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Chicago, Il, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Company Descriptor:At BetterUp, we’re bringing the power of human transformation to individuals and workforces everywhere. Our mission? To help people everywhere pursue their lives with greater clarity, purpose, and passion. The BetterUp experience brings together world-class coaching, AI technology, and behavioral science experts to deliver change at scale — improving personal and organizational resilience, adaptability, well-being, and productivity. The results? Individual transformation meets organizational growthRole Summary:As an Advisor, I’m leveraging my expertise in talent development programming, channel marketing partnerships, and client-side return on engagement insights to expand BetterUp's category leadership in Chicago, Toronto & NYC.

San Francisco, New York, Ca, Ny, Us

Company Descriptor:Mindless Inc.(DBA Freestyle+), founded by Tony-award-winning improv performers, is an experiential game developer democratizing access to improvisation's life-enhancing mental fitness benefits. Role Summary:As a Board Member, growth advisor, and investor at Freestyle+, I lead our go-to-market growth strategy and expand our ecosystem of symbiotic partners, investors, and advisors.Highlights: We have fostered ongoing partnership collaborations and complementary investments with revered organizations such as AARP, BetterUp, Forbes Travel Guide, Stanford University, Levity Live, The Atlantic, ESPN..

Chicago, Il, Us

Company Descriptor:The Second City is the premier improv-based sketch comedy and education brand dedicated to entertaining, inspiring, and transforming through courageous comedy. With theaters, training centers, and touring ensembles, The Second City has taken improv off the stage, expanding the business to include collaborations with corporate clients and television and film productions, reaching over 1 million people a year around the globe. Famous alums include Tina Fey, Steve Carell, and Keegan-Michael Key, to name a few. Role Summary:I was the Chief Commercial Officer and one of three equity partners. Highlights:Over five years, I optimized, diversified, and materially expanded a $60 million annual P&L portfolio comprising B2C and B2B entertainment and education business lines across Chicago, Toronto, and Hollywood. Our portfolio reached over 500,000 audience members, 10,000 students, and 700 corporate clients annually. This record growth led to the successful sale of The Second City to a new ownership group in February 2021.

Chicago, Il, Us

Company Descriptor:Second City Works applies the core tenets of improvisation to concrete business challenges. Born from the iconic, world-renowned Second City, the research-backed methodology is proven to transform the roots of human behavior and team dynamics to drive actual, meaningful change across all facets of an organizationRole Summary:I was a co-founder of Second City Works, which is the B2B business within Second City’s portfolio. I oversaw the company's transformation from a beginning live entertainment entity into a fully integrated provider of live, virtual, and licensed on-demand talent development products and services. We served over 700 corporate clients annually, including over 100 Fortune 500 companies.I oversaw P&L growth, demand generation, sales logo acquisition, new business development, enterprise community subscription strategy, digital publishing product development, and GTM distribution partnerships. Our client base included major brands such as Google, Microsoft, NYSE, Visa, and Starbucks and media, entertainment, and sports properties such as MLB, MLBPA, NHL, NHLPA, ESPN, TNT..Highlights:• Growing our annual enterprise customer base from 50 to over 750• Adapting and pivoting our product and service suite offerings through co-creation and commercialization of new offerings• Identifying a white space market opportunity and developing a community-based strategy to co-create the product suite with over 150 enterprises • Extending our go-to-market community strategy through channel distribution partnerships, a growth strategy that ultimately led to over $200MM in combined subscriber revenues from over 3,000 enterprise subscribers, reaching an estimated end-user audience of over 20 million participants https://www.secondcity.com/second-city-works/asynchronous-education• Receiving the Chicago Innovation Foundation's Chicago Reinvention Award for driving several consecutive years of double-digit and triple-digit YoY growth.

Company Descriptor:True North is an independent advertising agency based in Toronto, Canada. It offers integrated creative, media, technology, and insights services to help clients reach their audiences in today's always-on world of media consumption.Highlights: I established a cutting-edge channel marketing practice within the advertising agency that helped me attract a robust blue-chip client base. By sharing my expertise externally, collaborating with different teams within the agency, and focusing on targeted prospecting, I was able to significantly increase the number of new clients and their annual billings.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Parent Company Descriptor:Corus is Canada’s leading pure-play media and content company, developing and delivering high-quality content and brands across platforms for audiences worldwide. The company’s portfolio of multimedia offerings encompasses 35 specialty television services, 39 radio stations, 15 conventional television stations, a suite of digital assets, animation software, technology, and media services. Highlights: By collaborating with industry giants such as P&G, Nestle, Unilever, and Kraft, I created an innovative online platform called Brandrunner. This platform simplified field promotional marketing workflows between advertisers and retailers in the CPG industry.