About Sandy

Purple Wren offers strategies for your marketing communications needs.

Owner Sandy Renshaw's experience in graphic design, business communications, event planning, and web development are strengths she relies upon in her role as consultant and coach. She specializes in solving business needs and improving client visibility using the latest communications technologies and techniques.

Prior to launching Purple Wren, Sandy served as an independent blog writer and virtual assistant for small businesses. Before that she worked with companies like Kemin Industries, Stanford University News Service, Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, and the Iowa League of Cities.

She is an active member of the Des Moines Alliance of The Association for Women in Communications where she co-edits the local website, and she is an at-large board member for the Digital Arts Group (DAG). She is a former member of the Iowa Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and served on their board.