FOUNDER & BRAND STRATEGIST
Anna Montgomery
FOUNDER & BRAND STRATEGIST
Anna Montgomery
The titular “Anna” of Anna Montgomery & Co, Anna is our lead brand strategist and graphic designer.
For more than 12 years, she has helped small businesses, nonprofits, churches, and individuals reach their audiences more effectively through creative branding and communications. With degrees in graphic design and nonprofit leadership, she brings a passion for design perfection together with a strategic understanding of the unique contexts and challenges nonprofits experience. She sets creative direction through foundational conversations to ensure a brand, website, or marketing campaign support a vision that will reach a target audience.
Anna loves collaborating with people to figure out their big-picture goals and then attain them through a workable strategy. In the early stages of these partnerships, Anna helps people creatively stretch themselves and realize they can achieve even greater success in their mission than they might have hoped. As she puts it, “Through the process of working with us, I want clients to feel like they have a partner who’s wholeheartedly invested in helping them moving their mission forward.”
As a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator© coach and avid reader of Harvard Business Review, Anna is committed to improvement, both of herself and those she works with. When she isn’t working, she is often spending time with her dog Flynn or tending to her 45 (and counting!) houseplants.
ANNA@ANNAMONTGOMERY.CO
CONTENT STRATEGIST
Brice Montgomery
CONTENT STRATEGIST
Brice Montgomery
As a content strategist, Brice likes to think through how messages are best framed for different audiences and purposes.
Brice draws from his background in linguistics to think creatively about how a given message will be received. As he explains, “Communication is always an act of translation, and navigating the space between communicator and listener requires its own kind of creativity.” Brice recognizes the importance of messaging with an ear for generosity, preemptively addressing the questions that an audience may have.
Brice’s role on our team centers around written communication, and he is excited about finding ways to make messages more accessible, whether that is through writing content or offering tips and feedback on how to strengthen pre-existing content. Ultimately, his goal is to inspire confidence in your brand and your ability to communicate it with clarity.
Outside of his work for Anna Montgomery & Co, Brice enjoys reading memoirs, writing essays, and tutoring writing.
brice@annamontgomery.co
PROJECT & RELATIONSHIP MANAGER
Lily Shanks
PROJECT & RELATIONSHIP MANAGER
Lily Shanks
Lily has the best of both worlds as she coordinates with both our team and the people we serve to ensure that everything runs smoothly.
Lily’s job is really about making the right connections at the right time, and her relationality positions her to do so by considering small logistical details. As she describes it, “It’s truly a delight to learn our people’s needs and deadlines, as well as ensure our team has the resources they need to create truly beautiful and effective products.”
Essentially, Lily keeps Anna Montgomery & Co moving like a well-oiled machine, but she is also a big reason it doesn’t start to feel like a machine. Through her attention to people’s needs, she makes certain that we are all able to give our best without burnout, and she makes a point of keeping people up to date on where their projects are at so they can rest easy!
Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and three children. She also likes running and old impractical houses.
LILY@ANNAMONTGOMERY.CO
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Abigail Richardson
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Abigail Richardson
Abigail views herself as the team’s resident coach. She enjoys helping people understand how to put their brand to work through effective social media strategies.
As the social media manager for the Anna Montgomery & Co team, Abigail occupies a unique role in how she helps real people reach real people. Social media can often feel distant or disingenuous, but Abigail works to ensure that people feel confident in implementing their brand honestly. In her own words, “I want them to feel empowered to implement the resources we have equipped them with while simultaneously knowing they can ask us any questions along the way.”
Abigail views her role as very collaborative, and she makes it a point to be both fun and professional so that social media doesn’t feel daunting. Likewise, she wants people to know that effective social media use can itself be a creative act. By thinking outside the box and encouraging others to do the same, she knows that any project can embody a creative vision in exciting and unexpected ways.
Next time you have a conversation with Abigail, ask her about her love for cats or her secret skill—woodworking and refinishing!
ABIGAIL@ANNAMONTGOMERY.CO
CLIENT RELATIONS DIRECTOR
Debbie Armbruster
CLIENT RELATIONS DIRECTOR
Debbie Armbruster
As our Client Relations Director, Debbie is excited about helping people find the “why” underneath the “what” of their vision.
Debbie is energized by imagined possibilities—She loves to build and nurture trust-centric relationships with potential clients as they consider whether Anna Montgomery & Co is the right fit for them. She explains, “I am passionate about restoring things that are broken, making them things of beauty for others to enjoy.” That’s the mindset she brings to her role as the Client Relations Director, as she looks beyond what isn’t working for a client and instead broadens their vision for communicating what is working.
She is excited by the prospect of helping others overcome challenges, and she’s energized by facilitating transformation to bring about growth. Debbie is a big-picture thinker with the mind of a researcher, so she enjoys meeting with people, developing a clear picture of their vision, and using that as a starting point to help them articulate a step-by-step plan for the future.
When she isn’t working, Debbie is an avid reader. She once reached the library limit of 125 books checked out at a time!
DEBBIE@ANNAMONTGOMERY.CO
CLIENT RELATIONS MANAGER & MARKETING STRATEGIST
Hannah Leifheit
CLIENT RELATIONS MANAGER & MARKETING STRATEGIST
Hannah Leifheit
Hannah is excited about listening to goals and letting people know that she can and will make them a reality.
Hannah knows that we can often get caught up in the mundanity of day-to-day life, but creativity is a way to break that cycle. In her work as a Marketing Strategist, Hannah brings that enthusiasm to her conversations with the people she works with. As Hannah puts it, “I want them to feel heard in their vision and met in their drive.”
Perhaps surprisingly, Hannah views marketing as being largely comprised of listening. She listens to what people want to communicate, and she helps people listen to their audience so that they can better communicate with them. It’s like the circle of life, but for listening. Ultimately, by the end of a project, she wants people to feel confident and capable of implementing their brand in sustained marketing.
Outside of her time at Anna Montgomery & Co, Hannah is a voracious reader—one year she finished 182! She also enjoys writing, and is currently working on a memoir which she hopes to have published in the next few years.
HANNAH@ANNAMONTGOMERY.CO
CONTENT STRATEGIST
Amelia Gray
CONTENT STRATEGIST
Amelia Gray
Amelia loves connecting with people through language.
As a content strategist for the Anna Montgomery & Co team, she is always looking for ways to to find the right word. As she puts it, “It’s less about the specifics—blog posts, emails, promotional writing, etc.—and more about making our mission accessible to our clients and partnering with them to do the same for theirs.” It’s easy to get caught up in the novelty of creating something new, but Amelia has a unique proclivity for revisiting her work and digging deeper to find something even more creative—a skill that she loves sharing with people she writes for as she shows them her step-by-step writing process. In doing so, she hopes that people can begin to view creativity as accessible and recognize their own potential.
Amelia’s creativity isn’t limited to her work— in her spare time, she enjoys birdwatching, and she’s working on developing her Spanish and affinity for country music.
amelia@annamontgomery.co
SOCIAL MEDIA INTERN
Emma Smith
SOCIAL MEDIA INTERN
Emma Smith
As our Social Media Intern, Emma is at the forefront of our mission to build trust by communicating the Anna Montgomery & Co vision with honesty and joy.
She strives to add a personal touch to everything she does because her work is relational. As she puts it, “You can’t know someone without first spending time with them!” At the heart of her mindset is a passion for creativity, and she enjoys navigating the ever-shifting challenge of creating content that connects. She hopes that her excitement will be felt and shared by the people she works with, and she wants them to know that they are heard and equipped to implement their own creative visions, regardless of what they are. Ultimately, though, she believes that social media is more than the sum of its parts, and she strives to ensure that the platform always highlights relationships instead of distracts from them.
In her spare time, you can try to catch her searching for the perfect bagel in NYC, but she also runs half-marathons, so good luck.
EMMA@ANNAMONTGOMERY.CO
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Brand Strategy & Development
Every organization has a brand. Think of it like a pair of clothes—we’ve all been told to dress for the job we want before an interview. How you present yourself communicates something about your identity. Our goal is to help you find the right fit to sharpen your voice and reach the people you want to reach, whether that is through a new brand, a rebrand, or training for how to implement your brand more effectively.
Web Development
Being part of the always-online generation brings a new set of questions, challenges, and opportunities, and you may wonder how your organization fits into the internet landscape. We can help you by developing a website tailored to meet your needs and training you in how to keep it up to date.
Marketing & Communications
Marketing & Communications can feel a lot like gardening. You plant the seeds. You get the dirt under your fingernails. You burn out. It’s tempting to give up before you see results because the work can seem fruitless without careful cultivation, but that’s where we come in. Through our retainer options, we can provide you with long-term support so that you see your goals come to fruition.
FOUNDER & BRAND STRATEGIST
Anna Montgomery
FOUNDER & BRAND STRATEGIST
Anna Montgomery
The titular “Anna” of Anna Montgomery & Co, Anna is our lead brand strategist and graphic designer.
For more than 12 years, she has helped small businesses, nonprofits, churches, and individuals reach their audiences more effectively through creative branding and communications. With degrees in graphic design and nonprofit leadership, she brings a passion for design perfection together with a strategic understanding of the unique contexts and challenges nonprofits experience. She sets creative direction through foundational conversations to ensure a brand, website, or marketing campaign support a vision that will reach a target audience.
Anna loves collaborating with people to figure out their big-picture goals and then attain them through a workable strategy. In the early stages of these partnerships, Anna helps people creatively stretch themselves and realize they can achieve even greater success in their mission than they might have hoped. As she puts it, “Through the process of working with us, I want clients to feel like they have a partner who’s wholeheartedly invested in helping them moving their mission forward.”
As a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator© coach and avid reader of Harvard Business Review, Anna is committed to improvement, both of herself and those she works with. When she isn’t working, she is often spending time with her dog Flynn or tending to her 45 (and counting!) houseplants.
ANNA@ANNAMONTGOMERY.CO
CONTENT STRATEGIST
Brice Montgomery
CONTENT STRATEGIST
Brice Montgomery
As a content strategist, Brice likes to think through how messages are best framed for different audiences and purposes.
Brice draws from his background in linguistics to think creatively about how a given message will be received. As he explains, “Communication is always an act of translation, and navigating the space between communicator and listener requires its own kind of creativity.” Brice recognizes the importance of messaging with an ear for generosity, preemptively addressing the questions that an audience may have.
Brice’s role on our team centers around written communication, and he is excited about finding ways to make messages more accessible, whether that is through writing content or offering tips and feedback on how to strengthen pre-existing content. Ultimately, his goal is to inspire confidence in your brand and your ability to communicate it with clarity.
Outside of his work for Anna Montgomery & Co, Brice enjoys reading memoirs, writing essays, and tutoring writing.
brice@annamontgomery.co
PROJECT & RELATIONSHIP MANAGER
Lily Shanks
PROJECT & RELATIONSHIP MANAGER
Lily Shanks
Lily has the best of both worlds as she coordinates with both our team and the people we serve to ensure that everything runs smoothly.
Lily’s job is really about making the right connections at the right time, and her relationality positions her to do so by considering small logistical details. As she describes it, “It’s truly a delight to learn our people’s needs and deadlines, as well as ensure our team has the resources they need to create truly beautiful and effective products.”
Essentially, Lily keeps Anna Montgomery & Co moving like a well-oiled machine, but she is also a big reason it doesn’t start to feel like a machine. Through her attention to people’s needs, she makes certain that we are all able to give our best without burnout, and she makes a point of keeping people up to date on where their projects are at so they can rest easy!
Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and three children. She also likes running and old impractical houses.
LILY@ANNAMONTGOMERY.CO
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Abigail Richardson
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Abigail Richardson
Abigail views herself as the team’s resident coach. She enjoys helping people understand how to put their brand to work through effective social media strategies.
As the social media manager for the Anna Montgomery & Co team, Abigail occupies a unique role in how she helps real people reach real people. Social media can often feel distant or disingenuous, but Abigail works to ensure that people feel confident in implementing their brand honestly. In her own words, “I want them to feel empowered to implement the resources we have equipped them with while simultaneously knowing they can ask us any questions along the way.”
Abigail views her role as very collaborative, and she makes it a point to be both fun and professional so that social media doesn’t feel daunting. Likewise, she wants people to know that effective social media use can itself be a creative act. By thinking outside the box and encouraging others to do the same, she knows that any project can embody a creative vision in exciting and unexpected ways.
Next time you have a conversation with Abigail, ask her about her love for cats or her secret skill—woodworking and refinishing!
ABIGAIL@ANNAMONTGOMERY.CO
CLIENT RELATIONS DIRECTOR
Debbie Armbruster
CLIENT RELATIONS DIRECTOR
Debbie Armbruster
As our Client Relations Director, Debbie is excited about helping people find the “why” underneath the “what” of their vision.
Debbie is energized by imagined possibilities—She loves to build and nurture trust-centric relationships with potential clients as they consider whether Anna Montgomery & Co is the right fit for them. She explains, “I am passionate about restoring things that are broken, making them things of beauty for others to enjoy.” That’s the mindset she brings to her role as the Client Relations Director, as she looks beyond what isn’t working for a client and instead broadens their vision for communicating what is working.
She is excited by the prospect of helping others overcome challenges, and she’s energized by facilitating transformation to bring about growth. Debbie is a big-picture thinker with the mind of a researcher, so she enjoys meeting with people, developing a clear picture of their vision, and using that as a starting point to help them articulate a step-by-step plan for the future.
When she isn’t working, Debbie is an avid reader. She once reached the library limit of 125 books checked out at a time!
DEBBIE@ANNAMONTGOMERY.CO
CLIENT RELATIONS MANAGER & MARKETING STRATEGIST
Hannah Leifheit
CLIENT RELATIONS MANAGER & MARKETING STRATEGIST
Hannah Leifheit
Hannah is excited about listening to goals and letting people know that she can and will make them a reality.
Hannah knows that we can often get caught up in the mundanity of day-to-day life, but creativity is a way to break that cycle. In her work as a Marketing Strategist, Hannah brings that enthusiasm to her conversations with the people she works with. As Hannah puts it, “I want them to feel heard in their vision and met in their drive.”
Perhaps surprisingly, Hannah views marketing as being largely comprised of listening. She listens to what people want to communicate, and she helps people listen to their audience so that they can better communicate with them. It’s like the circle of life, but for listening. Ultimately, by the end of a project, she wants people to feel confident and capable of implementing their brand in sustained marketing.
Outside of her time at Anna Montgomery & Co, Hannah is a voracious reader—one year she finished 182! She also enjoys writing, and is currently working on a memoir which she hopes to have published in the next few years.
HANNAH@ANNAMONTGOMERY.CO
CONTENT STRATEGIST
Amelia Gray
CONTENT STRATEGIST
Amelia Gray
Amelia loves connecting with people through language.
As a content strategist for the Anna Montgomery & Co team, she is always looking for ways to to find the right word. As she puts it, “It’s less about the specifics—blog posts, emails, promotional writing, etc.—and more about making our mission accessible to our clients and partnering with them to do the same for theirs.” It’s easy to get caught up in the novelty of creating something new, but Amelia has a unique proclivity for revisiting her work and digging deeper to find something even more creative—a skill that she loves sharing with people she writes for as she shows them her step-by-step writing process. In doing so, she hopes that people can begin to view creativity as accessible and recognize their own potential.
Amelia’s creativity isn’t limited to her work— in her spare time, she enjoys birdwatching, and she’s working on developing her Spanish and affinity for country music.
amelia@annamontgomery.co
SOCIAL MEDIA INTERN
Emma Smith
SOCIAL MEDIA INTERN
Emma Smith
As our Social Media Intern, Emma is at the forefront of our mission to build trust by communicating the Anna Montgomery & Co vision with honesty and joy.
She strives to add a personal touch to everything she does because her work is relational. As she puts it, “You can’t know someone without first spending time with them!” At the heart of her mindset is a passion for creativity, and she enjoys navigating the ever-shifting challenge of creating content that connects. She hopes that her excitement will be felt and shared by the people she works with, and she wants them to know that they are heard and equipped to implement their own creative visions, regardless of what they are. Ultimately, though, she believes that social media is more than the sum of its parts, and she strives to ensure that the platform always highlights relationships instead of distracts from them.
In her spare time, you can try to catch her searching for the perfect bagel in NYC, but she also runs half-marathons, so good luck.
EMMA@ANNAMONTGOMERY.CO
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Brand Strategy & Development
Every organization has a brand. Think of it like a pair of clothes—we’ve all been told to dress for the job we want before an interview. How you present yourself communicates something about your identity. Our goal is to help you find the right fit to sharpen your voice and reach the people you want to reach, whether that is through a new brand, a rebrand, or training for how to implement your brand more effectively.
Web Development
Being part of the always-online generation brings a new set of questions, challenges, and opportunities, and you may wonder how your organization fits into the internet landscape. We can help you by developing a website tailored to meet your needs and training you in how to keep it up to date.
Marketing & Communications
Marketing & Communications can feel a lot like gardening. You plant the seeds. You get the dirt under your fingernails. You burn out. It’s tempting to give up before you see results because the work can seem fruitless without careful cultivation, but that’s where we come in. Through our retainer options, we can provide you with long-term support so that you see your goals come to fruition.
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