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Sioux City, Iowa, United States

Prepared and facilitated up to 48 training sessions annually, including scheduling, content creation, and logistics coordination. Delivered hour-long presentations using PowerPoint, tailoring content to different audiences. Educated the public on a wide variety of topics related to substance use including opioids, stigma, naloxone, methamphetamine, problem gambling, marijuana, and alcohol.Worked closely with community stakeholders and coalition members to advance organizational goals and foster strong partnerships. Collaborated with multiple departments internally to provide support for clients in early recovery.

Write, edit, publish and promote full-length books. Serve as publishing project manager, leading book from idea stage through publication. Past projects include:University of Berkshire Hathaway. #1 Amazon Best-Seller in Biographies of Business Professionals. 3,000+ reviews. 4.5 star rating. Remarkable retelling of the lessons, wisdom, and investment strategies handed down personally from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger to shareholders during 30 years of their closed-door annual meetings. Beating Bronchiectasis. Top #10 Amazon Best-Seller across five categories including Respiratory Diseases. 600+ reviews. 4.2 star rating. One man’s personal story of overcoming hopelessness in the face of rapidly-deteriorating health and being written off by the best doctors. Responsibilities and roles: • Project Management: Worked with named authors to establish book development process and executed against timeline to write book, release with comprehensive promotions and manage follow-on activities. • Content Development: Wrote original book content through combination of conducting long-form interviews and independently researching topic. Selected and managed freelancers to create supporting book content included cover, website and photographs. Managed rights for foreign language translation into Chinese, German and Spanish. • Marketing and Promotion: Developed and led campaigns that achieved books’ current status and success: 5,000 print copies sold and 23,000 eBooks downloaded. Surpassed sales targets by crafting promotional materials, leading PR, directing online advertising, and managing social media outreach.

Produce and direct development of media programming in multiple channels. Serve as publishing project manager, leading book from idea stage through publication. Past projects include:International Dental Consulting Company [Team Training Institute]. Created content and managed user experience for company’s website, membership program, iOS app, video and audio learning programs, information products, ebooks, and blog.Podcast Creation. Created podcast with 71,000 downloads focused on business principles, management, client experience, and team building. Created podcast with almost 20,000 downloads focused on equity investing, personal development and management.Responsibilities and roles: • Project Management: Identified media opportunities and managed end-to-end development. • Content Development: Developed SEO-optimized content suited to each medium and target audience. • Marketing and Promotion: Created unique promotion plans based on each market’s and client’s needs.

The Society International is a high level personal growth & development company owned by 8-time New York Times best-selling author, Neil Strauss. I developed educational content and wrote newsletters. I also ran teleconferences with notable guests including best-selling author Robert Greene.

Sergeant Bluff, Ia

Promoted to coach and manage and coach team of Nike customer service agents.

Sergeant Bluff, Ia

Provided telephone service support to Nike customers.

Planned and coordinated 23 local community events to promote cultural understanding and diversity. Collaborated with community agencies, volunteers, city government and local media.