Brand team member for Le Méridien, Renaissance, Autograph Collection, and Tribute Portfolio

VPStrategies is a leadership organization designed to support individual executives in their overall growth objectives, teams of leaders in transformational leadership and strategic thinking, and organizations in growing profitability, employee engagement, customer and owner satisfaction through best in class strategic planning and curriculum design. Oversight of sales, marketing, P&L, profitability, operations & developing key stakeholder relationships.Company Highlights:Author/Speaker. "Living Life Loudly; How Will You Face Your Speed Bump?"*Developed and promoted an innovative strategy for being resilient through tumultuous times by setting clear objectives, creating powerful teams who have direct ownership and involvement and effectively executing strategies to achieve unique and powerful results.A Powerful Team + A Well Designed Strategy + Action = Successful & Unique ResultsMicrosoft. Global Leadership Consulting*Collaboratively developed an 18 month executive leadership coaching program to influence and upgrade the leadership capabilities of the newly acquired Nokia global country General Managers.Marriott. Strategic Planning*Designed a 3 year strategic plan for Marriott's Opening Service Sales Support organization to help them to achieve greater owner loyalty, segmentation of their customers and upgrade the talent and relationship management process for successfully opening hotels and growing brands.Abbott Labs. Communication Strategy Design & Execution*Designed and executed a communication strategy for a global sales initiative to gain visibility & buy in for the successful adoption of an IT related launch with Salesforce.com.Cisco Systems. Developed Strategic Curriculum*Designed a sales curriculum for Cisco's sales engineers to enhance financial and business relevance with their strategic partners.

Responsible for a portfolio of 25 Marriott and Hilton branded hotels, re-shaping the culture and brand identity for a relatively unknown management company, and the company's survivability through Covid-19.

Provide leadership, strategic direction, and implementation of the company's new brand identity, mission, vision, and core values. Elevate and guide leaders in a drive for execution mentality that leads to measurable and profitable results for our owners.

Corporate strategist on everything sales, revenue management, ecommerce, and marketing related for the LDHG portfolio of hotels as well as future opportunities.

Instrumental in the re organization and launch of a new sales organization that moved from intermediary marketing to a strategic account management focused sales powerhouse. Created buy in for a company wide adoption of a strategic account management mindset to implement a sales strategy connecting partnerships versus supplier of hotel rooms. Collaborated with C level executives and IT to merge 6 CRM platforms globally into 1 (Salesforce.com)*Instrumental in design and launch of the reorganized sales organization that moved from being a disjointed country focused marketing organization to a united global sales organization focused on strategic account management.*Grew customers from 80 corporate accounts to 1,800 in year one post launch and to 5,300 in year two post launch.*Corporate sales increased from $32M to $400M in 3 years.*Created the first hotel industry sales organization meet the needs of a startup brand and ensure the local and regional sales activities during infancy stages for Cambria Suites to grow market share faster upon hotel opening.

Received merit promotions with responsibilities and positions including senior manager operations/sales for acquisitions, openings, and divestitures, general manager, specialist, and director of sales. Analyzed workforce management in each market across the western region. Collaboratively strategized with cross functional regional leaders to implement consistency, workforce management, and revenue. Coached and analyzed hotel performance and created successful strategies for underperforming hotels.*Ensured successful financial results, revenue management strategies, sales strategies, and market share growth for 162 hotels.