Dushka Zapata has worked in communications for over twenty years, running agencies (such as Edelman and Ogilvy) and working with companies to develop their corporate strategy.
During this time she specialized in executive equity and media and presentation training. She helped people communicate better through key message refinement and consistency and coached them to smoothly manage difficult interviews with press during times of crisis.
Dushka is an executive coach and public speaker who imparts workshops about personal brand development. She has been hired for strategic alignment hiring, to coach and mentor high potential individuals, improve upon new business pitches, refine existing processes and galvanize a company’s communication efforts.
She recently built and ran the communications team at Zendesk then became head of communications for Forte, a start up that believes games can unlock new economic opportunities for billions of people.
She is currently head of team engagement at Forte, ensuring employees of a distributed, decentralized workplace feel connected to the organization they work for.
Dushka was named one of the top 25 innovators in her industry by The Holmes Report and regularly contributes to Quora, the question and answer site, where she has over 205 million views.