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TL;DR: community builder with a knack for sales funnel spelunking, pain point finding, tough question asking, partnership creation and execution, and high EQAt Mainshares, I'm part of a team committed to educating, equipping, and supporting the next generation of American SMB operators. I build deep relationships within operator communities (veterans, EMBA and MBA students, trades folks, etc.) and individual operators and am passionate about demystifying the process of buying and running a business. Main Street's revitalization can't happen if we don't empower the next generation of local owner-operators to take the reins from retiring owners, and Mainshares provides the connections, capital, and SMB expertise our membership needs to not just successfully buy and build their own businesses, but generate a ROMS ("Return on Main Street") that brings wealth, opportunity, and growth back to local communities.If you're an aspiring operator yourself or just curious about buying and running businesses, feel free to reach out and say hello: scott@mainshares.com.In my spare time I co-invest in SMBs and VC-backed companies with my wife through our angel fund Hieronymus Capital (she is the brains, I am the biz dev), write poetry and fiction about rural Texas (jscottbrownlee.com), play sandlot baseball for the Austin Jardineros, and closely follow trends in the digital asset space.Past Angel, VC Fund, and Search Fund Investments: Orb (https://www.withorb.com/), Cohart (www.cohart.com), Allspring AI (https://www.tryallspring.com/), Puzzle (https://puzzle.io/), Activus Capital Partners Fund 2 (www.activuscapital.com), Wharton's Chestnut Street Ventures 2021-2022 Fund (https://www.av.vc/funds/chestnutstreet), and Data Lake (https://data-lake.co/)Interests: SMB and Search Fund Education and Research, Growth Hacking, Business Development, Sales, Admissions Coaching (esp. business school), Learning & Talent Development, Executive Recruiting & Coaching, Talent Development, Human Capital Strategy, Poetry, Baseball, Pizza, and Queso
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Host Champions Growth Lead - AmericasAirbnbAustin, Tx, Us
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Senior Manager - Supply AcquisitionAirbnbAustin, Tx, Us
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Operator Network Growth And PartnershipsMainshares Nov 2024 - PresentAt Mainshares, I'm part of a team committed to educating, equipping, and supporting the next generation of American SMB operators. I build deep relationships within operator communities (veterans, EMBA and MBA students, trades folks, etc.) and individual operators and am passionate about demystifying the process of buying and running a business. Main Street's revitalization can't happen if we don't empower the next generation of local owner-operators to take the reins from retiring owners, and Mainshares provides the connections, capital, and SMB experience our membership needs to not just successfully buy and build their own businesses, but generate a ROMS ("Return on Main Street") that brings wealth, opportunity, and growth back to local communities.If you're an aspiring operator yourself or just curious about buying and running businesses, feel free to reach out and say hello: scott@mainshares.com. -
Head Of GrowthFortuna Admissions Jun 2023 - Nov 2024Cambridge, Massachusetts, UsLeveraging 10+ years experience in higher ed. admissions and career coaching, I connected with potential Fortuna clients as well as HR, L&D, and talent development leaders at companies with mature analyst->MBA talent pipelines and other organizations interested in providing admissions and career consulting services to their employees. I also set the strategy for entry into new business lines to position Fortuna for another 10+ years of best-in-class client experiences. In 2023-2024, I launched multiple school partnerships, growth-hacked a new coaching vertical for undergraduate clients, and was the second-highest performer on the sales team despite no referral clients as a new team member and coach.95% of my MBA clients gained acceptance to their target schools, including Stanford, Wharton, CBS, Booth, MIT, and Kellogg, with scholarships totaling $400K+. I regularly appeared on Poets&Quants live streams and wrote extensively on topics related to bschool and law school admissions.Prior to Fortuna, I also worked for Stacy Blackman Consulting and Accepted.com. Key wins for both are shared further down in the "Experience" portion of my LinkedIn profile. -
Associate Director - Enterprise Account Management And Strategic GrowthForte Foundation Mar 2022 - Jun 2023Austin, Tx, UsI directly supported 20 enterprise accounts ($850K+ in value) to help their talent acquisition leads recruit, retain, and advance the next generation of women leaders (including Bose, Anheuser-Busch, Pegasystems, Ecolab, Siemens, Neiman Marcus, and Chevron). Additional Forté talent solutions I managed / helped build included the Global Board Ready Women executive search initiative, resume book sales and access, and our Career Strategist and Rise leadership development programs for early-career and mid-career women. I also regularly partnered with Forté Director of Professional Programs Amy Orlov and PNC Bank SVP Joshua Stewart to facilitate gender equity L&D training and programming to corporations and top-ranked business schools. Past clients and partners included Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Amazon, Siemens, TD Bank, American Banker, Walker & Dunlop, Bayer, Putnam Investments, ZS, Pew Research, Estee Lauder, Wharton, Yale, Darden, Arizona State, Wisconsin, Florida, UT-Austin, and Vanderbilt. -
Program Manager - Community Growth And Corporate TrainingForte Foundation Feb 2020 - Feb 2022Austin, Tx, UsThe programs I managed in this role included our Graduway alumni networking platform, Global Board Ready Women executive search offering, GradLeaders resume book recruiting platform, annual fall and spring Virtual Career Fairs via Hopin, Women Lead Webinar Series, and Coffee & Careers Webinar series, which together saw 12,000+ virtual attendees per year.I also played a key role in scaling our Allies for Gender Equity Initiative into a new six-figure business line, which grew to include workshops, our multi-day Inclusive Leadership Program, and our multi-part corporate gender equity allyship curriculum. As an L&D facilitator, I presented 30+ workshops to hundreds of executives seeking to become more effective gender equity allies, as well as hundreds of MBA students and faculty.
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Cofounder And PartnerNetworth Careers Llc 2020 - 2023Networth is a boutique career coaching consultancy that provides strategic support to professionals looking to transform their careers, with specialties in lawyer career-switchers and international professionals seeking employment in the US. We emphasize a unique, relationship-based model that empowers our clients and helps us build connections with them that last a lifetime. Visit www.networth.work to learn more.Prior to my move to Fortuna Admissions, we engaged in MBA admissions work as well. Signature client acceptances: Chicago Booth (60K scholarship), UT-Austin (60K scholarship), Emory (60K scholarship), and Vanderbilt. 100% of clients applying to UT-Austin accepted. Worked with 4 pro bono underrepresented applicants in 2021 with 75% bschool acceptance rate.
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Career & Talent Development ConsultantMccombs School Of Business, The University Of Texas At Austin 2017 - 2020Austin, Tx, UsAs the Consortium Lead for our advising team with a passion for DE&I initiatives, I onboarded and supported all McCombs MBA underrepresented Consortium students (40+) each summer and coached them to roles at Coca-Cola, BCG, Playstation, Google, Nike, Facebook, Amazon, and elsewhere. I also served as communications and resume / cover letter lead for the Career Management team (launching our first instance of VMock) in addition to directing the Career Fellows Program, for which I hired, trained, and managed 45+ second-year MBA peer advisors. With my proposed rebranding of our Peer Advisor Program to Career Fellows, we achieved a 100% increase in applicants in 2019 and brought heightened visibility to the team and our coaching work. In this role I also attended National Black and ROMBA, supporting attending MBA students.My passion project was creating “Outreach Lab," an e-learning tool to help job seekers take a data-driven approach to networking and the job search process. I also taught a career success / talent management course and built strong relationships with full-time MBA students via one-on-one coaching sessions, resume and cover letter review, networking guidance, personal and professional brand creation, and targeted recruiting advice.I enjoyed regularly connecting with recruiters across all industry and function focuses, with particular interests in the Austin startup and blockchain scenes, as well as tech, marketing, VC, and PE.In spring 2019, I received the Team Builder Award given annually to an individual McCombs Career Management coach from across undergraduate and graduate career services for demonstrating an ongoing commitment to collaboration and connection amongst career coaches. -
Mba Admissions ConsultantStacy Blackman Consulting 2017 - 2018Los Angeles, Ca, UsI provided clients with expert MBA admissions advice, strategic guidance, and brand development support based on my time as an Admissions Committee member at Wharton. My clients were accepted to Harvard (50% scholarship), Wharton, Booth, Kellogg, Columbia (full scholarship), Duke, Cornell, UVA, and other top MBA programs. 80% success rate with Wharton applicants. -
Law School, Med School, And Undergrad Admissions ConsultantAccepted 2017 - 2018Needham, Ma, UsI coached clients as an admissions expert for Accepted.com, where I supported undergraduate, law school, med school, and graduate school applicants based on 8 years of work as a higher ed. insider, former Admissions Committee member for NYU's Post-Baccalaureate Prehealth Studies Program, and prelaw and premed advisor. Signature win: international Chinese client accepted to Georgetown Law with a 163 LSAT. -
Core Faculty MemberBrooklyn Poets Inc 2015 - 2018Brooklyn, Ny, UsI created and taught an online course called "MFA Bootcamp" for three consecutive years that led aspiring MFA applicants (~30% underrepresented) through the process of building the strongest application portfolios possible. My students were accepted by The University of Michigan (top program in the country), NYU, Syracuse University, The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, The University of Oregon, Rutgers - Newark, The University of Florida, The University of Miami, The University of Colorado-Boulder, UC Riverside, The New School, Stony Brook Southampton, Bennington College's Low Residency Program, VCFA's Low Residency Program, and elsewhere at rates 4-5 times higher than the national average. -
Senior Admissions CounselorThe Wharton School 2015 - 2017Philadelphia, Pa, UsI conducted 300+ hour-long interviews with applicants as the lead Admissions Committee interviewer for the Wharton MBA Program for Executives, the world's top-ranked executive MBA talent pipeline. I also supported large recruiting events in NYC, DC, and Philadelpia, sat on the Admissions Committee, evaluated hundreds of applications each year, and conducted 500+ informational chats with prospective students to recruit top executives in all major functions and industries. Prior to departure, I wrote one of the two primary essay questions used for the 2017-2018 application cycle. -
Assistant Director Of The University Learning Center | Academic AdvisorNew York University 2014 - 2015New York, Ny, UsI supported ULC Director Soomie Han in the day-to-day running of the ULC while supervising and providing all HR support for a staff of 58 student tutors and information desk staff. Simultaneously, I advised undergraduates in the College of Arts & Science (caseload of 250+ students) and taught a college and career success course to two sections of 36 freshmen through NYU's College Cohort Program. -
Prelaw And Premed Academic AdvisorNew York University 2013 - 2014New York, Ny, UsI guided hundreds of undergraduate prelaw and premed NYU students in the College of Arts & Science through the graduate school application process and served as an Admissions Committee member for NYU's Post-Baccalaureate Prehealth Studies Program, as well as the interviewer and committee letter writer for 50+ high-achieving premed students who gained admission to NYU SOM, Weill Cornell Medicine, and elsewhere.
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Writers In The Public Schools Fellow | Adjunct ProfessorNew York University 2012 - 2014New York, Ny, UsAs a fully-funded MFA graduate student in NYU's Creative Writing Program, I studied with Pulitzer Prize winners Yusef Komunyakaa (thesis advisor) and Sharon Olds and taught poetry as an artist-in-residence at P.S. 110 (The Florence Nightingale School) on Manhattan's Lower East Side to 2nd and 5th grade students. I was also an Adjunct Professor and taught multiple sections of Introduction to Creative Writing (poetry and fiction) at NYU. Since graduation, I have published four prize-winning books of poetry (Requiem for Used Ignition Cap, Highway or Belief, Ascension, and On the Occasion of the Last Old Camp Meeting in Llano County) and am a core faculty member for Brooklyn Poets, an NYC-based poetry non-profit.
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Program CoordinatorThe University Of Texas At Austin 2011 - 2012Austin, Tx, UsWhile working in the School of Undergraduate Studies under Director of Assessment Leslie Kavanaugh, Assistant Dean Cassandre Giguere, and Harvard Postdoc Julie Schell, I conducted grant planning and logistical support for a $150K Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board grant to improve Texas teachers' use and understanding of data via creation of a web-based resource (Making Decisions with Data), as well as a $1M Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board grant to support college and career readiness in the State of Texas (CRAfT). Along the way, I supported assessment efforts for the School of Undergraduate Studies, planned and executed a large conference, and conducted grant research and press release writing. -
Assistant To The Director Of CommunicationsUnc School Of Information And Library Science 2009 - 2011Chapel Hill , Nc, UsI supported Director Wanda Monroe with strategic communications efforts for the School of Information and Library Science (SILS), served on the website redevelopment team, interviewed faculty and students, wrote press releases, filmed presentations, and supported development fundraising efforts at SILS while a MSLS graduate student.
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Scott Brownlee Education Details
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New York UniversityPoetry -
University Of North Carolina At Chapel HillLibrary Science
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The University Of Texas At AustinEnglish (Minor In Education)
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Llano High School
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Scott Brownlee's current role is Host Champions Growth Lead - Americas.
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Scott Brownlee attended New York University, University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, The University Of Texas At Austin, Llano High School.
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