“Easy reading is damned hard writing.”
Specialties
Brand storytelling
Content strategy
Market intelligence
B2B digital marketing
Copywriting and editing
Emily L. Phelps
Speaker | Storyteller | Jargon Slayer
Emily has made a career out of transforming insincere, self-congratulatory marketing content into honest, authentic stories. She believes if it isn’t trust-based, it isn’t marketing. Emily brings more than 15 years experience to her work including successes that contributed to revenue growth and community engagement – and failures that have been justifiably trolled by audiences with keen jargon detectors.
Emily currently works for cyber fusion solution provider, Cyware. As Director of Marketing Communications, she leads the organization’s content and external communications strategies. In short, she and her team will build credible and engaging content and communications programs that get the right information to the right people in the right channels.
Prior to Cyware, Emily was Director of Content Marketing for external cybersecurity company, ZeroFox, building the content strategy and defining the brand's voice and tone. Before joining ZeroFox, Emily served as Campaign Marketing Director for cloud security operations company, DisruptOps — but she was more frequently referred to as their Marketing Swiss Army Knife.
In 2014, Emily joined Secureworks as Digital Marketing Manager, spending five years creating, managing, and expanding the organization’s first social marketing and blog programs. Her responsibilities grew to include content strategy, analyzing customer challenges, evaluating how Secureworks could help.
Prior to Secureworks, Emily wrote, pitched, and planned for UPS, the Atlanta BeltLine, Park Pride, and Weber Shandwick–Chicago.
Emily received her M.A. in Public Administration (2011) and her B.A. in Journalism (2004) from Georgia State University.
Since 2016, Emily has been a part of the Anti-Defamation League-Southeast’s leadership development committees, and in 2021, she joined the region’s Board of Directors. She is also an inaugural member of the nonprofit’s Glass Leadership Institute Alumni Advisory Board, where regional members work together to create and share programs that mobilize the entire GLI alumni network in the fight against hate.
Emily spends her free time writing, defending the Oxford comma, and hanging around with friends and family. You can usually find her exploring the outdoors (trying out new hiking trails and restaurant patios). She currently resides in Georgia with her husband, Mark, their son, Lucas, and their mini schnauzer, Scout.