ABOUT
For 45 years, Amy Aines has been improving leadership effectiveness and business performance through communication.
ABOUT
For 45 years, Amy Aines has been improving leadership effectiveness and business performance through communication.
In 1999 Amy left Vodafone AirTouch to create Damianakes Communications, a consulting firm dedicated to helping leaders effectively tell their company story, deliver results and navigate change.
Damianakes Communications specializes in building success cultures and helping scholars speak and listen so they can make science more accessible and gain support for their work. In November of 2017, Amy began partnering with Waterhouse Brands a consultancy creating high-impact brands for mission-driven healthcare companies. Amy served as Chief Culture Strategist. Since 2019, after the publication of Championing Science – Communicating Your Ideas to Decision Makers, Amy has been on a mission to teach essential communication, relationship-building, and influence skills to STEM graduates, faculty, and early career professionals, improving their confidence and career success.
EXPERIENCED ADVISOR
Amy’s versatility as a strategic communicator stands out. She is a reputation builder, messaging strategist, employee motivator, change manager, workshop designer, speaker coach, and storyteller, all in one. For Amy, words matter.
Experience has shown Amy that company culture is the oft-neglected foundation for success. Helping leaders tap the power of Values-based leadership is her passion and focus. Since 1999 her work as CEO of Damianakes Communications has made a difference to more than 50 companies in biotech, healthcare, telecommunications, and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area.
VERSATILE COMMUNICATOR
Before launching her consulting venture, Amy held a variety of communications management positions for telecommunications and wireless companies including AirTouch, Pacific Telesis Group, PacTel Spectrum Services, and Coastcom.
Over the years she honed her skills in public relations, employee communications, advertising, product documentation, technical writing, policy communications, crisis management and marketing communications. She has spent decades serving as a corporate spokesperson and providing counsel to senior executives and technical experts to improve their ability to communicate with impact.