Our Story
LINDA SZYSKOWSKI
Owner
Creative/Branding & Strategy/Copywriting/Web development/PR
Linda is an exceptionally talented design professional with over 20 years of corporate experience, 30 years of marketing, design, and project management experience, and a background in fine art. Linda is a founding partner of Creative Oxygen.
Managing the Libbey Inc. account for over 15 years, Linda has a solid expertise in foodservice. She was instrumental in developing a coordinated foodservice brand for Libbey. She also handled advertising, media placement, and new product PR for Libbey’s four Foodservice companies and Libbey’s International Division. She also worked with Libbey Retail and Corporate projects.
She has worked on numerous branding projects including The University of Toledo, The University of Toledo Foundation, St. Ursula Academy, and Sauder Manufacturing. In 2008, she helped brand, manage, and design marketing materials for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and served as part of the Toledo Makeover team. Currently Linda also works with several local organizations assisting with a full range of marketing communications activities including strategic planning, regional advertising, media planning and placement, writing services, web and video services.
Through the years, Linda has won numerous awards from the Advertising Club of Toledo, Women in Communications, Inc.; HOW Magazine; and IABC in Detroit.
Originally from Toledo, Linda graduated from Central Catholic High School and The University of Toledo where she received degrees in Business Administration and Fine Arts. She is a mother and grandmother; an avid tennis player and fan, and a member of the Toledo Tennis Club. She currently lives in Sylvania, Ohio, and is an active member of the Sylvania Chamber of Commerce.
When she is not working, playing tennis, or fishing, Linda loves to travel and realized her lifelong dreams of touring Italy and fly fishing in Colorado.