"Retired" Strategist - Leader/Manager - Spokesperson - Tactician - Developer - Results-focused ProducerCentral Arkansas marketing/communications professional with extensive experience in creating high-impact strategic marketing and communications programs that drive growth in volume and revenue while building preferred corporate brands. Recognized for creating high-performance teams, leveraging integrated marketing strategies, cultivating community alliances, leading community integration initiatives for highly diversified health systems, and instituting best practices.Select Career Highlights:• Engaged in helping ensure that all Arkansans have access to quality, affordable health insurance coverage and building strong and durable brands.• Led development of a sophisticated process for developing an overall go-to-market platform that anchored the organization’s marketing/communication program in a brand-reinforcing culture and distinguishing market niche.• Administered market development efforts for two major health systems that resulted in significant improvements in brand equity, market performance in key service lines, patient satisfaction/loyalty, and physician engagement.• Helped guide two major re-branding efforts for Cincinnati’s The Christ Hospital; efforts were related to the hospital’s separation from a regional health system and repositioning as vertically-integrated coordinated care organization.• Built and led high performance professional teams, focused on game-changing support of administrative executives, service line leaders and physician champions.• Worked with a national branding firm to create successful new brand identity systems and successfully integrated new entities as brand extenders at St. Vincent Health System and Baptist Health.• Led program and business development efforts for major financial services organizations in Arkansas and Tennessee.
Listed skills include Marketing Communications, Marketing Strategy, Strategic Planning, Integrated Marketing, and 24 others.