Kara Williams is the Owner and Chief Client Strategist at The Marketing Collective, a consulting firm specializing in integrated marketing, strategic communication, content creation, and graphic design. Through intelligent planning, meaningful messaging, creative solutions, and flawless execution The Marketing Collective uses strategic marketing to solve problems. Prior to starting The Marketing Collective, Kara worked for Greater Cincinnati marketing agencies, where she developed and implemented solutions for businesses ranging in size from Fortune 500 to start-ups with a one-person staff. She also served as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Communication at Vision 2015. In this role, she conceptualized and implemented some of Northern Kentucky’s most successful community initiatives. Her passion for community improvement, combined with her business savvy tactics and disciplined determination to find results-based solutions has elevated her to being a key thought leader in the realm of collective impact and community change. Kara is a graduate of Leadership Northern Kentucky and is past chair of the leadership program. She is actively involved with numerous volunteer activities associated with Northern Kentucky University, the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Chambers of Commerce, and a variety of other civic groups. She was also a member of the Vision 2015 Leadership Team during the visioning process in 2005. She is a Business Courier Forty Under 40 Leader of Distinction, an Outstanding Women of Northern Kentucky, and an Outstanding Alumni from the College of Informatics at Northern Kentucky University.She resides in Union, Kentucky with her husband, their two daughters, and Golden Retriever.