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Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Provided specialized senior living consulting services to small and mediums businesses. Entrepreneurial mindset fused with intuitive business acumen to evaluating business opportunities and spearheading negotiations that result in aggressive revenue growth and market expansions. Services include: • Franchise recruitment/development Business development •. Short-term and long-term project management • Program development & management (promotions, accreditations/ certifications, memberships, and sponsorships, etc.) • Contract management• Process development, improvement & alignment• Training• Competitive analysis. Event planningEngaging my extensive network of providers, placement & referral agents, service providers, distributors, and alliances to maximize business efficiencies, market expansions, and profitability.ADVISOR to Second Act FinancialCONSULTANT at Assisted Living Locators

Gilbert, Arizona, United States

• Assisted in fine-tuning policies, procedures, and expansion initiatives for healthcare placement and referral partner agents for residential and senior living communities.. Engaged my comprehensive network of providers, placement/referral agents, and service providers, resulting in a 20% increase in membership.• Partnered with executives and cross-functional teams to outline financial models, negotiate contracts, and define the vision for launching new chapters and garnering new sponsorships and memberships. • Performed an array of business and operational duties including accounts payable, accounts receivables. hiring, payroll, collections, collateral, presentations and conferences, social media and marketing strategy, client management, and KPIs and website analytics (function and content).

Brentwood, Tennessee, United States

• Managed and oversaw daily operations of the paid partner program consisting of a $42M budget.• Successfully grew Brookdale's Paid Referral Partners and Service Providers base from 225 to 628. • Developed, implemented, and executed infrastructure, guidelines, prospecting and communications, contract negotiations, feasibility assessments, go-to-market plans, referral fee structure, executive and partner presentations, and metrics reporting.• Leveraged relationships with referral partners and integrated partner strategies to drive occupancy growth across multiple service lines in alignment with corporate goals and objectives ensuring optimum revenue. • Empowered team members to exceed robust partnership move-ins for 955 national communities by productivity and strategic thinking in an environment of open communication and future-facing problem-solving.• Authored comprehensive whitepaper that detailed the comparative value of referral partner channel versus internal channels.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

• Subject Matter Expert (SME) on business and sales strategies and implementing best practices to achieve margin targets and consistently stay on track with growth plans.• Utilized advanced communication skills and an entrepreneurial spirit to partner with C-Level executives to brainstorm business direction, define, goals, boost sales, ensure market growth, and maximize brand loyalty.

• Owned all strategies and created tactical alliances surrounding the development of a US based partnership program.• Instrumental in defining the strategy to restructure the Cisco Certification program increasing demand generation.• Increased partner participation by 20% through successful negotiations and management of partner and vendor contracts.• Negotiated 150+ corporate contracts with nationally branded companies including AT&T, BellSouth, Verizon, Windstream, Qwest, Ronco, Sprint, and Westcon.

Established and managed national corporate contracts with over 150 corporate partners, including ATT, BellSouth, Verizon, Windstream, Qwest, Ronco, Sprint and Westcon

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Held multiple leadership roles including Director of Multimedia Applications Product Marketing, Director of Channel Partner Remanufactured Sales, Director of Global Enterprise Channel Partner Marketing (both Readiness and Training roles), Senior Manager and Director of Norstar Channel Marketing, and Small Business Marketing Manager.