta Food Brokers (formerly Professional Marketers, Inc) and Edward Don & Co.

Jackie graduated from DePaul University, with honors, with a B.S. degree and an M.B.A. in Marketing Management. She lives in Lemont, IL with her family, is an avid runner, and a member of the Business Marketing Association.