At WDGC, Katie’s responsibilities extend beyond marketing. She also assumes prime responsibility for selected account relations, interfaces with clients for feedback on service improvement, participates on consulting projects by obtaining customized information on areas from field contacts, provides market intelligence to help WDG Consulting maintain a leadership edge, and ensures that all clients are receiving service beyond expectations. In addition, she guides WDG Consulting clients into transitioning other advisory services from strategic alliance partners.

Katie developed her expertise in the trenches of project consulting. In fact, a portion of her time is still expended on location advisory projects--to still keep abreast of the latest trends. Among companies that have been advised by Katie Burdorf are ADP, Blue Shield of CA, Apria Health Insurance, The Children's Place, Diamond Credit Union, Metcar (carbon graphite products), Indo-MIM (precision metals), Oriental Trading, St. Nersess Seminary, Target, American Express, and Wickes Lumber.

Ms. Burdorf attended MacMurray College and Seton Hall University. She is a 33+ year member in the industry's premier trade/professional organization, CoreNet Global.  A former member of the Strategic Leadership Forum's NYC Chapter, IEDC (International Economic Development Council), and Southern Economic Development Council (SEDC).  Within CoreNet Global she is a past 12-year board member of the New York City Chapter and a past 3-year board member of the New Jersey Chapter.

Ms. Burdorf has authored articles for Business Week, The Corporate Real Estate Executive and Call Center Solutions and taught courses on business location at the Institute for Corporate Real Estate and the University of Georgia. She has also been a featured speaker at CoreNet Global, NAIOP, IEDC, as well as various state economic development conferences. Her topics focus on corporate location decision-making, leadership, site selection and economic development issues. Ms. Burdorf received a Leadership Recognition Award from the NJ Chapter of CoreNet Global and a Chapter Foundation Award from the organization’s Tri-State Chapters.
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