My name is Christine Radel. I am excited about the opportunity to assist you with your marketing and design needs! I was formerly the Creative Director and Managing Partner of DMP&G, a full service Austin ad agency and commercial photography studio, for 15 years. In 2007, I created Visualize in order to offer Texas businesses useful pathways to promote and enhance their marketing objectives without being tied to the high dollar fees of an ad agency. Good business is simply about people and relationships.

In the last decade, Visualize has evolved from the steadfast ‘cocktail napkin’ mantra to a solutions-driven heavy hitter by striking just the right chords to produce visible results for a very diverse range of motivated clients. It has been about going “beyond creativity” - by being strategically straightforward and true to the client. The intent of Visualize is to provide an innovative approach that achieves profitable, successful results while maintaining our commitment to outstanding service, attention and professionalism.

The Visualize objective is to guide companies in the discovery of new ways to harness their full capabilities. Visualize has innovative marketing expertise and a unique method to achieving true results. Creativity involves finding a true balance between artistic inspiration and an airtight strategy. My desire is to work side by side in order to uncover the spark that will grab the audience’s imagination, and leave a lasting impression. With over 20 years of advertising experience, I hope to have perfected the art of perspective by endeavoring to understand each individual company and their specific needs.

In an unpredictable business world, where you're constantly slammed by tight deadlines and countless moving pieces, the ability to maintain composure and resilience sets you apart. Perhaps the only thing more abundant than the ideas in our heads is our enthusiasm and willingness to make certain crucial details do not go unnoticed. Visualize brings a wide breadth of experience in Marketing Communications, Graphic Design, Offset & Digital Print Production, Advertising, PR & Media Relations, and Corporate Identity & Branding. We have worked extensively with B2B and B2C clients in a wide range of fields, including health care, banking and financial services, commercial and residential construction, software and technology companies, oil / gas industries, human services, and agriculture.

Today, our job requires strategic thinking, creativity, and exceptional communication skills, all of which compliment the expertise we have in steering clients toward a strong competitive advantage. From the inspiration stage - to the planning stage - to the ‘make it happen’ stage, we understand that making a difference in a client’s public perception is absolutely essential in the success of their company and brand.

Angela Hale is our PR & Media Relations professional with 25 years of senior executive communications, government affairs and management experience. She has been on the front lines of Texas politics working for two of the state’s top three political leaders for nearly a decade. She served as the top senior policy advisor and communications and media operations executive for Governor Greg Abbott during his first two terms as Attorney General, making her one of the highest ranking and longest serving women on General Abbott’s Executive Management Team. She also served as the top policy and communications executive for Texas House Speaker, Joe Straus. With her expertise in government affairs, crisis communications and public relations, Angela provides a variety of consulting services to corporations, professional services firms and non-profit organizations. She has worked closely with cities, chambers of commerce, economic development corporations, homeowners associations, non-profits and companies during the last three legislative sessions.

Angela is a former award winning TV reporter and veteran journalist who is an expert in crisis communications and specializes in strategic planning, business development, crisis communications, media relations, media training, community relations, government relations, video production and digital media. Her comprehensive approach integrates existing branding and marketing efforts while building meaningful relationships with public audiences.

Angela has launched numerous highly successful statewide and national media campaigns and public affairs initiatives before the Texas Legislature, the Executive Branch and other agencies of government for a variety of issues, including: military and veterans issues, transportation, water, economic development, business, consumer protection, home-owner associations, energy, oil and gas, electric co-op, insurance, crime victims’ rights, sexual assault, child abuse and domestic violence.

Before beginning her career in public service, Angela was an Emmy Award-winning television journalist who worked for large media corporations including CBS and Viacom. Hale worked for 15 years in the news business in Dallas, San Antonio, Laredo and Florida. She was one of the nation’s top political and investigative reporters and traveled the country covering the biggest stories of our lifetime including the 9-11 terrorist attacks.

Susan Risdon is our strategic communications and public affairs specialist. A lot of wonderful stories go into the building of a powerful brand. Susan has made sure these events do not go unnoticed by educating and advising clients how best to strengthen their corporate reputations through strategic public relations. With experience on both sides of the media desk, she knows reporters’ needs and expectations firsthand. With more than 15 years as a television news reporter and anchorwoman, Susan uses that extensive media background to produce web videos, PSAs, commercials and videos for special events.

She brings the experience of a seasoned journalist, writer and producer who has worked closely with corporations, law firms, advertising agencies, electric cooperatives, insurance companies, and varied non-profits, such as the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Susan was at the center of the largest child custody case in U.S. history handling international, national and local media as the spokesperson for the San Angelo domestic violence shelter. The shelter received the original call for help that caused Texas authorities to raid the polygamist compound in Eldorado and seize more than 400 children. When an unexpected crisis arises, Susan is ready to set the story straight.

As an Emmy nominated journalist at the NBC owned and operated station, KXAS-TV/NBC 5 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Susan covered the explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia over Texas. During her broadcasting career, Susan also reported on big stories with live coverage including the dragging death trial in Jasper, the American Airlines fatal crash in Little Rock, the Jarrell, Texas tornado that killed 27, the Wedgwood Baptist Church shooting in Fort Worth and the digging for mass graves in Juarez, Mexico.

Prior to joining NBC 5, Susan was a correspondent for The Texas Network (TXN) in the Dallas bureau. Susan also reported and anchored at KXAN News 36 in Austin, WVII-TV in Bangor, Maine. She started her TV reporting career at WPSD-TV in Paducah, Kentucky in 1991. Susan graduated cum laude from California State University, Northridge in 1990 receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies with a minor in Political Science.