Stephanie Heinatz established Consociate Media in Gloucester in 2011, offering marketing, public relations, and communications to a wide range of clients.

Through a blend of marketing, media, and management techniques, the female-owned business “uses the rich traditions of storytelling and modern communications to help market businesses,” said Heinatz.

“When you ask what triumphs Consociate Media has had over its first 10 years in business, I point to the people,” Heinatz said. “Every single time a person chooses Consociate Media to tell its story, to work for their business, we consider it a triumph. Every single time a person chooses to work for Consociate Media, to tell other people’s stories, we consider it a triumph. Why? Because business is personal, on every level.”

An Army brat, Heinatz was born in Germany, where she spent most of childhood, then moved to Gloucester in the early 1990s. A graduate of Christopher Newport University, she has a background in journalism, m...