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About James R. Hasse, IABC Accredited

As owner of Hasse Communication Counseling, Jim specializes in developing, marketing and facilitating Web-based communities for disability audiences.

He works full-time as senior content developer for eSight Careers Network, based in New York City, a web site which provides comprehensive career management services for people with visual impairments and other disabilities on worldwide basis.

Jim is also developer, facilitator and marketer for tell-us-your-story.com, a place where people with disabilities can retain ownership of their personal experience stories while sharing them online with others and showcasing them for editors, publishers, and agents.

He’s accredited by the International Association of Business Communicators, San Francisco, Calif..

In 1965, Jim graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison’s School of Journalism, where he earned a B.S. degree in journalism and advertising with honors, and joined Wisconsin Dairies Cooperative (now Foremost Farms USA), Baraboo, Wis., two years after it was formed as a $30 million-a-year company.

As the head of corporate communications for the company, he counseled senior management through 15 mergers and acquisitions and saw the business become a Fortune 500 company.

Jim established his own business in 1994, after completing 28 years of service at Foremost Farms. During 16 of those 28 years, he reported to the CEO (first as communication director and then as vice president - communication). He also served as the company's organizational development officer (in charge of developing the organization's strategic planning function and a management system to go with it).

In 1994, Jim received the Cooperative Spirit Award from the Cooperative Communicators Association (CCA), a national organization for professional communications employed by cooperatives, and the Cooperative Builder Award from the Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives, a state-wide trade association.

In 1995, he received CCA’s most prestigious honor, the H.E. Klinefelter Award for distinguished service in cooperative communications.

He's the author of Break Out: Finding Freedom When You Don't Quite Fit The Mold (Quixote Publications, 1996) and has had articles published in numerous regional and national publications, including Careers & disABLD, The Source, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin State Journal and The Capital Times.

Jim also currently serves as a member of the board of directors for the Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy in Madison, Wis..

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