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Forest Park, IL, US

Santa Barbara, California, US

Chicago, IL, US

Smoketown is a boutique brand consultancy that helps visionaries, mission-driven brands and nonprofits maximize their growth and positive impact without one compromising the other.Through fractional CMO services and growth strategy consulting, Smoketown provides seasoned brand leadership for organizations that need C-level support but are not yet ready to.

Boulder, Colorado, US

Advise the investment team at Trailhead Capital on opportunities in regenerative agriculture, CPG, agtech and other sectors

New American Table convenes the next generation of iconic food and technology brands in inclusive, paradigm-shifting collaborations to increase representation on shelf and in the value chain. Join us at NewAmericanTable.com

Chicago, Illinois, US

Helping strengthen the natural consumer products sector in Chicago, joining the national network that includes Naturally Boulder and Naturally Bay Area.

Regenerative food and agriculture accelerator. Working with start up and early stage companies with 13 week intensive, mentor and expert driven cultivation of entrepreneurs. Focused on building framework for success. We work with young entrepreneurs who are driven to find environmentally safe solutions to the global food and Ag problems we face today and.

A podcast that interviews leaders of emerging brands, while the paint on their disruptive blueprints is still wet.

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

Partner with DOUGHP’s dynamic founder to help the company reach its full potential

Chicago, IL, US

Free advice for start-ups in Family Farmed’s Good Food Accelerator

Chicago, Illinois, US

Free advice for The Hatchery’s members

Springdale, AR, US

Case StudiesSITUATION: Opportunity to expand distribution with our largest retailer, but it required innovating at a record-breaking pace.ACTION: Rather than asking “What should we make?”, we partnered with R&D to understand, “What CAN we make?” Then we paired those capabilities with a problem that consumers wanted to solve: delicious, high quality, 100%.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Case StudiesSITUATION: Hunt's needed an innovation strategy and pipeline that expanded the consumer segments that it could reach, while modernizing the portfolio.ACTION: Coached my team to partner with R&D and internal creatives to build Hunt’s most robust innovation pipeline in nearly a decade. Helped lead the thinking to apply Jobs-to-Be-Done Theory to.

Oakland, California, US

Develop and lead trainings in management and strategy for local, growth-focused food companies in the Bay Area, including Blue Bottle Coffee, Organic Valley, Acme Bread, and Belcampo Meat Co.

Oakland, CA, US

Led business strategy development, integrated marketing communication and innovation for Clorox Toilet Cleaners and Liquid Plumr, a combined $250M+ business with a $40M+ demand creation budget. Led relaunch of Clorox Toilet Wand.

Oakland, CA, US

Led innovation for the $500M+ laundry businesses, including strategy development, discovery, design thinking, consumer insight generation, product development and concept writing and testing. Developed and launched Clorox Control Bleach platform (crystals and pods).

Oakland, CA, US

Led business strategy development, integrated marketing communication and close-in innovation for Clorox 2, a $125M laundry additives brand with a $30M demand creation budget. Reversed negative share declines.

Oakland, CA, US

Led the development of shopper marketing platforms for nearly every brand in the Cleaning Division portfolio, including Clorox bleach and Clorox Disinfecting Wipes. Helped Home Care win Sales Planning Team of the Year.

Oakland, CA, US

Helped lead integrated marketing communications and close-in innovation for Spray Cleaners. Chartered and led product development for SmartTube Technology (shipped 2012, still on shelves today).

Austin, TX, US

• Key Accomplishments:
• Conceptualized an online, user-managed system for vendor new product submissions. Led team of software developers and designers to create wireframe and final site. Fully replaced decades-old analog system.
• Piloted an online marketing campaign that tied ad effectiveness to specific store traffic.
• Sourced baby clothes and accessories as a Buyer.

• The largest whole wheat flour brand in the Northern Pacific at the time.
• Identified the opportunity to expand into the baking mix category with dessert baking mixes positioned as “better for you” options. Successfully persuaded the company to invest in a consumer survey that demonstrated.

• Venture Capital -- $20 million -- Focused on early-stage, science-based consumer products that help people stay healthy.Key Accomplishments:
• Researched and drafted its first Private Placement Memorandum.
• Managed online newsletter for prospective investors.

Westminster, CO, US

• A $50 million meat company that sells premium, family-farmed, sustainably-raised meat products.
• Led consumer research, including analyzing a 27,000-cell Excel file, that uncovered the uniquely important role of packaging in consumers’ processed meat purchases.
• Successfully recommended a shift in packaging communication priorities: from emphasis on animal welfare to emphasis on great taste enabled by sustainable farming practices.

• A $1.2 million nonprofit helping clients build and supplement in-house research capacity.Co-Executive Director (promoted 2001), Research AnalystKey Accomplishments:
• Delivered a 40% revenue increase post-9/11 despite dramatic decline in fundraising environment nationally.
• Created a business plan to generate 200% more earned revenue over a three year period.
• Conceptualized the organization’s youth-focused practice, which became its fastest growing.

Mba, Marketing

Bachelor Of Arts In Journalism And African-American Literature