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Boulder, Co, Us

Golden, Colorado, Us

- Help startup founders discover customer needs and build products and services that matter.- Build sales messaging, pitch decks, and playbooks that generate repeatable revenue.

- Glider produces TEDxBoulder, IgniteBoulder, and Boulder Startup Week. Our mission is to create community through local events that connect, empower and promote diversity in Boulder and beyond. We connect passion and purpose to empower people of all abilities and walks of life to innovate, build and achieve meaningful pursuits and ambitious goals.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Lakewood, Colorado, Us

Compliable makes gaming licenses easy.- Conducted over 200 customer discovery interviews to identify a huge unsolved pain for legal sports betting companies.- Identified ideal solution (“TurboTax for gaming licenses.”)- Collaborated with product and dev teams to deliver a POC in under 2 months.- Built marketing messages, USPs, landed FanDuel as Customer #1, and closed deals with 4 of the largest sportsbooks in the world.- Generated momentum and industry attention that brought in over $5M in new VC funding.

RealCo is a long-term accelerator that invests in, incubates, and accelerates B2B tech startups. - Provided strategic direction and vision for RealCo and ensured that each of our startups was solving real customer pains and executing efficiently. - Designed and delivered training for startup founders and coached all companies in the program in implementing the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). - During my tenure, MRR grew 20% per month across our portfolio.

Boulder, Co, Us

- Collected customer requirements and developed and launched award-winning digital and wall calendar editions of this visible reminder of cultural holidays, religious observances, and celebrations from around the world. - Sold over $100k prior to launch. Multi-year customers included Microsoft, Disney, U.S. Bank, Target, American Family Insurance, the US Postal Service, PwC, and many more.

Langley, Berkshire, Gb

- Co-founded the Travelport Accelerator, a 16-week program for travel startups and Travelport intrapreneurs. - Selected teams, designed and delivered lean startup and innovation curriculum.- Built a community of over 200 startup and travel industry mentors and investors. - Leveraged Lean Startup strategies to help internal idea founders validate customer pains, achieve product/market fit, build and iterate MVPs, and go to market.

Langley, Berkshire, Gb

- Worked with internal stakeholders to identify market opportunities and build internal competency around thinking and acting lean – business modeling, rapid prototyping, and market testing of new products and services.

- Techstars Boulder alumni and venture-funded startup connecting social signals to traditional marketing data and providing actionable insights to data-driven marketers. - Key customers include category leaders including Experian, Ogilvy, Acxiom, Sherwin Williams, and many more. (ACQUIRED).

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

- Engaged with C-Suite leaders and facilitated hundreds of top-rated DEI sessions at global brands to foster innovation and build diverse, high-functioning organizational cultures. - Clients included Disney, Microsoft, Home Depot, Deloitte, Starbucks, Newell Rubbermaid, American Family Insurance, State Farm, Ford, US Foodservice, Southwestern Energy, Nestlé, and many more.- Developed online learning modules, created facilitation guides and led Train-the-Trainer sessions for Learning & Development / HR staff in client organizations.Acquisitions:- ProGroup was acquired by Novations Group, Inc. in June of 2007.- Novations Group, Inc. merged with Global Lead in April of 2010 to form Global Novations.- Global Novations was acquired by Korn Ferry in September of 2012.

- Pixel-perfect browser-based web development and content management platform. (ACQUIRED)