J. Lynn Fuson

J. Lynn Fuson earned a B.S. in Communications (major: Advertising) from the University of Tennessee in 1979. She completed university-required practicum studies under the guidance of Knoxville broadcasting advertising legend, Tom Jester (at WKGN-AM).

Lynn’s early career included copy writing and production supervision for television and radio. She spent nearly 7 years as Copy Chief in The Tampa Tribune’s Research and Promotion Department, including promoting the newspaper and the city of Tampa during the community’s bid to host its first National Football League Super Bowl. Her promotional poster, published in conjunction with the event, proved more popular than that year’s official Super Bowl poster and was featured prominently by broadcasting networks during their national news coverage of the event.

While at the Tribune, she was recognized and honored for her work, including

• local ADDY Awards (Tampa-St. Petersburg, the 10th largest U.S. market at the time),
• regional ADDYs (Florida and the Caribbean), and
• an International Newspaper Circulation Promotion Award in the category: daily newspapers with more than 100,000 circulation.

As a west Florida-based free-lance writer Lynn worked with many clients, including the U.S. Equestrian Team, The 1989 Volvo World Cup, Citicorp Global Security Services, and Sarasota Business magazine.

Returning to Knoxville in 1990, she wrote and edited the Knoxville Journal’s monthly High School publication, Xpress. In 1992 she came to Science Applications International Corporation’s Oak Ridge-based Engineering and Environmental Management Group where she learned technical document publishing from the inside out, working on projects ranging from multi-volume baseline risk assessments, remedial investigations, and government proposals, to geological core drilling logs, engineering evaluations/cost analyses, fact sheets, presentations, and conference presentation posters.

In 2001, she started FOURSQUARE Communications as a part-time business, and started designing and editing winning proposals for a small local business. This led to additional opportunities that continue to enable Lynn to bring together highly-qualified project teams of talented professionals with skill sets particularly suited for successfully completing a wide variety of specific assignments on an as-needed basis.

By July 2004, FOURSQUARE Communications, renamed FOURSQUARE consulting group, llc in 2004, had evolved into a full-time consulting firm, boasting a network of respected professionals who are capable of providing the expertise your firm needs, precisely when you need it.

Monica Sutton

A 1988 graduate of the University of Tennessee with a B.S. in Communications (News Editorial), Monica Sutton began her career as a newspaper reporter covering everything from the daily obituary beat to murder trials. When a fire gutted a Johnson City, Tennessee-nursing home on Christmas Eve 1989 leaving 14 dead, Monica was one of the first reporters on the scene. Less than a month later, she made the transition from newspaper reporter to director of communications for the chamber of commerce serving both Bristol, Tennessee and Virginia.

Returning closer to her native Kingston, Tennessee, she joined QualPro, Inc. in 1991 in charge of public relations and marketing working directly for its CEO. There she led a media relations campaign that resulted in a high profile, five-page article and editor's endorsement of QualPro’s methods in the March 11, 1996 issue of Forbes magazine. This article impacted QualPro’s bottom line by millions and helped shape the identity and brand of this Knoxville, Tennessee-based consultancy. The Forbes story helped QualPro gain the attention of other media such as CNN, The New York Times, Fortune, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal.

These results caught the attention of Dr. L. Barry Goss, founder and president of Pro2Serve® Professional Project Services, Inc. He asked Monica to join his young company in 1997 as director of communications while it was still in the Technology 2020 business incubator. At Pro2Serve, Monica helped position the company as a provider of engineering and technical services supporting national security. Her efforts helped it achieve two-time status as a member of the Inc. 500 and Engineering News-Record’s top 500 engineering design firms.

She also helped develop Pro2Serve’s image as a good corporate citizen through activities such as the annual University of Tennessee (UT) Pro2Serve Math Contest, which she has coordinated since the beginning, and the “Beary Special” child program for underprivileged children.

In addition to leading public and media relations activities, Monica also coordinated several multi-million-dollar winning Pro2Serve proposals for Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration contracts for facilities nationwide.

Monica left Pro2Serve in 2004 to establish an independent communications practice and still works with Pro2Serve on special projects such as the annual UT Pro2Serve Math Contest.

Monica is as comfortable leading proposals for complex multi-million dollar government projects worldwide as she is explaining technical businesses to members of the media and counseling CEOs on communications. She began working with FOURSQUARE consulting group, llc in late 2004 and became a partner in 2006.