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Bend, Or, Us

Ca, Us

Bringing my focus and strategy of developing conscious heart-based leaders to portfolio companies, and beyond. Advantary is a full-service Management Accelerator™ providing outsourced CxO services across the entire C‑Suite, and providing access to capital.

Ascension helps to educate the next generation of leaders on how a balanced and coherent mind, heart, and emotions can positively impact the growth of a business. All trainings are steeped in proven, scientific tools and techniques to individuals, organizational leaders, and teams to bring positive changes in health, mental functions, perception, happiness, and energy levels.

San Francisco, California, Us

Paragon is a premier legal services firm providing interim in-house counsel to leading corporate legal departments. Working with Paragon allows law departments to remain nimble, with flexibility to ramp up and down as business needs demand.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Intensity is an economics and data science firm that generates brilliance through powerful research, analysis, and expertise to solve the most complex challenges in the marketplace and courtroom.

20+ Locations, Worldwide, Us

Responsible for growing firm revenue at a local and national level, and worked with some of the world's most recognized corporations.

Oakland, California, Us

As Senior Business Development Officer, I led a team of geographically-dispersed salespeople and support staff. We were responsible for developing and implementing a strategic growth plan to increase Playworks’ presence across the country. This role included revenue forecasting, analysis of existing products and services, database management, customer interaction, and delivering sales training.

I founded Active Advisors to assist professional service firms with increasing revenue. As a business development consultant, I built tools around each segment of the business development lifecycle, from identifying market segments, to securing meetings, to closing new business and retaining existing clients. Clients included accountants, attorneys, specialized tax firms, banks, wealth managers, architects, management consultants, and construction firms.

Chicago, Il, Us

I was empowered to represent BDO to ‘C’ level executives, Audit Committees and Board of Directors of companies from start-up to $1B in revenue. As regional director, I split my time between developing warm leads for the Bay Area partners, and remote management of a 15-person sales team for 9 offices. I was responsible for the strategic development and implementation of business development plans through local channels and forecasted sales each quarter to present to the executive management of the firm. I was also responsible for marketing and client service initiatives on a regional level.

New York, Ny, Us

A marketing focused role that afforded me the ability to plan and execute business growth strategies to generate leads for the partners. I analyzed and monitored local markets, providing local market intelligence to the sales team, and conducted market sales analyses to determine market trends. I was responsible for all marketing initiatives and helped contribute directly to the bottom line.

Overall accountability for delivering against a pre-agreed sales plan, in accordance with a defined budget.Sales increase of 103% attributed to specific activity.Branded and managed 3 separate companies under the Davenham Group umbrella.Management of, and responsibility for, developing lead generation.Responsible for external communications through PR, direct mail, advertising, and on-line.Identification of new markets through research and sample testing.Generated business growth through brand building and targeted market segmentation.

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Monitored on an ongoing basis the positioning / life cycle of new and existing products.Managed product advertising / PR accounts and assisted in media coordination.Conducted market research, strategy planning and presentations to recommend and implement short term and long term product development.Provided ongoing quality assurance and recommended alternative methods.

London, Gb

Preparation of sales materials and marketing collateral.Research and management of business development activities.Database management and development.

Certificate, Executive Women In Leadership

Mba, Business And Marketing

Ma, Marketing

Ba, Classics & Philosophy

High School