Nicole Aubrey Edwards

Hampton Roads, VA

678-***-****

ad4jmq@r.postjobfree.com

Creative strategy solution expert and experienced brand building architect. Creative consultant using uncharted creativity with versatile experience leading established domestic and international organizations as well as twenty-eight startups from 2009 to 2022 with proven results in ROI and highly profitable growth. A change agent esurient for accountability, rapid growth, and operational excellence. Hybrid Pedigree of guts and grace you genuinely want to sit next to you at dinner parties. Known as a Thought Leader without walls and a strategic visionary who displays leadership to inspire teams by providing and promoting excellent quality of work, creative exploration, and innovative adoption. A passionate visionary dependent on instinct, intuition, interpretation, and innovation. Collaborator on the development of new communications and outreach initiatives. External creative resource manager and SEO expert pairing with chief strategy officer and chief digital officer to develop new partnership opportunities and extend existing relationships. Skills and Specialties:

• Published Author and Poet

• Strong interpersonal skills

o Proven ability to lead high-functioning cross-specialty teams at diverse levels and with different backgrounds and experiences.

o Proven catalyst for breakthrough business growth, creative ideas, inspiration to teams.

• Excellent relationship building skills

o comfortable dealing with senior management and senior industry stakeholders.

• Exceptional data and analytical skills complemented with technology knowledge and research.

• Ability to operate successfully in a team environment and in a cross-cultural, multi-regional settings.

• Strong organizational skills, diligence, and attention to detail.

• Highly self-motivated, with excellent verbal and written communication skills, conflict and resolution, and negotiation skills

• Subject matter expert in design and technology trends.

• Strong conceptual, strategic, and innovative thinker.

• Thrive in a deadline-driven environment with the ability to manage multiple priorities, set clear expectations for deliverables, and meet project deadlines.

• Strong ability to incorporate client research, data, and business strategy into creative solutions. Carefully Curated Experiences:

Met life – Strategic Financial Analyst Consultant

• Increased revenue for financial advisors by 20%.

• Effectively managed strong business relationships with Financial Services clients.

• Provided quantitative risk analysis reports

Rothy’s – Business Development Strategist

• Created original concept of a bold and radical data collection system catered to the Company’s Bold and Radical Brand.

• My creative and strategic repertoire is responsible for crafting the company's strategy for business operations, including the management of multiple departments responsible for research and development, product/service development, sales, and marketing.

• Designed startup strategies covering company-wide rollouts of the introductory product, training materials for future hires, and provided a breakdown of operational objectives documentations alongside the Operations Team per investor request.

Nicole Aubrey

Richmond, VA 757-***-**** ad4jmq@r.postjobfree.com R&D Urban Partners, Inc. – Business Growth Strategist

• Cross-Group Coordination. Identify Digital brands for potential acquisition, work with Chief Strategy Officer and Corporate Business Development teams to close deals.

• Collaborative Proposal Liaison

• Led a trusted team of four in turning a creative initiative into a specialized system of open (non-proprietary) identifiers designed from identifiers issued by an official source. Sentara Heart Fund – Strategic Business Operations

• The role is essential to the functionality of the Sentara Heart Fund leadership team.

• Actively researched evolving trends in fundraising, strategic thinking, and decisions.

• Consulted on the project with budding ideations. Balboa Park: MOMA – Strategic Business Consultant

• Introduced innovative digital tools and design techniques to fellow collaborating Creative, Art, Tech, Marketing Directors.

• Delivered cutting-edge design solutions to all digital promotional materials.

• Exceled in public relations efforts - producing copy, drafting company language, circulating press releases, and instilling lasting connections via personally memorable interactions.

• Combining innovation, an excitable passion for nonconformity research to create powerful messages to implement effective communication campaigns into public and media relations – Subject matter expert in digital communication.

• Event organization with experience working with clients to meet their needs, planning events from conception to completion, and managing the entire event process.

• Negotiate with vendors on pricing and delivery.

• Manager relationships with vendors and organize all aspects, including but not limited to a venue, food, alcohol, live music, dance floors, DJs, and more.

Commonwealth Vascular Institute – Thought Leader and Strategic Change Partner

• In-depth understanding of and insight on the myriad of challenges.

• Disrupted entire scope and reach of the business model necessary to shake up the traditional business model and redefining definitions of how an agency works (common disruption only).

• Pitch Head of Operations, internal management strategist, and CMO regarding advertising, marketing.

• Ability to contribute innovative, creative and “out of the box” ideas; considers industry trends and understands their relevance to our business

Captain Blankenship – Digital Strategist

• Management

• Exceptional commercial and business operations acumen

• Exceptional digital and data analytical skills complemented with deep technology - understanding

• Strategic vision and superior domain knowledge

• I have earned the privilege to belong within my chosen communities and to advocate for those in which I am an ally of. I advocate by showing up and being heard.

United Way, San Diego (Non-Profit) – Longstanding Staff Writer WEWALK NFK