Lauren Bacon Email & Phone Number

I work with growth teams at people-first tech companies to align their marketing, sales, and product strategies with their goals and customers.

Vancouver, BC

I've worked with dozens of leaders in the business and nonprofit sectors to work through challenges such as:* staffing issues* marketing strategy and execution* personal productivity* developing business processes* navigating difficult conversations * finding product-market fit* becoming more effective leaders* scaling up* succession and exit planningIn.

I teach self-paced video courses that help entrepreneurs and creative/web professionals build successful careers and businesses. * Planning a Web Design Portfolio: Getting a Job has helped over 110,000 web designers build more effective portfolios for their job searches.* Web Career Clinic Weekly has helped more than 100,000 web professionals build a.

Greater Boston Area

• Responsible for building and maintaining relationships with over 200 podcast publishers, including The New York Times, PRX, Radiotopia, The Washington Post, Salon, Panoply, etc. with an eye to expanding adoption of.
• Prioritized a large outreach list by calculating potential audience reach, likelihood of adoption, and brand recognition.
• Through verbal conversations and written/visual materials, articulated RadioPublic’s value proposition and complex technical concepts to people without a technical background
• Performed market research for the product team, to help RadioPublic become integral to podcasters' audience development, marketing, and business goals
• Collaborated with a blended local-distributed team of 10 during the company’s start-up, launch, and user acquisition phases to deploy, refine, and promote new features in an agile, lean, rapid-deployment context

Boulder, Colorado

Kindara is the best-designed app I've ever seen for charting women's fertility cycles, and empowering women with clarity and insights about the connections between those cycles and their overall health. I advised Kindara's founders on positioning, product design, marketing, and team building; I also provided executive coaching through scaling, fundraising.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• I co-founded this boutique digital agency to support organizations working for social good develop meaningful relationships with their communities online. Starting as a two-person partnership, we grew over time to a.
• Conceiving, designing, delivering and maintaining hundreds of websites with a specialization in complex, content-rich websites for organizations with a knowledge-sharing mission — including think tanks, libraries.
• Maintaining long-term client relationships that extended beyond individual projects, with an eye to ongoing analysis, testing, and iteration as critical to successful outcomes.
• Facilitating collaborative research and design processes across diverse stakeholder groups including staff, leadership teams, board members, and end users, to gather input from all perspectives; and developing.
• Building a sustainable, consistently profitable company at an average annual growth rate of 137%, eventually supporting nine full-time staff while prioritizing reasonable work weeks, achievable goals, lifelong.
• Taking concrete actions to put our values into practice, such as signing on as a Living Wage employer, offering a "no overtime" policy to employees, protecting 10% of staff time to work on projects of their choosing.

Co-author of The Boss Ladies blog, which offered perspectives on small business and values-driven leadership.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Coordinated, marketed and facilitated meetups for local entrepreneurs who identified as "grassroots" -- boutique retailers selling handcrafted local stuff, smarty-pants consultants, designers making the world more beautiful, cool restaurateurs, wicked crafters, high-tech visionaries and so on. Our focus was on peer learning, networking, support & real.

Vancouver, Canada Area

As the first hire at Communicopia's predecessor company, Envolve Communications, I wore many hats, including front-end developer, production designer, project manager, and web strategist. After the company's rebrand a few months later, my official title was Project Manager, and I managed our team of 12 along with our clients to coordinate all aspects of.

English, Gender Studies

Activities and Societies: Women's Centre, newspaper, Boost zine, Orientation Coordinator

B.Mus., Voice Performance

Activities and Societies: University Singers, Contemporary Players

Social Change Institute, Social Entrepreneurship And Impact Leadership

Activities and Societies: Sharpen skills, deepen impact, generate new possibilities. SCI gathers seasoned and emerging leaders with.