Our annual RHockstar Awards are an employee recognition program that celebrates excellence in PR and communications skills. RHockstar Award recipients are selected for putting forth superior work for their clients and the firm. Honorees also dedicate time and interest toward their own personal and professional development.

2024 marks the 5th year we’re celebrating our RHockstars focused around our 6 C’s. RH Strategic’s 6 C’s encompass the attributes that we believe help build expert communications professionals: Communicator, Creative, Coordinator, Connector, Consultant and Champion.

Our culture of teaching and learning means we’re always celebrating our colleagues’ success, and their growth. A peer-nominated program, this year the team recognized their colleagues with more than 65 RHockstar Award nominations highlighting exemplary work.

Join us in celebrating our 2024 RHockstar Award winners and our 2024 RHockstar of the Year:

  • Communicator: Olivia Dixon is recognized for her written communication skills and ability to take complex topics and expertly distill them down for the right audience to create optimal impact.
  • Creative: Katherine Misel is putting her own passion and drive into elevating and increasing participation in our firm-wide community impact program, including creating small-group volunteer opportunities and raising awareness about local organizations that could benefit from our team’s service hours.
  • Coordinator: Danielle Land and Kiahna White-Alcain are excelling as organizers of their own work, but also the finest details of what it takes to keep an account team prioritized, aligned on next steps, and able to deliver high-quality material, on time.
  • Connector: Brendan Ryan has a knack for making new and solid connections – he’s gone above and beyond to build relationships with his clients, colleagues and media friendlies in unique and personal ways.
  • Consultant: Jenna Shikoff is committed to providing expert media strategy and counsel for client campaigns big and small, and lending advice, expertise and lessons learned from years working with reporters across the media landscape.
  • Champion: Kelsey Clary is an incredible support to all her colleagues whether they are veterans of the firm or our newest peers; she approaches management and mentorship with professionalism, compassion and always with her team’s success in mind.
  • Introducing our 2024 RHockstar of the Year – Kaitlin Sheppard. Since joining the firm in 2020, Kaitlin has exemplified dedication to excellence in client service and colleague support. She has consistently shown flexibility and willingness to take on the next challenge, keeping the firm’s opportunity and success in focus. With clients and colleagues alike, Kaitlin listens to understand and responds to questions and challenges with thoughtful guidance. Kaitlin is a three-time RHockstar Award winner in the Consultant, Connector and Communicator categories.

Whether you’ve been on the team for five months, or 15 years, RH Strategic leadership and management encourage the entire team to curiously explore their personal growth and development as communications professionals. The RHockstar Awards produce inspirational leaders that reinforce our commitment to the craft, and we’re pleased to celebrate these well-deserved recognitions.

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RH Strategic is a Seattle and D.C.-based PR agency with a nationwide presence and additional global reach via membership in the Worldcom Public Relations Group. We provide strategic public relations for innovators in the technology, government, healthcare, and social and environmental impact markets.