Dawn Hanson
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
The Fairmount Group's Dawn Hanson is an accomplished business executive who has dedicated her entire career to helping organizations build their brands, reputations and relationships.
Dawn founded The Fairmount Group in 2006 following a successful 20-year career in the corporate sector. She has extensive experience in strategic planning; branding; marketing communications; financial communications; media relations; online marketing and social media; issues and crisis management; mergers and acquisition management; community relations; employee engagement; and corporate social responsibility.
She has a stellar record of creating and directing strategically driven, results oriented, high performance teams. She is recognized for her innovative approaches to organizational development, project management and business process improvement (BPI) for marketing and communications departments.
Dawn also offers deep expertise in crisis communications. She has helped employers and clients deal with manufacturing accidents, workplace violence, employee layoffs, union conflicts, environmental issues, product liability issues, mergers and acquisitions, andother high-stakes reputation issues.
Before founding The Fairmount Group, Dawn worked for diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation in Cleveland as Director of External & Marketing Communications. She had global responsibility for branding and corporate identity, financial communications, media relations and crisis communications.
Prior to Eaton, Dawn spent six years in Copenhagen, Denmark where she was Vice President of Corporate Communications for the Borealis A/S, a $3 billion producer of polyolefin plastics. She led a staff of more than 30 employees in seven countries.
Previously, Dawn spent four years in Helsinki, Finland where she directed external communications for the Chemicals division of Neste Oy, an international oil and petrochemicals company. In this role, she led all aspects of the division’s public relations efforts.
Dawn earned a Master of Science in Communications Management from the Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations from Louisiana State University.