FOUNDER & BRAND STRATEGIST
Anna Montgomery
Anna Montgomery
The titular “Anna” of Anna Montgomery & Co, Anna is our lead brand strategist and graphic designer.
For more than 12 years, Anna has helped small businesses, nonprofits, churches, and individuals reach their audiences more effectively through creative branding and communications projects. In her role here, she is the main point of contact when we partner with an organization to help them. She sets creative direction and has many of the foundational conversations that ensure a brand, website, or marketing campaign support a vision that will reach a target audience.
Anna loves having conversations with people to figure out their big picture goals and attain them through a workable strategy. In the early stages of these partnerships, Anna is excited by helping people creatively stretch themselves to realize they can succeed in their mission even more than they might hope. As she puts it, “Through the process of working with us, I want them to feel like they have a partner who’s wholeheartedly invested in helping them moving their mission forward. “
As a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 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
PROJECT & RELATIONSHIP MANAGER
Lily Shanks
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
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
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 take unrelated ideas she has seen and combine them into something with a new life all its own. 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 a content strategist, as she looks beyond what isn’t working in a message and instead finds new ways to communicate 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
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
MARKETING STRATEGIST
Grace Sensing
Grace Sensing
Grace loves to see how form and function intersect in good marketing, and she puts this skill to use by helping people convey their vision effectively.
As a marketing strategist, Grace helps people identify their ideal audience, use that knowledge to create content, and transform it into a plan to reach them. Grace enjoys thinking creatively, and she believes that creativity underlies effective marketing. In her words, “Through our uniqueness and creativity, we all bring new things to the world and give everyone else new things to learn and discover.”
By the end of a project, Grace hopes that people feel their vision has been understood and amplified by the Anna Montgomery & Co team. She wants them to know that we are effectively an extension of their own team, and we are here to help them build upon the strengths they already have.
Outside of Anna Mo & Co, Grace loves organizing and ballet. Ask her about her love of spreadsheets or her background in dance!
GRACE@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
Anna Montgomery
The titular “Anna” of Anna Montgomery & Co, Anna is our lead brand strategist and graphic designer.
For more than 12 years, Anna has helped small businesses, nonprofits, churches, and individuals reach their audiences more effectively through creative branding and communications projects. In her role here, she is the main point of contact when we partner with an organization to help them. She sets creative direction and has many of the foundational conversations that ensure a brand, website, or marketing campaign support a vision that will reach a target audience.
Anna loves having conversations with people to figure out their big picture goals and attain them through a workable strategy. In the early stages of these partnerships, Anna is excited by helping people creatively stretch themselves to realize they can succeed in their mission even more than they might hope. As she puts it, “Through the process of working with us, I want them to feel like they have a partner who’s wholeheartedly invested in helping them moving their mission forward. “
As a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 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
PROJECT & RELATIONSHIP MANAGER
Lily Shanks
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
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
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 take unrelated ideas she has seen and combine them into something with a new life all its own. 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 a content strategist, as she looks beyond what isn’t working in a message and instead finds new ways to communicate 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
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
MARKETING STRATEGIST
Grace Sensing
Grace Sensing
Grace loves to see how form and function intersect in good marketing, and she puts this skill to use by helping people convey their vision effectively.
As a marketing strategist, Grace helps people identify their ideal audience, use that knowledge to create content, and transform it into a plan to reach them. Grace enjoys thinking creatively, and she believes that creativity underlies effective marketing. In her words, “Through our uniqueness and creativity, we all bring new things to the world and give everyone else new things to learn and discover.”
By the end of a project, Grace hopes that people feel their vision has been understood and amplified by the Anna Montgomery & Co team. She wants them to know that we are effectively an extension of their own team, and we are here to help them build upon the strengths they already have.
Outside of Anna Mo & Co, Grace loves organizing and ballet. Ask her about her love of spreadsheets or her background in dance!
GRACE@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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