Leah Nolan Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, US

Storm Brain is a digital agency specializing in the development and implementation of digital marketing campaigns, brand strategy, UI/UX design, web and ecommerce development. Our award-winning team finds unique ways to grab attention, communicate your brand, demonstrate why you’re important, create maximum conversions, and drive business growth and.

Provided full-service business consulting in marketing and experiential marketing industry categories. Included meeting planning for large-scale conventions, conferences, trade shows, corporate meetings, and professional events. Services included program development, marketing strategy, site selection, budget and operational management, staffing, vendor.

San Diego, CA, US

• Leading a large-scale team, oversaw meetings and events for 5 corporate programs. Managed multiple large-scale conventions and a national theatrical keynote tour with annual conference budgets of $1.25M. Had primary.
• Developed chapter program, support systems, and processes for 35 chapters with 20,000+ members and approximately 300 localized events annually.
• Organized conferences for over 2,000 attendees featuring major keynote speakers such as President Bill Clinton, Congressmen, US Treasurer, US Secretary of Housing, and Urban Development, and others.
• Developed and deployed an automated 6-part market fundamentals webinar series, including content development, presentation designs, and automated delivery.
• Developed marketing/communication strategy for chapter and national programs, including public relations and media outreach, email campaigns, social media campaigns, and guerrilla marketing campaigns.
• Increased transparency by developing a comprehensive dashboard monitoring system and streamlined management workflows by implementing technology solutions.

• While managing all meeting planning, training, staff events, and board of director’s meetings, provided strategic marketing development on conference and business event projects and directly contributed to marketing.
• Served as lead project manager for community homebuyer exposition fairs; recruited local businesses and service providers to participate in trade shows, managed all operational set up/ booth assignments, promotions.
• Managed development, coordination, and execution of annual conference event with 60-70 top housing industry executives and government officials.
• Managed vendor relations including contract negotiations; managed the procurement process to maintain strict cost control.
• Led human resources including staff planning, recruiting, hiring, salary negotiations, benefits, health insurance, as well as layoffs, terminations, and disciplinary procedures.
• Wrote and distributed broker network communications, corporate press releases and corporate internal communications.

San Diego, CA, US

Sold customized event coordinating and brand activation services to a wide range of clients. Led site selection and sales process, organized the preliminary aspects of events, and directed the execution of the program. Managed a field staff of 45 and sold $1M annually.

Organized, oversaw, and executed daily client interactions. Directed a team managing business marketing projects and all ongoing brand activation marketing, including client contracts and prospective clients. Balanced multiple concurrent projects overlapping marketing, coordinating, and advertising.

Bachelor, Mass Communications And Journalism

Mass Communication/Media Studies