Jackie Hermes

Accelity

We help companies grow faster with bold sales and marketing processes that actually work—not the “push content and say a prayer” method that many agencies use.

Our team is a blend of bold thinkers, creative problem-solvers, and data enthusiasts who love turning challenges into wins. We’re obsessed with helping businesses scale by delivering smart, tailored strategies that convert leads into loyal customers.

With our friendly, hands-on approach, Accelity is more than just a partner—we’re an extension of your team. Whether it’s building brand awareness, generating demand, or optimizing for conversion, we make marketing make sense.

DM me 👉 let’s create something bold together.

Founder & CEO

Just A Girl Inc.

Advisory Board Member

gener8tor

Startup Mentor

Building Brave

Mentor to Female Professionals

The Commons

Mentor

Women's Entrepreneurship Week

Women's Entrepreneurship Week is an event series that spark business and economic growth by showcasing, educating and connecting women entrepreneurs and professionals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and beyond.

Learn more at https://www.wewmke.com/

Co-Founder

Golden Angels Investors

Advisor

Sweet Monkees

Sweet Monkees are delicious dairy-free cookies made with healthy ingredients, found at select Milwaukee area grocery stores and Milwaukee-area events. I built this business from the ground-up, marketing and successfully selling to over 10 grocery chains over 3 years. In 2014, I sold this business to focus on Accelity.

Owner

Zywave

I managed the marketing department at Zywave. As product marketers, we focused on go to market strategy and brand awareness. In addition, my team created joint sales and marketing communications and demo materials to speak to clients in a meaningful way. The marketing department also manages zywave.com content and Zywave's social media presence.

Head of Marketing

The Market Analyst is a marketing and product management role. I was the analyst on Zywave's best selling product—Broker Briefcase Benefits. In this role, I studied market developments and maintained an understanding of the constantly changing field. In addition, I conducted won, loss, exit, and other partner interviews to gain a deeper understanding of Zywave's broker clients. Another key piece of this role is analyzing product performance monthly to identify hot topics, product usage trends, and focus for content to reinforce product roadmap.

Market Analyst

I worked to brand Zywave as a premiere Milwaukee employer and expand local awareness. Presented at speaking engagements on local campuses, at job fairs, and other volunteer opportunities. I was part of a task force that pioneered Zywave's social media presence by writing vision documents, evaluating reporting tools, holding company-wide training sessions, and creating pages on Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin.

Recruiting Consultant

GE Healthcare

Worked in the cardiology department to expanded Computed Tomography marketing library by coordinating image layouts and text in customer brochures, Powerpoints, and other materials. In addition, I founded the Marketing Path program to enhance associates knowledge of the role of Marketing in Healthcare. My team led a business improvement project that concentrated on increasing Net Promoter Score in the cardiology department. Finally, I provided sales support for 14 Account Managers who exceeded an sales target of $56 million in 2008.

Sales & Marketing

Growing B2B software co's w/ marketing that *actually works* | founder + CEO @ Accelity | built from $0 to 7-figures with no funding

It all started in 1986 in Lansing, Michigan.

Kidding. (Well, not really, but that’s not how I’m going to start this story.)

I started my entrepreneurial journey with cookies. Really. A vegan cookie company… and I wasn’t vegan (I gave it a shot and dang, it was hard!). I turned four cookie recipes into a business—designing packaging, finding a kitchen and making the cookies, eventually outsourcing production, then selling and establishing distribution to 12 grocery stores around Wisconsin.

The cookies taught me how to hustle. As a 24-year-old MBA, I definitely didn’t picture myself hoisting up tents at farmers markets to hand out $5 bags of cookies, or being the demo lady at the grocery store, but there I was. I still had a full-time job running the marketing department at a SaaS company, and a baby.

I’m so grateful for that experience because the money I made helped me start Accelity. What began as a one-woman consultancy blossomed into a kick-ass team of 20 and counting and a group of amazing, loyal clients all over the US.

LinkedIn has been a HUGE contributor to our growth over the past few years. I got talked into—okay, almost forced; I really, really didn’t want to do it—publishing videos about my entrepreneurial experiences in mid-2018 and have steadily grown an audience since. The LinkedIn community has given me so much love and support and I could not possibly be more grateful for the opportunities.

Outside of my professional life, I was a foster parent for two years and two of my three beautiful kiddos were adopted in Milwaukee. People always ask about hobbies, so here you go: lots of travel, fitness, exploring Milwaukee, and playing a lot of Taco vs. Burrito with my kids.

We help B2B software companies grow faster with bold sales and marketing processes that actually work—not the “push content and say a prayer” method that many agencies use.

We’re different. An agency born from software, our team has years (and years) of hands-on experience working with high-growth B2B software companies.

Want to know how we do it? Check out the links below.

Tandem Talks Podcast

Podcast Host 🎤

Tandem Consulting 

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www.TandemConsulting.co

Co-Owner

Tandem Giving, Inc

Tandem Giving focuses on advocacy adoption for children in Eastern Europe and Colombia. Half of the funds we raise are put into an endowment fund and as it builds the interest on the money will create perpetual giving for children in need. The other half creates grants for families in the States so they can more easily host children and advocate and connect them with potential forever families here. Older children have a VERY slim chance of adoption and once they reach the age of 16 they phase out of the system in their country of origin altogether. A high percentage transition into drug trafficking and the sex trade industry, hence our sense of urgency and passion. The process we are supporting raises the likelihood of an older child being adopted from 1% to nearly 70%.

CC Global LLC

Author of So You Want to Start a Side Hustle • Grounding Moderate Entrepreneurs on their Adventure • Speaker • ❤️ Centered Business Strategist • Kicking Butt With Kindness • Non-Profit Founder • Owner • Enjoy the ⚙️✌🏻

We are a Midwestern wife & husband duo, running our companies, teaching mindset from our new book So You Want to Start A Side Hustle, podcasting, traveling the world doing keynotes & growing our non-profit Tandem Giving focusing on advocacy adoption for older children without families. We are a team. 🤝

Craig & my genesis began when a world-traveling, preschool teaching feminist met an admittedly analytical commercial banker. It was a comical collision of empath meets analyst.😅

We realized that if we wanted to create an exceptional life, with choices, autonomy & deeper impact, we had to go out of bounds on the mainstream “go to school and get a good job” adage. Since we were not hardcore enough to quit our jobs and attempt to gut out a startup, we instead jumped into the world of 𝐌𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏, meaning we started our first wave of side hustles & entered the entrepreneurial jungle— together. 

Our progressive approach has enabled us to step away from our careers in our 20's & 30's, instead realizing our dream of spending ample time with our kids as full-time parents while growing our businesses to several million in revenue. We're passionate about grounding others in their own entrepreneurial adventure & speaking to tens of thousands of people annually through keynotes in the U.S., Caribbean, Australian & European markets. ✈️ 

Our journey has enabled us to customize our life & focus on our true passions and what really matters to us:

🌟 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘, 𝐀𝐃𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 & 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐓

  
𝑺𝒐, 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒌𝒆𝒚𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒇𝒐𝒓?
 
Organizations & companies with an emphasis on leadership, executive presence, Lifeset & entrepreneurship. We love the impact we can make in front of large crowds & share candidly from our experience as coaches, for over 31 years combined, seeing many win & even more fail.

𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉?

Those needing access to someone at a higher level as a bridge to get where they want to go long term. 🚀  As coaches, we humanize the entrepreneurial experience & help people grow in a holistic way across the foundational areas of life.

Most have access to plenty of general content-- in fact, most people don't need more, they need 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. It's very difficult to create success that's significant if you struggle to channel your energy into growth AND actual results.

𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕?

Our Podcast: https://pod.link/tandemtalks

Our Book: https://www.tandemconsulting.co/our-book/

Insta:Tandem.Consulting

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