Shawn Stavseth Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

https://technovationmn.orgInspiring the next generation of women technology entrepreneurs.Technovation[MN] was formed to bring the global Technovation Challenge to Minnesota. Through an intensive 3-month, 50-hour curriculum teams of teen girls, ages 10-18, work together to imagine, design, and develop mobile apps that solve real problems in their community. We provide information, resources, and encouragement for Minnesota Technovation Challenge teams including mentor recruitment and training. We host several App Days and Appapalooza, our finale event here in Minnesota, where the girls ‘pitch’ their mobile app ideas. In 2018 we expanded our offering and launched the Amazon Alexa Skills Challenge. We are challenging teams of girls to come up with skills that solve everyday problems.Since 2014, we have inspired over 2,500 girls on 80 teams from 51 schools throughout Minnesota. Nineteen teams were semifinalists in the Global Technovation Challenge. One Technovation[MN] team was among the 10 finalist teams to pitch their app to Silicon Valley executives in San Francisco. Our 2015 Finalist team participated in the 6th Annual White House Science Fair in 2016. The top 2016 and 2017 Minnesota teams was entered into the semifinal round of the MN Cup Youth Division. Over 300 professional women and men have built a Minnesota network of support for Technovation[MN] girls as their coaches and mentors. Over 160 mobile apps have been created by Technovation[MN] participants. Our Technovation[MN] girls have completed almost 12,000 hours of coding all on apps that solve local community problems.If you are interested in inspiring young girls to change the world through technology, visit https://technovationmn.org.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led the continued shaping and execution of Cargill’s global digital learning strategy. Provided management oversight of Cargill's evolving learning technology ecosystem, portfolio management, marketing and innovation capability to deliver modern high-impact learning experiences. Catalyst of new innovative thinking in how we disrupt traditional L&D practices deploying modern technologies, experimenting with non-traditional L&D practices and building a growth-minded, high performing skills-based team to deliver significant business value in terms of speed, agility, cost, efficiency, scale and impact.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Stimulated the organization to capture business opportunities and new business models enabled by emerging technologies. Advised leadership on how we might best disrupt ourselves and launch brave new technologies to nourish the world. Drove ‘Tech with a Purpose’ vision, educated the team and inspired them to act on creating meaningful solutions. Drove IoT, mixed reality and design thinking and agile workshop development.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Built and led an innovation lab, creating solutions with practical application and a humanitarian focus. Identified the ideas and inventions with the potential for the most positive impact to the world and turned them into exceptionally designed and engineered solutions. Created a comprehensive strategic plan and owned the development of the lab. Drove an innovative culture across 6 offices worldwide, built a Culture Crate and established Lab Ambassadors to connect with the local start-up community. Determined cross-disciplined lab talent and built a lab community of 400 to enable continuous innovation. Developed a lab P&L and established KPIs. Created and managed a virtual lab collaboration site to educate, submit ideas, vote on ideas, gather feedback and manage the product pipeline. Architected 2,500 sq. ft. of lab space to foster innovative thinking, making, research and collaboration.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Developed a portfolio of industry solutions. Led technology innovation and solution integration. Built Bluespire's Salesforce practice, generating $3.5M in sales and a $9M Salesforce services pipeline in the first eight months of 2016. Created and implemented a Salesforce Partner Success Plan and successfully managed our Salesforce Partner Scorecard to become a top-tier partner in the health and life science (HLS) market. Owned the partnership vision and collaborated closely with Salesforce's Partner, Go-To-Market and HLS and FinServ Sales teams. Guided the development of effective product sales tools, sales methodologies and product training.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Code Savvy is a not-for-profit organization inspiring kids and teens to understand the kind of creative thinking that goes into coding.

Eagan, Mn

Developed marketing strategy and led a team of 12 in the development and execution of integrated marketing strategies, plans and tactics to drive operating income (OI) growth. Managed a $2.7M budget. Drove OI growth of up to 44% and OI margin of up to 13% by optimizing high-margin products and successfully managing the levers of 6 product P&Ls. Created and executed a mobile strategy including adoption of native apps, mobile website, SMS, in-app ads, mobile payment, gaming and ebooks.

Led the development of the marketing strategy and translated it into clear objectives and marketing initiatives for a team of 5. Forecasted and managed a budget of $2.7M. Exceeded revenue plan and achieved double-digit growth each year by establishing and executing an integrated marketing strategy.

Participated in the development of the west.thomson.com marketing strategy and led campaign implementation. Oversaw all email, web promotions, web content and web merchandising requests from across the company. Achieved 37% annual growth. Drove design and requirements for the marketing infrastructure of the new site, including the home page, landing pages, promotions engine and banner advertisements. Built and implemented a successful marketing campaign to support the re-launch of west.thomson.com.

Managed many aspects of the business including purchasing and designing products, managing inventory, conducting daily finances, scheduling employees, planning promotions and conducting sales. Grew start-up seasonal business into a revenue-generating landmark lasting over 16 years.

Mini-Mba

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Marketing

Activities and Societies: American Marketing Association

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa

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