About

Courtney Cochran is a creative director, communications strategist, and writer who builds clarity into organizations from the ground up. For more than 18 years, she has built and led in-house creative teams at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and brand, designing communication systems meant to scale with integrity.

She is best known for creating coherence where ideas, people, and platforms meet. Her work focuses on shaping shared direction early—aligning strategy, narrative, and execution so teams move together with purpose and confidence. Rather than treating communication as output, she approaches it as architecture: something designed deliberately to support meaning, trust, and momentum over time.

Courtney currently leads a multidisciplinary team supporting enterprise-wide communications. Her work spans executive communications, impact reporting, brand stewardship, digital platforms, internal and external campaigns, government relations, social media, and thought leadership. She has guided award-winning initiatives and built creative operations that enable organizations to grow thoughtfully, without losing their center.

She has always been a writer. At sixteen, she was named one of the top 100 student writers out of more than 250,000 entries in the national Written & Illustrated By competition for a children’s story. It was a beginning—the earliest expression of a lifelong practice grounded in language, observation, and care for how stories are shaped and shared.

That same impulse extends beyond corporate work. Courtney is the founder of TradChattanooga, Chattanooga’s only authentic Irish traditional music session, where meaning is built collectively through listening, repetition, and shared tradition. The work reflects her belief that the strongest communication systems are participatory, durable, and rooted in practice.

Her thinking centers on communication as infrastructure: the frameworks, language, and rhythms that allow organizations and communities to grow with coherence. She believes clarity is a form of stewardship—and that building well, from the start, is an act of leadership.

Courtney’s work has been recognized internationally for its clarity, restraint, and human-centered focus. She will graduate in May 2026 with a Master’s in Communications from Wake Forest University.

She lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, focused on work that’s designed to last.