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Chicago, Illinois, United States

As consultant, support strategic planning and visioning efforts for the continuing evolution of Chicago’s beloved landmark, the Midwest’s most-visited tourist destination. • Collaborate with President and CEO and Executive Leadership Team on strategic communications, thought leadership and executive presence. • Represent Navy Pier before varied external partner and civic groups regarding collaborative projects.• Conduct research and synthesized information on various subjects, resulting in clear and concise recommendations.• Write speeches and messaging for Executive Leadership Team.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Oversaw all aspects of marketing and communications for the nongovernmental nonprofit that welcomes up to 9 million guests each year from Chicago and around the world.• Focused messaging across owned, earned and paid media platforms on the Pier’s arts and engagement programming and wide-open spaces, helping Navy Pier attract welcome audiences back to the reopened Pier.• Managed relationships with outside agencies, including agency of record,• Expanded support for Pier’s leased events and 70 tenant partners to mainstream their offerings into Navy Pier’s promotional and marketing materials with the philosophy “if it’s here, it’s the Pier.”• Repositioned Navy Pier as a local community asset and port of entry to Chicago’s vibrant cultural landscape. • Helped develop Chicago Live, a two-day performance festival that brought more than 60 of the city’s most admired marquee organizations from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to Second City to Black Ensemble Theater, to perform in a single event. It has since become Navy Pier’s signature event, an annual celebration of Chicago.

Chicago

• Presided over the greatest period of programmatic expansion and financial success. • Increased the festival from a $19 million company to a $40 million-plus annual operation.• Oversaw all “earned revenue” streams, including concert promotion/ticket sales, dining services, and gift shop. • Increased revenue by adding lawn chair rental and pavilion-cup sales businesses, two six-figure revenue streams. • Worked closely with members of the board serving on the Women’s Board, Associates board on matters of community partnerships, education, and audience development. • Performed as founding member of our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee. • Served as a core member of the operations force tasked to reinvent Ravinia for a safe reopening.• Brought public relations, customer relations, marketing, development pitches, invitations, and other graphic design projects in-house. • Developed a multiple award-winning, 15-member content-creation team that focused on Ravinia as a philanthropic cultural destination instead of focusing on the salability of guest-artist names. • Reimagined Ravinia’s program book as a newsstand-quality Ravinia Magazine that featured Pulitzer Prize-winning writers on music trends and specific Ravinia stories. 300,000 circulation.• Developed a multi-media approach to stay connected to audiences and artists during the pandemic, that included concerts “From the Archives” of Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, a series of no-audience concerts created specifically for broadcast on WFMT, and the acclaimed RaviniaTV series.• Planned and executed “surprise and delight” activities and other “value added” customer experiences. and frequently moderated, pre- and post-concert discussions. • Wrote and produced several award-winning radio and television commercials, earning several national awards and six Midwest Emmy nominations. • Promoted the faculty and newly minted professional musicians immersed in Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute,