Nicole Andrews

Owner, Lead Strategist

Nicole Andrews is the owner and lead strategist of Market Speak, a marketing strategy and brand development firm. Her career has been entirely devoted to sales and marketing for the professional services industry, including working with Kahn Kleinman LPA - a Cleveland-based corporate and real estate law firm with more than 50 professionals, Turner Construction Company - a $10 billion international construction company, and Grant Thornton LPA - the fifth largest accounting and management consulting firm in the nation.

Nicole and her Market Speak team help clients see the big picture strategy of what they are trying to accomplish then help them develop streamlined tactics to achieve their goals within specific timeframes. Market Speak campaigns are extremely successful in achieving specific goals and bottom-line results. As a business marketing strategist, she prescribes and assists in the implementation of client's sales and marketing initiatives and growth plans related to client development, revenues, and professional development. Nicole has lead communications planning and client strategy to help secure hundreds of millions in new business for her clients.

She partners with CEOs and senior executives to deliver innovative, integrated communications strategies and services. Nicole serves as her client's chief architect for driving innovative communications strategies that increase awareness, deepen relationships, and improve sales.

Nicole specializes in working with professional service firms interested in moving up in competition altitude to procure desirable projects and new clients. Through utilization of branding and name recognition standards, she has effectively gone against the largest competition available, both nationally and internationally, to bring home tremendous results.

With more than nine years of her professional career dedicated to the real estate and construction industry, Nicole is a contributing writer to Properties Magazine. Her deep roots and relationships in the architecture, engineering and construction industry allow her to identify timely stories on new building programs and trends related to the industry.

She is a regular instructor for the City of Cleveland's program for minority and female-owned businesses, and is a frequent lecturer at Northeast Ohio's Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) programs. Nicole is Past-President of SMPS Northeast Ohio and has served on the Board of Directors for the Northern Ohio chapter of Legal Marketing Association. She received her B.A. from John Carroll University and has completed courses for the Ohio real estate prelicensing requirements.