Resourceful, high-energy professional experienced in leading and engaging multi-office projects from the U.S. to Israel to Africa. Excel in creative collaboration, brand development & positioning, campaign development & rollout and driving operational & collaborative excellence through a careful balance of critical thinking and design thinking skills.
Champion a strong focus on customer satisfaction and loyalty. Exceptionally well-developed internal/external written & verbal communication skills, employee relations, motivation, management development and training qualifications. Higher than average contract negotiation success.
Experience:
Freelance Writer/Editor/Producer 2004 – Present
Business Development Consultant/B2B Writer 2010 – Present
Founder/Director – NextPhase Foundation 06/2016-Present
Managing Editor – HARK News 2016
ASSOCIATIONS:
EDUCATION:
University of Arkansas Community College at Morillton
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
Champion a strong focus on customer satisfaction and loyalty. Exceptionally well-developed internal/external written & verbal communication skills, employee relations, motivation, management development and training qualifications. Higher than average contract negotiation success.
Experience:
Freelance Writer/Editor/Producer 2004 – Present
- Copywriting & Copy Editing
- Journalism - News, Industry, Policy, Lifestyle, International
- Full-Suite Ad
- Television Commercial
- Radio Commercial
- Brand Development
- Brand Communication Strategy
- Brand Management
- Business Development Strategy
- Digital Marketing
- Visual Design
- Campaign Strategy & Management - Development & Rollout
- Reputation Repair
- Multifunctional Team Management
- Source, procurement, development - multi-part series
- Commissioned pieces
- Contract research/writing
- Legal
- International Trade
- CPG Development
- Creative Writing
- Co-wrote a play which went to local stage for a limited run
Business Development Consultant/B2B Writer 2010 – Present
- Case Management Consultant
- Michael G. Dray – Hydrogen Law 2017 - Present
- Beaded Spoon (Kenya) 2016 - Present
- AntHill LP (Herzliya, Israel) 2016 - Present
- L&G Merchants, Ltd. (Nigeria) 2016 – 2018
- Grainster 2015-2017
- Cross-Functional Team development and leadership with a knack for building, motivating and influencing teams and fostering creative growth and collaboration
- Agile approach to strategy, development and execution
- Relationship-building & influence mastery
- Collaboration across numerous industries of national and global scope
- Development, planning, execution and expansion of customer acquisition, scale and retention campaigns
- End-to-end performance accountability process standardization, monitoring, review and reporting in a project shepherding capacity
- End-to-end business impact accountability process standardization, monitoring, review and reporting in a project shepherding capacity
- Software/Platform Proficiencies (legal, task management, communication/collaboration, ERP, CMS): LexisNexis, CourtLink, Pacer, Citrix, Flow, Slack, MS SharePoint, MS Teams, MS Exchange, Google Drive Suite, Skype for Business, SAP, NetSuite, DelTek Vision, Atlas, Drupal
Founder/Director – NextPhase Foundation 06/2016-Present
- Have, so far in 2019, distributed 400 books to Arkansas Fourth Circuit Court’s Juvenile and Family Services division and municipal prisons across the state of Arkansas under our Project TurnthePage, an ongoing initiative established in 2019
- Have, so far in 2019, procured 30 laptop computers, currently under refurbishment for distribution to students-in-need at National Park College in Hot Springs, Arkansas under our Project NexTech, an ongoing initiative established in 2019
- Working in collaboration with the City of Conway and Don Tyson School of Innovation to develop and execute Project Bees ‘n Butterflies: a community garden to be run, front-to-back, by students from the autism division of the Tyson School. Funds have been secured, the City has committed to lease NextPhase Foundation a parcel of land for 10 years; we await only the filling in of the finer points of an agreement to break ground. The effort will afford unique opportunities to the students to:
- Achieve occupational, business development and leadership skills, utilizing exhibited strengths in horticulture, apiary and/or trade to their own best advantage as they grow flowers, produce, herbs; run and manage an apiary; and trade within community and regional farmers markets in the fruits of their own efforts.
- Working in collaboration with Beaded Spoon, 42-Changemakers and Mwaganza in Kenya, Africa, to develop and execute on Project Rise ‘n Shine, an ESG-structured effort to empower:
- Rural women’s farmer cooperatives across Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia to develop trade-to-made opportunities in coffee, cocoa, baobab, bamboo and cotton, converting trade in raw goods into production facilities capable of producing branded lines of CPG products in each of these verticals.
- Further, we’ve been afforded the extraordinary opportunity to work with women artisans from the Maasai Tribe of Kenya to bring their beadwork to a global audience through production of jewelry, animal collars & leashes to be marketed and sold under their branded identity in retail outlets in the U.S. and Europe.
- Taken together these efforts, upon execution, are poised to
- Increase earnings ability for the cooperative and their members fivefold ($2.7M-USD cumulative in 2018) by 2024
- Move their communities into a branded global production and distribution space by 2030
- Provide between 300 and 5000 fulltime, contract and part-time jobs per region by 2030
- Drive development of permanent healthcare facilities and schools for the rural communities in which many of these women live
Managing Editor – HARK News 2016
ASSOCIATIONS:
- Speaker, Trade with Africa Business Summit 2018 – “Collaboration: Empowering Communities Forward Through Trade”
- Featured: The Introducer Magazine – “10 To Know” Gamechangers: 2018 Women’s Empowerment Issue
- The Frontrunners' League (10/2019-Present) Mentor
- Advisory Board Member (06/2017-06/2018) – National Graphene Association
- Advisory Board Member (10/2017-Present) – Lifeboat Foundation
- Advisory Board Member (11/2016-07/2017) – AdvancingX
- Board Member & Events Committee, Creative Director (01/2015-06/2016) – Faulkner County Boys & Girls Club
- Executive Board Member (05/2015-07/2017)– Grainster
EDUCATION:
University of Arkansas Community College at Morillton
- Associate of General Studies
- Practical Nursing
- Biology
- Letters, Arts & Sciences with focus: International Trade & Policy, Marketing, Nonprofit Administration
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST