Nicole Stone Email & Phone Number

Glen Ellyn, IL, US

Glen Ellyn, IL, US

As a senior business stakeholder, I am considered a change agent and have a lead role in company-critical initiatives that transform the Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. business. I lead a cross-functional team of product management, product owners, program managers, content architects, content strategists, and content SMEs to define and transform.

Greater Chicago Area

Leads the effort to create, define, and transform content strategy and offerings to align with expert solutions and a digital first approach to content. Casts and validates a content vision, translates the vision into requirements, and helps others turn the requirements into actionable plans. Focus is on identifying best practices, new content types, new.

Riverwoods, IL

• Leads the editorial staff of nearly 50 individuals to create and maintain content across multiple legal practice areas, including Securities, Banking, IP, Antitrust, Health Law, Cybersecurity and Legal Tax. Driver of.
• Collaborate with Product Management to align strategies and ensure editorial and product expectations and deliverables are met.
• Ensure there is a steady content acquisition and/or contributor pipeline to meet the requirements of the business.
• Responsible for ensuring that the right editorial resources, both internal and external, are in place to support business plans.
• Be a leader in transforming traditional products to timelier, strategic and feature-rich analytical products to meet the changing demands of customers.
• Stay abreast of emerging industry trends and developments, and devise and execute plans to upgrade editorial accordingly.

Riverwoods, IL

• Champion of change and innovation for publishing models.
• Develops innovative strategies and action-plans and providing dedicated consultative and project support on transformative initiatives that enable and further new product development and product enhancements.
• Directs the continued evolution of editorial competencies such as addition of practical content and increased efficiencies.
• Assists product managers and editorial teams through ideation processes in understanding how to maximize existing infrastructure, processes and systems, and to maximize product enhancements and development.
• Serves as a spokesperson, thought leader, and “face of the company” in a range of venues, including industry conferences, media interviews, webinars, white papers, marketing collateral, social media, client.
• Collaborates extensively with cross-functional teams internal and external to the company.

Riverwoods, IL

• Manages content and workflow solutions for a $26 million portfolio within the Health Growth division at Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.
• Effectively manages 13 direct reports, including editors, data application specialists, and administration staff.
• Collaborates with the Director of PR to implement a media relations program designed to showcase thought leadership in the legal and hospital markets; includes media interviews, whitepapers, and google hangout.
• Manages content direction and editing of white papers and newsletter articles focused on medical coding, health care compliance and health reform.
• Successfully creates and implements strategic project plans for multiple overlapping NPD initiatives generally by or before deadline; monitors P&L, resource constraints, and mitigates risks to deployment schedule.
• Proven abilities to identify, analyze and create efficiencies and increase effectiveness for existing workflow processes and client solutions.

Riverwoods, IL

• Content and workflow solutions manager of a high profile health care growth product line within the Business Compliance division of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.
• Directly manged five editors and data application specialists; co-manager of eleven other editors within Health Editorial Practice Group.
• Created and successfully launched new products including over 45 new workflow tools for the hospital and legal markets between 2010 – 2012; produced over $3 million in new sales.
• Contributed to the development of The Coding Suite for the hospital coding, revenue cycle and compliance markets; inventory of $7.5 million in 2012.
• Effectively engaged with Joint Commission Resources, a WK business partner, to create and develop a hospital accreditation product utilizing proprietary technology.
• Recognized for providing quick, complete solutions that support the customer focus and follow a cost-benefit analysis structure.

Riverwoods, IL

• Created content for e-learning Compliance lessons.
• Business analyst and product lead for software and web-based health care workflow tool development and maintenance; included writing business requirements, test cases, conducting quality testing, and informing.

Riverwoods, IL

• Analyzed numerous federal healthcare laws and regulations to create expert content for health care reimbursement and compliance auditing workflow tools and Medicare articles and books for the hospital and legal markets.
• Developed content expertise in revenue cycle and health care compliance markets.

Riverwoods, IL

• Analyzed numerous federal healthcare laws and regulations to create expert content for Medicare articles and books for the hospital and legal markets.
• Developed content expertise in Medicare reimbursement and compliance.

Medical Malpractice and negligence defense firm. Represented physicians' groups against med mal claims and large retail stores against negligence claims.

Mba, Health Care Administration

Jd, Law

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Delta, American Trial Lawyers Association competition team member, International Law Society

B.A., Political Science