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Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Jersey City, Nj, Us

I write about the impact of physical workplaces on employee experience and business outcomes.

Leads a globally-distributed team of researchers, interior designers, and workplace strategists responsible for the generation, sharing, application of insights. Key areas of focus include: inclusive design, future of work and workplace, the evolving nature of homes, healthcare and well-being, higher educational spaces, future foresight explorations, and beyond.

Zeeland, Mi, Us

Led the global research team within Corporate Strategy, focused on gaining and sharing insights that help Herman Miller and our customers thrive.

Zeeland, Mi, Us

My role is focused on leveraging emerging technologies to grow B-to-B revenues in new and differentiated ways. I also help to lead Herman Miller's thinking around distributed collaboration, smart/connected work environments, and how technology will impact the future of work.

New York, Ny, Us

• Continued in my previous responsibilities after Teem was acquired by WeWork, focused on increasing adoption of Teem solutions by WeWork enterprise customers• Led external evangelism of WeWork's vision for technology-enabled workplaces, and chaired the inaugural WX (Workplace Experience) Summit in January of 2019

• Led Teem's Product Marketing team, responsible for rapidly bringing software solutions successfully to market to grow Teem's business. Key activities include audience marketing, defining messaging, pricing and promotional strategies, and the creation of marketing and sales tools. In 2018, Teem became one of the top ten fastest growing business apps in the world, according to Okta's Business at Work 2018 Report.• Was responsible for creating Teem’s research-based POV about the future of work and workplace, sharing insights and a vision of the future with internal and external audiences.

Zeeland, Mi, Us

• Leading the commercialization (marketing, sales, distribution and go-to-market strategy) for Live OS, Herman Miller's "smart" furniture and service solutions• Core member of Herman Miller's IoT development team, representing the needs of end users, customer stakeholders, commercial real estate firms, interior designers, and dealer channel partners - throughout the R&D process to help define solution strategy and road map• Formulating and implementing business development strategies with a host of potential non-traditional partners to create new, mutually-beneficial market opportunities

Zeeland, Mi, Us

• Led Herman Miller's Future Technology Team (within R&D), responsible for developing and sharing the organization's research-based insights, point-of-view, and road-map relative to improving the use of technology in the workplace. • Core member of the team that developed and launched Living Office, Herman Miller's vision of the future workplace. Collaborated with user experience (UX) leaders at world-leading technology firms to ensure that Living Office environments put people first yet enable a natural and enjoyable use of future technologies. • Served, in an interim capacity, overseeing product and portfolio management. Collaborated with product management to ensure meaningful strategic differentiation for each product category, and worked with senior/executive leadership to manage and prioritize all potential new product development opportunities.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

• Developed digital strategies to launch new products in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. • Developed and launched Steelcase’s first fully-integrated social media campaigns, uniting the efforts of global teams and channel partners• Created a program to educate internal stakeholders on the potential value of social/digital strategies for B-to-B organizations

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

• Launched media:scape, Steelcase’s first collaborative technology product, and managed all critical facets of its growth – including marketing strategies, sales and channel readiness – to help Steelcase be successful in the new realm of workplace technologies• Oversaw rapid development of product, simultaneously managing several product development projects in concert with internal and external development partners• Developed and managed co-marketing relationships with several technology companies, including Microsoft and Polycom, to develop mutually-beneficial approaches to sales growth

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

• Developed strategies for reaching new and unfamiliar sales audiences with marketing messages and sales strategies tailored to their needs. Worked with fellow sales, marketing and channel team members to holistically serve the needs of these new audiences throughout the sales process.• Created regional product launch and “pre-sell” strategies for new products, effectively linking the Steelcase product development and sales organizations• Delivered 100+ audience-specific trends seminars in local markets, priming the marketplace for the release of new collaborative workplace solutions

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

• Member of a small team charged with reorganizing the Steelcase brand architecture, defining the brand essence of each core brand, and designing customer experiences that emphasized the unique promise of each brand• Led three research-driven, experience-design projects that resulted in a new co-branded Steelcase dealer showroom program, new marketing strategies for reaching small businesses, and new sales strategies for working with architectural and interior design firms

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

• Served as a behind-the-scenes marketing consultant to the Steelcase sales organization for “must win” projects, brokering a variety of creative resources used to differentiate Steelcase in the marketplace, resulting in a regional increase of over $10m in incremental sales• Helped to create a new tactical sales training for Steelcase called Evidence-based Selling, emphasizing the role of storytelling and the use of key customer metrics to win new business

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

• Served Chicago’s architecture and interior design (A&D) community by calling on approximately thirty design firms, promoting the Steelcase brand and ensuring Steelcase’s participation in projects• Achieved $5.5 million in sales in eighteen months, significantly surpassing sales goal

Chicago, Il, Us

• Assisted Director of Operations in management of marketing, budgets, human resources, board management and other operational issues while pursuing my M.B.A.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

• Managed the sales operations and showroom for Steelcase’s Turnstone brand, calling on dealers and establishing relationships with small and mid-sized architectural and design firms.• Achieved over $5.7 million of furniture sales, surpassing target sales goal by 48%.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

• Managed Steelcase’s showroom in the Merchandise Mart and helped to launch new product offerings by personally hosting more than 1200 client visits to its Chicago facility. • Served as Systems Product Specialist, helping to win and protect accounts by assisting design professionals, distributors and fellow salespersons with technical and competitive product information.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

• Defined customer criteria for four products in early stages of development, resulting in successful advancement through several stages of the development process.• Served as market research specialist, coordinating direct and secondary consumer research resulting in a more comprehensive understanding of consumer needs.

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