Alex Harris General Manager Alex Harris has a broad background in business, specifically corporate positions in sales, marketing and public relations, and then general management roles in a variety of industries including media. She brings to Reputation Australia a strong background in strategic planning, high level pitch experience from strategy through tender and bid document delivery, strategic communications and public speaking/presentation skills.
Beginning in the publishing industry in 1987 in media sales, Alex grew into editorial and publishing roles, writing newspaper and magazine feature and cover stories, including more recently, freelance articles for Australian Financial Review, Boss Magazine and Management Today. Since 1999, Alex has specialised in persuasive writing, both holistically and as part of bid teams, producing major tender documents, investor material, proposals and other corporate documentation as a consultant to some of Australia’s leading corporations and consortiums. From 1993-1997, Alex was editor of North America’s first finance and business journal for women, Winning Strategies. Alex won the 1994 Chicago Women in Publishing Award and the National Association of Women Business owners 1995 new Venture Award. Alex was a Series 7 licensed stockbroker and Series 63 Investment Adviser with Merrill Lynch Chicago in 1993, later transferring to Marc Lane & Associates brokerage, concurrent with developing Winning Strategies and the Women’s Investment Network, Chicago. Alex was a Founding Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, became a Trustee to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) in 1989, an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management in 2003 and a member of the CEO Institute (Brisbane) in 2004. In the USA, Alex served on the board of the Australian American Chamber of Commerce (1993-1997) and was a member of the Chicago Board of Roosevelt University (1996), and a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Today, Alex is the publisher and editor of the Reputation Report, an online magazine examining the activities of the business sector, viewed through the lense of reputation management.