Kurt Vanderah Email & Phone Number

Dyer, IN, US

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Working on the confidential, vendor‑free membership organization for people leading employer brand and recruitment marketing at the world’s biggest companies.Talent Marketing Board is part of the Board.org family, where we build vendor-free, peer-to-peer communities.We surround them with people that have similar jobs, at similar organizations, facing.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Board.org creates confidential, vendor-free membership communities for people leading change at the world's biggest companies.Why? Because helping leaders make things better at these massive organizations makes a whole lot of good for millions of people.Our communities support the leaders of social media marketing and communications, corporate social.

Rosemont, IL

Built community -- from strategy to execution to daily management -- by connecting and uniting stakeholders in the dairy industry. I served as the community manager for the Dairy Hub, a private social network providing a home for conversation and resources for dairy farmers, marketers, and industry executives.

Chicago

• Strategized and coordinated activities for SocialMedia.org, the community for social media leaders at more than 360 of the world's greatest brands. Connected thousands of big-brand social media marketing and.
• Developed and enhanced our offerings from start-up stage to full-fledged community
• Attracted, recruited, and developed elite community managers
• Constantly reinforced our customer-focused, "surprise and delight" mentality
• Facilitated and moderated keynote interview sessions at the Brands-Only Summit

• Assisted with overall station strategy and on-air sound, including when WGN was without a Program Director. Managed entire producer staff and weekend air talent at Chicago's top-rated radio station. Brought departments.
• Honored as WGN Radio's Employee of the Year, 2005
• Ran the Emergency Closing Center, the system that announces all Chicago's school/work closings due to weather

Chicago

• Executive producer for award-winning The Kathy & Judy Show, Chicago's top-rated midday program. Set hosts up for success by screening phone calls, contributing on-air, and basically keeping the train on the tracks for.
• Honored as WGN Radio's Employee of the Year, 2000
• Produced annual listener conventions for as many as 1200 fans
• Managed programming internship program

• From 1993-95, hosted four-hour afternoon drive talk show at Champaign-Urbana's news/talk station.
• Created and executed a charitable mini-golf pro-am, raising awareness and thousands of dollars for Make-A-Wish Foundation
• Responsible for all show elements, from strategy to production to execution
• Developed station's first internship program, providing training and education for college studentsFrom 1991-93, served as reporter and morning news anchor, including story picked up by CBS News' national radio newscast.

• Managed staff of more than a dozen anchors and reporters to provide news updates on student-run commercial FM station.
• Strategized and coordinated statewide coverage of 1990 elections
• Student representative board member for Illini Media Company
• Won UPI Award for news promotion