"John has built a reputation of knowing what's not working and connecting the dots with the right leaders and teams to find solutions and help us get better every day."
Ron Johnson, former CEO of Enjoy and Target
Resume
May 2023 - Sept 2024
Senior Program Manager- Communications
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Lead and executed communications strategy across North America that aligned with global strategy, goals and brand
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Planned and facilitated All Hands meetings, Sales Leadership meetings and all special launch and org announcements and updates for North America
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Performance – Since joining, our communication framework, strategy and culture transformation has led to MoM growth in Sales (127% growth in the past year) and our two most profitable quarters ever
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Founded first ever Culture Committee and launched the first ever performance/culture program. We saw increases in engagement in our company wide culture and effectiveness survey (10% engagement increase)
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Owned our knowledge management system and collaborated on building and maintaining our internal intranet.
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Planned and executed all North American Leadership Summits
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Worked closely with Office of the CEO, Security and HR teams on sensitive communications, policies and content, as well as provided communications and presentation support to Sales Leadership
Nov 2017 - Oct 2022
Creative Communications Manager
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Worked closely with and influenced leadership team in the development and dissemination of important messaging via proper mediums to HQ and 70+ global teams
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Organized, strategized and ran 120+ town halls, 100+ Creative team meetings and 12+ All hands Meetings supporting key business initiatives
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Cross-functional collaboration with a multitude of teams to build field and comms roadmap and ensure content is helping drive revenue and provides valuable information and transparency
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Face of the company and final say on all messaging and content focused on supporting cultural values, executive communications and HQ/Field connection
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On-air talent and producer for over 200+ videos focused on executive communications, performance, diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, company culture and recruiting
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Created first ever performance/culture driven program which boosted revenue by 10% and employee satisfaction by 15%
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Analyzed data to measure effectiveness, impact and engagement of all communication/people programs. Increased engagement by 25%
April 2015 - Oct 2017
Creative Communications Strategist
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Founded Internal Communications team and owned all internal video/audio requests to ensure all content was on brand
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Lead the development of comprehensive comm plan in our internal App that supported and aligned with our partnerships and company goals
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Produced and hosted 3 live shows weekly with CEO and Co-founder, a cultural cornerstone for the company
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Increased sales 15% globally by collaborating with L&D and creating educational content series’
Jan 2013 - May 2014
Marketing Manager
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Creation and completion of master service agreements, confidential disclosure agreements and marketing budget that exceeded $28M.
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Successfully launched new antipsychotic drug campaign (forecasted to earn $150M) within tight time frame.
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Collaborated with physicians and CNS VP to focus on market research, marketplace activity and product demand
August 2007 - June 2010
Director of Business Development
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Educated and influenced federal/state policymakers who successfully promoted the clients’ products & marketing initiatives.
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Responsible for sales pipeline and ROI for all clients' products including SaaS, alternative energy and defense intelligence products/services.
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Successfully hit quotas of 50k a month.
