Becky Sheetz-Runkle is a business author and writer, speaker, strategic marketer and communicator, and martial artist. She co-founded Q2 Marketing, a technology marketing agency, which was sold to the Borenstein Group in 2011. Becky has 20 years of experience in communications and marketing strategy. She’s a recognized authority on critical topics for women in business. She’s a former Washington Business Journal columnist who is frequently published in and interviewed by national print, web, radio and TV media.

Becky is a women’s business speaker, sought out by corporations, academia and women’s business groups. (She speaks to men too, but “women’s business speaker” is excellent Google juice.)

She has spent her career measurably driving revenue for companies in the high tech, professional services and government contracting sectors. Her areas of expertise are in developing rock-solid corporate communications and marketing plans, exhilarating strategic messaging, targeted and meaningful PR, and compelling copy.

Becky trains seriously in the martial arts. She holds the rank of Grand Master and Menkyo Kaiden in Sho Bushido Ryu Jujitsu. She runs the Woodbridge, Virginia Dojo of Sho Bushido Ryu. She holds black belt ranks in three other martial arts. Her experiences versus much larger and stronger opponents has revealed much to her about innovation and perseverance to overcome adversity, and how to defeat adversaries by using superior strategy.

Her hobbies include fitness, writing, traveling, gardening and enjoying animals (she’s a big fan of pit bulls). She’s also on a quest to find the world’s perfect beer, which she thinks she’s found in Duck Rabbit’s Milk Stout, but she’s not a quitter. Becky is an avid student of history and follows politics more closely than is healthy. She believes we’re living in a period of television renaissance and enjoys witty, well-written shows like Grey’s Anatomy and Arrested Development to name just two.

In 2011 she received the 40 Under 40 Award from the Washington Business Journal. Her work received the Summit Creative Award for Best-in-Class Government Web Site and the MarCom Creative Award for outstanding achievement in marketing and communications in 2005.

She lives in Woodbridge, VA, with her husband, David, the cat who would prefer to be anonymous, and Buster, the pit bull the anonymous cat terrorizes. She’s a member of Toastmasters International and the Authors Guild and is an ordained deacon at Lake Ridge Baptist Church. She graduated with Honors from Temple University and has BA degrees in political science and history.

Contact her at bsheetz (at) beckysheetz.com.

At a Sun Tzu for Women book signing.

At the Washington Business Journal 40 Under 40 Awards, Photo Courtesy Washington Business Journal

Jujitsu versus an armed attacker.