Laura Walsh, M.A.

Principles of Business II
Marketing
Organizational Behavior

M.A. in Communication, University of Nebraska at Omaha
B.A. in Education, Arizona State University

Laura Walsh received her Master of Arts in Communication from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Arizona State University. She has extensive professional experience in marketing, having worked for many years in the health care industry in various director-level positions. She served as Regional Director of Marketing for IASIS Healthcare in Utah. For many years, Walsh and her husband operated a successful consulting firm specializing in strategic planning and marketing for those offering professional services. They worked with clients across the country and developed a reputation in health services marketing.

Walsh’s work has won dozens of awards in advertising and health care industry recognition programs, including The IABC Gold Quill Awards, the International Association of Business Communicators and the Best of Texas Awards. She is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America.

Walsh taught full-time as a lecturer in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University, teaching classes in the Advertising and Public Relations sequences. She also served as an adjunct professor in the Department of Communications at Purdue University Northwest. Walsh has also taught at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois.

Awarded the APR designation by the Public Relations Society of America.

Awards received from the following industry organizations:

• The IABC Gold Quill Awards
• AMA Academy of Health Services Marketing
• International Association of Business Communicators Best of Texas Awards
• The Healthcare Marketing Report — The country’s largest annual healthcare marketing competition