Prior to starting ALIST, Amanda Mailey worked for a variety of advertising agencies advising senior leaders at Nike, Microsoft, Adobe, Visa, and Intel. Her job was to listen to their challenges, recommend solutions to achieve their goals, scope the assignments, and lead diverse teams to get it done. Directing across the full marketing mix, Amanda became a skilled cross-functional leader who not only knew all the marketing levers, but more importantly how to connect the dots for optimal performance. Overlay her brand building and storytelling talents, you get an invaluable resource for any leader defining actionable paths to achieve marketing and business goals.Amanda established ALIST in 2016 to connect BIPOC owned brands to BIPOC creative professionals. By 2020, ALIST specialized in marketing and business solutions for the fastest growing demographic of entrepreneurs, women of color. By 2022, they developed a subsidizing revenue stream of annual community donors and sponsors to invest back into their WSW shared economy among 500+ women founders.In addition, Amanda consults with orgs wanting to better serve the small biz BIPOC community in Portland, provides sliding scale rates for coaching WOC entrepreneurs, launched a grant/investment program in 2022, hosts women supporting women (WSW) founder meetups, advocates & promotes women owned businesses on social media, and works as a cross functional digital strategist performing discovery assignments for orgs looking to identify the gaps & opportunities in their current systems to build towards something better.Keywords: brand builder, connector, facilitator, cross-functional leader, female mentor, change agent, business consultant, corporate strategist, communications expert, goal setter, go-to-market planner, consumer insight translator, brief developer, campaign planner, content marketer, loyalty builder, demand generator, storyteller.