Proficiencies.

Coordinate across key internal and external stakeholders to develop proposals, grants, contracts, and pricing to secure new accounts and optimize the performance of high-value existing clients. Successfully generating over $3 million of revenue annually.

Advance and grow complex, long-term relationships with key stakeholders in order to meet strategic business priorities.

Maintain and activate a strong pipeline of potential corporate partners who align with companies values and strategic goals.

Creatively curate new opportunities for brands to celebrate and support the issues that matter most to them.

Manage cross-functional teams to develop and deliver innovative custom activations for partners.

Proven ability to understand and align a partner’s key business objectives with company’s campaigns.

Lead end to end development of the organization’s first cause-marketing and awareness campaign.

Proficient in managing multiple projects and have a proven track record of time and resource management ensuring project timelines and partner expectations are exceeded.

Proven success in coordination across external vendors, while directing a team of peers, interns and contract employees to successfully meet deliverable deadlines.

Successful leadership of events for brand marketing and employee engagement.

Ability to actively listen to complex partner requirements and translate those constraints into easily understandable contract terms and project plans.

Ensure partnership retention by providing clear expectations and a positive customer experience by creating inventive, quick solutions for each unique situation or challenge.

Responsible for coaching and training direct reports, with a focus on developing new and varied skillsets to drive over performance and ensure criteria is met for promotions, future opportunities, and commendations from teammates and senior leadership.

I lead by example through implementation of a 360 leadership approach.

Ability to recognize when best to engage supervisors for general flags, approvals and engagement of senior leadership.

Seen as a trusted knowledge resource by senior leadership through my effectiveness in managing complex relationships and multi-functional teams. This confidence was leveraged into a management position where I assumed the responsibility for developing the skillset of my direct reports to support the team in generating leads and relationships.

Successfully implemented a new employee engagement sponsorship model to meet the changing needs and goals of external stakeholders. After overseeing coordination of the partners and working groups engaged in the project, the approach was adopted by the organization and is now a standard model. This method generated over $250,000 and covered indirect costs, netted additional revenue for the organization, and provided direct funding for local communities.

Part of the special project team for the single largest national fundraising event in Special Olympics history. Designed, deployed and monitored a complex fundraising platform used to maintain participant records and steward over 18,616 new donors.

Produced a long-term integrated event strategy for the new national collegiate event series resulting in 52% new donor acquisition, quadrupled revenue growth, and produced a significant increase in program participation in 2.5 years. This innovative concept enabled Special Olympics to package its programmatic efforts as a sellable asset.

Led efforts in the research, testing and development of new campaigns to raise revenue and brand value with key stakeholders.

Spearheaded the development of a new marketing and awareness month.

Created, tested and successfully executed grassroots marketing strategies that targeted and identified key donor influencers to increase awareness and event registrations.

Identified and secured in-kind brand placement totaling over $2 million which created brand awareness opportunities in key markets for Special Olympics.

Researched and analyzed the development of projects that led to new strategic, revenue generating assets and opportunities.

Created comprehensive fundraising guides to ensure high-level performance by teams driving overperformance and meeting fundraising goals.