Envision Charlotte is a unique public private plus collaboration that is leading projects for the City of Charlotte around sustainability and smart city. Envision Charlotte recently embarked on our most ambitious project to date to become the leading US City in the Circular Economy. As part of this initiative, we opened the Innovation Barn in 2021, a project with the City of Charlotte as the hub for our city’s transition to the Circular Economy. The goals of the project are to lead Charlotte to a zero waste city, a resilient and healthy city, an innovative city of the future and a city that has opportunities for all. The Innovation Barn currently has 8 partners on site both non-profit and for profit all working in areas that support the overall goals. In addition, the barn showcases several working closed loop systems and produces innovations around material use. As Executive Director I am responsible for all fundraising, partnership development and maintenance, oversight of all program development and design, and general operations of Innovation Barn and other programs. In 2015, Envision Charlotte partnered with the Obama Whitehouse on their Smart Cities Initiative to create and produce Envision America. This program brought 20 cities over 2 years to Charlotte to participate in a smart city bootcamp. My role in the project was to design the workshop, recruit all financial partners to fund the program, oversee the selection of the cities and manage the success of the event. Envision Charlotte started as a Clinton Global Commitment in 2011 to reduce energy use by 20% over 5 years in Charlotte’s urban core. Envision Charlotte worked with 61 of the 64 largest commercial buildings and saw a 19.2% reduction and $26 million is savings. I was hired in 2013 to lead this effort and design programs/partnerships to help achieve this success. In addition to our energy program, we added the pillars of air, water and waste and programs to advance sustainability.

Tank's Tap is a beer bar that features local craft beer located in 7th Street Public Market.

Consultant - Work with companies on the business development and marketing strategies. Services include community involvement plans, client identification and win strategies, marketing plans including digital services (SEO, PPC and Social media), information gathering and overall market analysis.In addition to consulting, created, implemented and sold FABO - an art gallery, coffee shop, wine and beer bar.

Drive the development and implementation of the Charlotte market sales strategy. Accountable for achieving all sales goals for the Charlotte area. Responsible for successful branding and marketing in Charlotte area. Successfully established a market share in Charlotte with a sales increase from $20 million to over $535 million in 2 years. Research and identify markets to penetrate and define market share goals for the Charlotte Region. Created and lead the Best Value Coalition which was an industry initiative to educate the public sector on the CM@Risk delivery method to increase our addressable market, resulted in a 40% increase. Assumed responsibility of transition leader for the southeast division through the purchase of Centex Construction to Balfour Beatty Construction, maintained less than 1% turnover throughout transition. Implemented Celebrate!Centex an initiative to increase retention.  Responsible for all charitable giving in the Charlotte area

Responsible for achieving sales goals in membership sales, advertising sales and the total revenue campaign (fundraising). Provided leadership and direction to a staff of eight sales representatives and over 150 volunteers who had direct responsibility for exceeding personal sales goals and exceeding previous total revenue campaign. Key contributor on the senior leadership team. Exceeded all sales goals which resulted in setting national records for the total revenue campaign. Designed and implemented new products for volunteers to sell, increasing sales volumes by 10%. Designed and implemented new software program to enable volunteers to access all necessary campaign information, team and personal sales records online, which reduced staff time by 20%. Created new products to increase sales of sponsorships including Main Street, additional $100k in revenue.

Responsible for starting the NC/SC territory and exceeding all sales goals. Managed office and personnel for the Carolinas territory.  Successfully started the Carolinas territory, the 15th territory added, and turned it into the most profitable territory in US. Increased sales in territory from $200,000 to over $1,000,000, which represented 10% of the company’s total sales. Maintained the highest repeat client base in the company. Designed new products that allowed us to penetrate new markets such as menu products which lead to acquiring Peet’s Coffee and Tea as an account. This account represented one of the companies largest in volume and repeat sales. Achieved results by expanding into new markets and having more accounts than any other sales representative, by 20%. Evaluated and purchased all advertising in market to increase brand.