ABOUT SHELLY
Shelly Wozniak is a corporate folklorist, leadership champion, systems thinker, motivator and award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience leading creative teams that improve competitive advantage through innovative , integrated communications and marketing programs.
She is the owner and chief communications consultant of Wozniak Communications, the small business she founded in 2021. Through her firm, she provides communications and marketing services to private- and public-sector clients across resource development, retail, government and nonprofit industries. Additional previous roles include senior director, director and manager of corporate communications at NANA Regional Corporation; senior internal communications consultant at Legacy Health; director of communications at Les Schwab Tire Centers; communications officer for the University of Alaska Anchorage College of Health; and public relations manager for both NANA Development Corporation and the Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB).
Additionally, Shelly co-produced and hosted the Public Radio News Director (PRNDI) and Clarion award-winning radio program AK from the Alaska Public Radio Network (APRN). Some Alaskans know her as Michelle Chick from her career at New Northwest Broadcasters, where she served as operations manager for the Anchorage cluster; program director, host and music director of KWLF and KUWL in Fairbanks; and a radio personality on KFAT and KXLR.
Shelly is also a mixed metabolic workout enthusiast and self-proclaimed theatre nerd (yes, she spells it that way). She holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) with an emphasis in organizational leadership and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies from Alaska Pacific University (APU).