Tenacious. Hard working. Committed.

Franci Richardson Ellement learned quickly from Editor Bello that the key to beating the competition was found in the direction he’d utter with many a story assignment: “Leave No Stone Unturned, Ma’am.” Today, she has adopted that philosophy as a way to run a successful business.

Richardson Ellement runs The ReGroup which currently represents, among other clients, TILL Inc. (Toward Independent Living and Learning), one of the largest social service agencies in eastern Massachusetts that helps people with developmental delays. She also represents Abby Park, a restaurant in Milton that promises to catapult Milton from the fifth best place to live in the country, according to Money Magazine, to No. 1. She also represents Attorney Robert L. Jubinville, who is making a bid for the District 2 Governor’s Council. And she has represented the Bombay Club restaurant as it transitioned from Harvard Square to Boston’s South End.

Previously, as second in charge of the American office of an international company, Richardson Ellement helped the company avoid the spotlight when a national story of potentially devastating consequences broke.

Richardson Ellement worked her way up from reporting for a twice weekly newspaper in Derry, NH, to writing for an array of well-known publications that include The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and New York Daily News as well as several magazines.

Her work has always reflected a push for change. She co-wrote a series on wrongful convictions that led to changes in state law. That series was considered by the Pulitzer Prize Committee. Her coverage of the jailhouse murder of defrocked priest, John J. Geoghan, led to the establishment of a governor-appointed blue ribbon panel to study safety within the Massachusetts Department of Correction.

Richardson Ellement is a licensed social worker with a master’s degree from Smith College in Northampton, Mass and an undergraduate degree in journalism/sociology from University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She lives with her family in Milton, Mass.