Our Services

- Pre-meeting consulting (agenda setting, pre-read plan, etc.)
- Meeting facilitation
- Emcee services
- Panel development, preparation and facilitation
- Icebreakers and coffee/lunch breaks with purpose
- Special event plans and coordination

- Media relations strategy
- Media contact and relationship building
- Messaging for media that doesn’t read like buzz word Bingo
- Crisis management plans and training
- Feature stories, blogs, press releases, social media content
- Media training for executives, employees, site leaders and customers

- Story telling/conversation training
- Your organization newsletter
- Trade show booth worker protocol and story development
- Speech writing
- Annual reports
- Personal story set development (yes, you need to tell your own story through your resume, biography, speaker introductions and social media profile!)
Testimonials
This (media training) is something you will face in your lifetime for something. It is always good to have knowledge/training for such events.
Media session was of the most value…. the suggestions of how to interaction the media can also be used in parenting and other interpersonal communication.
AG Leaders 3
Even though I don’t work with media, I got some great pointers on how to connect with anyone using the skills Kenda taught.
AG Leaders 4
The media training had great reminders, along with encouragement to be polite but stick to what you know is right.
AG Leaders 5
The media training by Kenda provide me with some very real tips and techniques that I will use during my next public presentation scheduled for next week.
2019 AgrIInstitute Media Training
“I really like how knowledgeable Kenda was about the ag industry in general. I appreciated how she specialized the content of practice and questions to each individual’s business and sector of the ag industry.”
Media Training for Crisis Situations
Kenda did a wonderful job relating to everyone. I saw this through the participation.
Our Story

Kenda retired from Dow AgroSciences in March 2019, and founded her own communications firm, KRF Public Relations. Current clients include leading agricultural companies, agricultural industry associations, not-for-profit organizations and a variety of companies seeking media training and project management. From school board candidates to Chief Financial Officers, she is also working with individuals to help them more effectively tell their stories. Kenda firmly believes in working with partners on causes in which she believes!
Kenda earned a B.A. in public relations and an M.S. in agricultural communications from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. She is active in the community, with a focus on leadership development. A 10-year 4-Her from Elkhart County, Kenda is an advocate for youth leadership, including serving on the Indiana 4-H Foundation for a decade. Kenda is a graduate of the Indiana Ag Leadership Program, Class 11, and is a former chairperson and board member of AgrIInstitute, the organization that delivers this premiere agricultural leadership program. She has won numerous awards in the agriculture industry, including the Lea Hitchner Achievement Award, the highest honor given by CropLife America. A 2007 Women in Agriculture Leadership Award Winner and 2012 Purdue College of Agriculture Distinguished Alumni honoree, she is president of the Purdue Ag Alumni Trust Fund board and is active in Purdue activities. She has a passion for helping children, and serves on the board of Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis as its Past President, helping homeless families in crisis because every child deserves a home. She is an active volunteer leader in her community, and along with her husband, enjoys visiting their young adult children at The Ohio State University and Purdue University. You can find Kenda on Twitter @IndyKRF.