Melinda Cragan Lindland is a EVP Head of Growth, Jack Morton Worldwide at Jack Morton Worldwide. She possess expertise in relationship marketing, integrated marketing, marketing communications, marketing strategy, social media. Colleagues describe her as "We bring Melinda in to act as strategist and facilitator in C-level, full-portfolio discussions. She navigates complicated dynamics and guides clients to aligned, actionable input. She then steers a design thinking process with both flexibility and focus to deliver real outcomes. She is impressive!", "Sometimes you get very, very lucky, and you find yourself working with smart, strategic, insightful, funny, and just plain fun-to-work-with people who are pervasively good and overflowing with through-and-through excellence that forces you to up your game to keep up. The kind of people who don't just help you succeed... they will you to succeed... even force you to. When I think of people like that, I think of Melinda. Melinda is an amazing partner and colleague. She's the real deal. She's smart, tactful, strategic, unflappable, insightful, creative, and incredibly driven. She is the kind of person for whom the phrase "an embarrassment of riches" must have been coined. Yes. She's that good. I have now been lucky enough to work with Melinda at 2 agencies, and at both of those agencies, I worked closely with Melinda on many projects at all levels of scale and scope. We've worked on simple, straightforward things, and we've worked on multi-year, highly complex innovation projects (hello UBM!!!) and regardless of the scale or the complications, Melinda has always been the perfect leader, helping the team steer through complex issues and deliver excellent work. Melinda is that rarest of birds... the leader who can actually dive in and get the work done... a sales executive with a deep grounding in Design thinking process and a willingness to push the work and make amazing things happen. In short, Melinda is pretty ****ing amazing. For reals.", and "Melinda was born to work in this business! Her experience in the healthcare industry including her focus on her clients, their objectives, and making sure the solutions offered are exceeding expectations is her “norm”. She realizes how important all facets of our business are, especially learning, performance, and motivation as the bedrock of why people gather in live and virtual events. It has been a privilege to work with Melinda and most of all I appreciate how she can assemble incredible teams and rally them to pull off the seemingly impossible."