Nancy Hatch Woodward

Nancy Hatch Woodward has an MA in English/Professional Writing and is a writer
and teacher with over 15 years experience in corporate and educational settings.

Her professional background includes serving as writer, editor, and communications expert for a number of large companies, including BlueCross BlueShield of
Tennessee, Health Advocate, Inc., and Unum. In these roles, she has developed brochures, newsletters, fact sheets, white papers, reports, PowerPoint presentations, seminars, web materials, manager toolboxes, webinars, and training courses.

In addition, Nancy has published more than 650 articles on health care, human resources, work/life balance, diversity, and employment law in over 40 publications, and has been a long-term and frequent contributor to publications with ThomsonReuters, the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), Business and Legal Reports, and Bureau of Business Practices.  She is also co-author of Eldercare: Caring for Your Aging Parents (National Institute of Business Management 2002), available on Amazon.com.

Her work has been cited in a number of professional business books: The Handbook of Employee Benefits; The Sentinel CEO: Perspectives on Security, Risk, and Leadership in a Post-9/11 Worldl Managing Compensation (and Understand it Too): A Handbook for the Perplexed; Advertising and Promotion: An Integrated Marketing Communications Perspective; Indispensable Employees; Human Resource Management; and E-Business Legal Handbook: 2003.  

Her work has also appeared in the following publications:

• 9th Circuit Watch, Bureau of Business Practices
• African American Encyclopedia Supplement, Salem Press
• American News Service, syndicated news service
• Baylor School Magazine
• Best Practices in HR, Business and Legal Reports
• Best Practices in Comp & Benefits, Business and Legal Reports
• Business Start Ups
• Chicken Soup
• Choice, PPFA
• CityScope
• Commerce Magazine
• Disability, Leave, and Absence Reporter
• Drug Benefit Trends
• East Tennessee Business Journal
• Employee Termination Law Bulletin, ThomsonReuters
• Encyclopedia of World Biographies, Gale Press
• Encyclopedia of American Industries, Gale Press
• Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries, Gale Press
• Enrich Magazine
• Fair Employment Practice Guidelines
• GEICO Direct
• Georgia Magazine
• Health & Money, Successful Retirement Publishers
• HealthScope
• Hecate, an international women's journal
• Hiring and Retaining the Best
• HR Briefing, Bureau of Business Practices
• HR Compliance Law Bulletin, ThomsonReuters
• HR Magazine, SHRM
• HRNext, online HR site
• HR News, SHRM
• HR Global Focus, SHRM
• HR Superstore
• HR Wire, ThomsonReuters
• ICON, American Society of Interior Designers
• Independent School Magazine, NAIS
• Keyes Quarterly, Keyes Automotive
• Ladies Home Journal
• Los Angeles Downtown News
• LawCrossing.com
• Massage Magazine
• McCallie News
• McCann Communications
• Notable Hispanic Women, Gale Press
• Payroll 2000, Bureau of Business Practices
• Physicians Practice Digest
• Pro2Net, an online source for business
• Robinson Today
• Strategic Health Care Marketing
• The Secured Lender, Commercial Finance Association
• Wittenberg Review, Wittenberg University

The Creative Touch

Nancy is the founder of ChattaRosa, a writing group that offers support, critiquing, and education for women writers in Chattanooga for over two years.

Moreover, Nancy has published poems, short stories, and essays in publications such as Alternative Press Magazine, Short Story Magazine, Seeding the Snow, Four and Twenty, and Working Mother.  Her poem, "Distractions," was one of the winners in Writer's Digest's 2009 Poetry-a-Day contest.  In addition, she has an essay coming up in the Spring 2012 Southern Cultures.

Awards

2004 Incline Award. Lookout Chapter PRSA. "Walking Works." BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.

2005 Incline Award. Lookout Chapter PRSA. "Corporate Mentoring Program." BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.

2005 Best of Blue Award. BlueCross BlueShield Association. "Corporate Mentoring Program."

Michael G. Lundy, MD, Memorial Award for Excellence in Research, Development, or Analysis in Science. "Managing Stress in the Workplace." BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.