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Greater St. Louis

My role is to create and implement the business development strategy to increase visibility and awareness of our services. I partner with businesses and nonprofits looking to increase website traffic and conversions and ensure their site visitors have a "wow" experience.

Greater St. Louis

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Led strategic planning process resulting in the development and execution of a strategic roadmap that translated the mission and goals into an operational plan with clear benchmarks and annual objectives.
• Sourced and evaluated 90+ potential B2B and employer partners, serving as primary point of contact, coordinating meetings, communications, and activities to ensure successful mutually beneficial collaboration.
• Conducted job market analysis, researching trends, best practices, and innovations in professional learning, instructional design, and workforce development to provide insights and recommendations to business leaders.
• Oversaw marketing and branding strategy, implementation of Learning Management System (LMS) and Online Course platforms, development of Salesforce database, and technology integration.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Leveraged my network to build B2B relationships with leaders of small-midsize businesses to help them determine whether outsourcing the administration and management of the people aspect of their business with.
• Generated leads, set appointments, made presentations, and used consultative selling approach to advise business leaders on how to contain bottom line expenses and properly align their people in order to increase.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Developed new business opportunities through networking, assessing, and building trusted relationships with senior industry leaders in non-profits and small to mid-size businesses from a variety of industries.
• Consulted with senior leaders to understand their business strategy to attract, recruit, onboard, and integrate executive level talent.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Led the Marketing, Communications, Revenue Development, Finance, and Administration core functions for a nonprofit transitional housing program serving homeless young moms and their children.
• Developed and implemented innovative programs, products, and services that increased number of clients impacted from 15 to 150+
• Oversaw submission of grant proposals for operating support from local, national, and corporate foundations totaling over $10 million.
• Successfully raised over $6.5 million in funding over 5 years to implement programs to support young women and children in poverty.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Recruited and trained 400 volunteers on quality benchmarks used to analyze agencies and allocate donations.
• Consulted with nonprofit agency leaders on strategic planning, program design and change management.
• Managed allocation of $14 million in United Way campaign funds to support 40 human service agencies.

Greater St. Louis

Co-directed operations and managed programs for a civic-venture partnership between St. Louis Public Schools and over 50 local businesses that fundraised $13M to improve student achievement in urban schools.

Masters Of Education, Counseling Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English/Business

Activities and Societies: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority - Delta Delta Chapter