Stand & Deliver is a consulting and training firm that primes organizations for high-performance communication, consultative conversations, and leadership. Through customized curricula and signature programs, we address the skills that move teams toward growth, transformation, elevated sales, and innovation. This sophisticated approach helps organizations bring big ideas to the world. Focus areas include leadership, sales, culture, and communication. The breadth of the work includes and extends beyond Influencing, gaining buy-in, consultative selling, facilitating meetings in a meaningful way, speeches/presentations, town-halls, pitches, elevating conversations, client pitches, change management, landing your point and making it stick.

Led a team of executive suite advisors to drive thought leadership and business outcomes for AWS. Recognized for entrepreneurial approach in solving business problems. Highly strategic mindset fostered team engagement and elevated corporate and executives’ brands.

Managed AWS's top customers (C-suite, EVP, and SVP) on their journey to AWS's premier keynote stages. Strategic partner to executive customer speakers who were hand-picked by AWS CEO (current Amazon CEO) Andy Jassy, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky, CTO Werner Vogels, and others at re:Invent, AWS’s largest event with 50,000 in-person global participants. A sampling of my customer speakers is below and includes the Nasdaq President & CEO, Goldman Sachs CEO, United Airlines Chief Digital Officer, 3M SVP of Digital Transformation, and Capella Space CEO and Founder.

Managed and directed all communications for the corporate vice president (CVP) of Microsoft's $8B Search advertising, data, and AI sales organization. Elevated communications for the CVP, his leadership team, and the organization to drive efficiency and business outcomes, and foster an inclusive culture.

Co-produced Microsoft’s largest annual Stores meeting resulting in requests from seven top executives to personally manage their leadership communications. Managed staff at all levels across the organization. Highly pursued mentor. Provided executive communications, platform presentations and messaging, employee communications, event planning and speaker coaching for executives leading Microsoft’s physical stores, Microsoft.com and Xbox.com to support business strategy and culture.

Led and developed an innovative and entrepreneurial team responsible for thought leadership, influencer engagement, and driving global social media strategy across Cisco's corporate channels – Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Snapchat – and digital platforms including the award-winning corporate newsroom, Cisco’s Executive Platform, and the Country Digital Acceleration site. I offer impeccable experience in earned, owned and paid media.

Managed executive communications, strategic communications and internal communications for US Enterprise, Public Sector, State & Local Education and Government (SLED), Cloud and Security sales to help accomplish company business objectives and team revenue goals for each $3-$5B organization.

Owned a thriving boutique agency where I managed agency-client relations, expanded tech and consumer lines of business, and drove new business development. Shaped and delivered AR/PR strategy and tactics to drive messaging, analyst and media relations, content development, budget management, story creation and placement to drive clients’ leadership positions in their respective industries.

I was co-founder of a successful boutique agency and proud to build and manage savvy business teams and vendors, growing revenues by 50%. Focused solely on tech clients, I successfully developed and implemented corporate and product PR for Silicon Valley companies, drove brand strategy and advised executives how to effectively communicate with the media.

I directed all corporate and consumer tech PR and AR for InfoGear, and revamped the company’s teetering image that was effectively decreasing iPhone sales. Within months of the Cisco acquisition, I received a sizable financial award for creating a compelling marketing and sales video.

I designed and managed PR and AR strategies and activities for consumer-tech and high-tech clients. I was promoted annually for my continued success of positioning unknown companies as industry leaders and solid investments/acquisitions, winning new business, and expertly managed budgets. I was able to place hundreds of stories in top business, trade and consumer media, and managed teams of PR professionals.