Lindsay Fitz Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tn, Us

Best Friends Animal Society is a national, non-profit animal welfare organization dedicated to saving the lives of dogs and cats in our nation's shelters. On the Celebrity and Entertainment Relations Team, my role is to: - Raise Awareness: Increase visibility of Best Friends’ lifesaving work and mission by leveraging celebrity and entertainment partnerships, strategically identifying engagement opportunities with the highest potential reach and influence.- Cultivate Celebrity Relationships: Strengthen and steward relationships with 250+ celebrity supporters and their teams, designing tailored programs and activations aligned with their passions and the organization’s mission.- Secure High-Profile Partnerships: Develop and nurture relationships with prominent figures in the entertainment industry to promote Best Friends’ work, creating messaging and speaking points that align with organizational priorities.- Negotiate Cause Marketing Deals: Strategically target and secure partnerships across television, film, music, and sports to increase brand awareness, negotiating cash and in-kind media deals for maximum impact.- Align Celebrity Support: Coordinate celebrity participation for key fundraising, advocacy, and awareness events, managing all deliverables, contract execution, and promotional support.- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with internal stakeholders to optimize celebrity and entertainment engagement, ensuring alignment of departmental goals and capabilities.- Drive Impactful Results: Deliver measurable success through celebrity-driven social media campaigns and events, generating detailed post-partnership reports and case studies.- Partner with Major Brands: Engaged entertainment partners such as Marvel, Disney, Warner Discovery, MAX, NBC, ABC, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Lions Gate to support Best Friends’ initiatives.

Providing services to clients in optimizing and aligning talent relationships and brand opportunities. Focusing on strategic revenue-generating talent partnerships, celebrity brand collaborations, talent representation, event strategy and execution, brand positioning and public relations. Current clients include entertainment, sports, production studios and beauty manufacturers.Notable Projects: Code19: The world's first professional autonomous racing franchise. Preparing to compete in the Inaugural A2RL season in Abu Dhabi this April. • Lead serialized content development: Identify initiatives to maximize global fanbase and corporate partner value. Advise on talent sourcing and recruiting to bolster production development efforts.• Facilitate on-location appearances and influencer strategy/execution: Create targeted content to support racing content.Volition: Clean beauty brand backed by Unilever Ventures. The leading prestige beauty incubator platform. • Identify and advise on celebrity marketing strategy: Deliver talent options based on company KPIs.• Evaluate influencer agreements: Make strategic recommendations relating to athlete, talent and celebrity partnership expectations and services. Lead and execute negotiations with celebrities and representatives.

Greater New York City Area

- Created and implemented the first-ever department dedicated to on-air talent business management at A+E Networks, including History, A&E and Lifetime- Established and fostered strong relationships with 950+ industry-leading talents, influencers and personalities across A&E, History and Lifetime- Strategically leveraged on-air network talent to generate revenue, create brand opportunities and increase talent exposure. Negotiated $4 million of talent fees that supported teams at the heart of revenue generation - Secured significant cost savings by successfully negotiating talent fees at an average savings of 47% per collaboration- Implemented streamlined processes that reduced talent onboarding time by 30% and enabled the team to fulfill 320+ talent requests for internal teams each year, enhancing overall operation efficiency- Collaborated with 15 internal teams, aligning talent strategies with their respective objectives and amplifying overall productivity and success - Recognized as one of the Industry's Top Emerging Talent by being named a, "Rising Leader" by the trade association, Women in Cable Telecommunications- Awarded a Clio, recognizing excellence in advertising, for the KFC/Mario Lopez Lifetime mini-movie, "A Recipe for Seduction"

New York City, Ny

- Charged with strategically leveraging talent across A+E Networks' portfolio of brands to generate revenue, create brand opportunities and increase talent exposure- Collaborate and ideate with ad sales to align talent with specific marketplace opportunities - Interpret talent contracts and recommend terms to enhance talent/network partnership

New York City, New York

- Develop strategic, multi-platform brand partnerships and advertising promotions/partnerships that elevate A+E Networks’ brands, intellectual properties and talent across multiple categories including retail, sports, lifestyle, travel, music, tech, gaming, food/beverage, leisure, financial, and all other relevant categories

Silver Spring, Md

- Effectively build and manage talent relationships (inclusive of talent, agents, managers, lawyers, show runners, production companies, etc.) across Discovery and TLC shows to minimize crisis: Identify priority talent; engage priority talent to build and maintain personal and business relationships, providing them with on-going guidance and mentorship; and work hand-in-hand with all relevant internal and external parties. Pre-empt surprises by anticipating and communicating talent-related news early and diffuse if possible.- Work closely with production teams (internal and external) to use talent relationships to influence talent to execute creative needs for production so that Discovery and TLC can bring in high-rated shows.- Seamlessly and successfully address and execute, as appropriate, all internal and external third party requests for talent services outside of production. Use creativity to fulfill requests if certain talent are not available or unable to fulfill a request that is important to the network and/or a business unit.

- Lead, coordinate and execute all internal and external marketing partnerships for NBC Sports and Olympics properties including NFL, Olympics, Kentucky Derby, U.S. Open golf, Notre Dame and NHL- Identify marketing opportunities for all parts of the NBC Sports Group including the newly-rebranded NBC Sports Network (formerly VERSUS), Golf Channel and the 11 Comcast Regional Sports Networks and execute appropriate strategies- Develop cross-promotional marketing and awareness tactics for NBC Sports Group properties across NBCU platforms such as the TODAY Show, Nightly News with Brian Williams, Access Hollywood, CNBC, MSNBC, Telemundo, E!, Style, DailyCandy and iVillage. Lead and manage NBC Sports’ critically-acclaimed “Big Event Strategy”

- Initiate, develop and execute strategic marketing projects specific to each NBC Sports property including NFL, Olympics, Kentucky Derby, U.S. Open golf, Wimbledon, Notre Dame and Dew Tour- Lead NBC Sports’ big event strategy and collaborate with the network’s broadcast partners such as Today Show, Access Hollywood, Nightly News, CNBC, MSNBC, Telemundo and all 230 NBC affiliates - Manage talent and media relations for NBC’s Olympic coverage, including the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games of 2010, the Beijing Summer Olympic Games of 2008 and the 2006 Torino Winter Olympic Games- Awarded 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Event Turnaround for the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 - Develop and manage partnerships with external parties such as creative agencies, radio stations, recording artists such as Faith Hill, Pink and All American Rejects, Gibson Guitar and event promotion and marketing companies- Produced Award-Winning Sunday Night Football promotional microsite, SundayNightisFootballNight.com. Awarded 2007 Outstanding Achievement Award by the Web Marketing Association.- Lead communications efforts for NBC Sports properties, including writing press releases, developing stories with national print and on-air media, and orchestrating affiliate satellite tours and nationwide radio tours

- Served as lead communicator for Dew Tour and the marketing/special projects manager for NBC's NFL coverage, golf's US Open, PGA Tour, Kentucky Derby and Wimbledon properties- Produced content for NBC Sports on United In-Flight. Segments covered all NBC Sports properties in-season, and reached 2 million people per month. Managed partnerships with NHL Productions and PGA Tour Productions to obtain appropriate footage.- Led relationship with Premier Retail Networks (PRN) to provide sports content for their 6,000 stores nationwide, reaching 250 million viewers per month.- Organized and led new brand strategy initiatives for NBC Sports and Olympics; including leading focus groups comprised of Sports/Olympics employees and executives.

- Wrote press releases announcing new NBC News Correspondents and fielded all calls regarding releases- Assisted publicists in all communications efforts for Nightly News with Tom Brokaw/Brian Williams, TODAY, Meet the Press, Dateline and Weekend Today- Supervised photographers and media for NBC News coverage of Election Night 2004- Organized special events and travel for publicity staff at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions (2004); NBC Universal Merger press conference; and opening of the NBC News War Memorial - Supported the communications transition plan for the anchor change from Tom Brokaw to Brian Williams

Fitz joined NBC in August of 2002 as a Page in the network’s highly respected Page Program, where she was selected for assignments at the Today Show, Last Call with Carson Daly, NBC News Communications Department, and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.