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As a communications consultant and writer, Jim Kepler calls upon a broad range of experiences to help clients arrive at solutions in information transfer. His background in education, publishing, and industrial sales/marketing provides him with know-how for dealing with a variety of people and issues; solving customer service problems; and conceiving and evaluating communications projects at many different levels: books, manuals, periodicals, and other media. Following college (BA/physical anthropology, Ohio State University), Jim developed and taught basic English, GED preparation, and "survival skills" communications courses in a maximum security prison. From there he moved into advertising and sales for a manufacturing company and eventually into publishing. After a transfer to Chicago, Jim studied publishing production at University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Printing Industry Institute. He and Ann Kepler launched Kepler Associates in 1978, and he began writing and editing educational, healthcare, and business books for textbook and specialty publishers. He also taught editing and business writing courses at Roosevelt University and Columbia College and introduced a popular public presentation called "You Ought to Write a Book." He has spoken about various communications topics before the national conventions of the American Medical Writers Association, American Management Association, and Association of Professional Writing Consultants. Together with his colleague, Jane Ranshaw, he has presented day-long workshops on interdepartmental and personal practice consulting at the annual conventions of the International Society for Performance Improvement in San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas, Anaheim and, this year, Long Beach. More than a dozen years ago Jim changed his focus from education to business and industry. He continued to write, ghosting a history of the Union League Club of Chicago (The First One Hundred Years) and a book for the Chicago fire commissioner (Fire! Survival and Prevention, Harper & Row), and edited books on management and banking. But his primary work has been in the development of corporate procedures manuals, especially for customer service and consumer relations departments, as well as the creation of customer communications programs and response correspondence. Since 1991 Kepler Associates has also won several awards for their writing, editing, and production of Midwest Engineer magazine for the Western Society of Engineers. Jim is the project development editor for a New York-based literary agency and works with Midwestern authors in the preparation of submission proposals for their book manuscripts. Kepler Associates also produces special event and commemorative books, such as corporate and family histories. Jim continues to teach but now limits that to one-on-one coaching tutorials in business communications and creative property development. Contact him at jkepler@keplerassociates.com or 773/761-1858. Ann Kepler brings 20+ years of consumer/patient-level healthcare writing expertise to the project planning table.

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