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Asheville, NC, US

A global and local community designed to make remote workers feel truly seen and validated—both in their work and lifestyle choices. Our community understands the nuances of remote life like no other, focusing on personal success and wellness rather than corporate remote work policies.We offer a unique blend of insightful digital content and engaging local.

As a serial entrepreneur and seasoned executive I balance vision and operations to build traction and sustainable growth. Working tightly with the leadership team, we’ll drive clarity, alignment, and accountability.

Helping remote workers thrive by fostering connection, facilitating collaboration, and generating local community impact. A vibrant social community of over 3,000 remote workers around Asheville, NC.

Asheville, North Carolin, US

Coach Entrepreneurs in the Venture Asheville Elevate program. Mentoring and support program modeled on MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service

Arlington, Virginia, US

Life Happens is a trade association for the Life Insurance industry. Life Happens is the trusted source for unbiased information about the importance of life insurance, disability insurance, long-term care insurance and annuities in a sound financial planLife Happens Pro is a comprehensive sales and marketing platform for life insurance and financial.

Idea Pipeline is a streamlined online tool for company staff to transparently contribute and crowdsource valuable ideas. Giving staff a voice is one of the most beneficial ways to proactively impact a positive employee experience. They are closest to customer issues and internal process challenges.An active continuous improvement program directly impacts.

An Innovation Agency. We work with growing companies who are frustrated with wasting time and money developing new initiatives. Using innovation development processes, we lead organizations to unlock big opportunities with validated learning in remarkably less time.- Guided process to uncover new disruptive business model for new revenue and improved gross.

A leading global innovation management software provider enabling enterprises to foster ideas from employees, customers and partners to improve their competitive advantage.Led the product vision, strategy, positioning and design. Key objective to ensure exceptional user experience.- Fostered cross departmental communication of sales, marketing, customer.

Business productivity software improving meeting effectiveness. The easiest way to turn calls & meetings into progress. Utilized lean startup principles to understand team meeting behaviors to build minimal viable product (MVP) and iterate until complete meeting system launched. Learned how much people crave to improve meeting experiences but resisted to.

Conway, New Hampshire, US

Provider of predictive analytics software delivering businesses the ability for data driven decisions.Transformed the marketing strategy to a customer success solution from a technical product sale. The predictive analytics software is a sophisticated and powerful system aimed at front-line staff. Marketing campaigns, website and overall messaging through.

San Francisco, California, US

Post JitterJam acquisition, launched Agency Partner division. A new sales channel brought the social media monitoring tools to agencies for their clients. Quickly staffed, developed marketing and sales processes globally.

Bedford, NH, US

Pioneered Social CRM (social media customer relationship management) for enterprises.Shaped the development of how businesses understand social relationships and conversations to effectively utilize that knowledge. JitterJam was the initial application to correlate, measure and amplify social connections. Drove the development of a unique and compelling.

Charleston, South Carolina, US

Managed transition of division upon Campagne Associates acquisition

Campagne Associates disrupted the tools nonprofit organizations used to track constituents, develop relationships and process contributions. We built the first graphical fundraising software system (yes this was the nineties!). Key innovations in remote sales processes, and remote services dramatically lowered cost of sales as well as ownership.In 2006.