NORMA F. STANLEY
PRESIDENT/CEO


Norma F. Stanley brings over 20 years experience in designing and implementing award-winning, awareness generating and brand building marketing communications programming for small and large businesses. Her specialty is helping clients reach the African American consumer, but more recently, has uncovered and is developing a niche to reach the emerging disability community.  This is the largest minority population in the nation and an untapped, truly multicultural consumer market.

Prior to forming Atlanta-based NFS Communications and Publishing, she served in executive capacities at leading international corporations, as well as top marketing and public relations firms. Among the companies with which she provided senior level leadership, was Arby's, Inc., where she served as director of marketing and communications responsible for corporate and franchise marketing, and Ketchum Public Relations where she was responsible for initiating its national African American consumer marketing practice as Account Director/Ethnic Marketing.

Norma also served as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of The Morrison Group, a leading African American marketing consulting firm. Among the clients for which she developed and executed African American consumer marketing communications programming included, Bank of America, The Southern Company (7-Eleven), Sara Lee, Coca-Cola USA, Ketchum Public Relations, Georgia-Pacific, etc.

A native of New York City, Norma has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism, and began her career as a journalist with the New York Amsterdam News and New York Daily News. Norma is an avid volunteer, providing services to a number of organizations advocating for the disability community, including Cerebral Palsy Foundation, All Children Are Special, Inc., Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities and the Atlanta Alliance for Developmental Disabilities.

She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, and previously served as chair of its Multicultural Communications Committee. She is also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, and continues to be listed among Who's Who in Black Atlanta.

A recently published author, her first book, "The Elected Lady--Finding Victory in the Challenge (Words of Faith, Reflections and Inspiration for Mothers of Special Needs Children and Other Moms), was written to offer inspiration to other mothers such as herself, who are parenting children with physical and/or mental challenges. She will be releasing two books about the disability community in 2010. Norma is also a frequent blogger on Disaboom, Urban Thought Collective, and Blog Talk Radio, where she also hosts an online radio program called "Exceptional People, Exceptional Lifestyles," designed to share news on issues impacting the nation's multicultural community, with an emphasis on the disability community.