Braindate by e180

-Promoted to Enterprise Account Executive to focus on large-scale clientele and event portfolios

- Sold $1.7M+ with a very active and growing pipeline (LexisNexis, Cloudflare, United Airlines, Signature Travel Network, TechCrunch ++)

-Strength: Quickly gain trust, build and nurture deep relationships, stakeholder presentations, and constantly creatively strategizing how to grow prospects/clients into holistic event-design plans and agreements

Enterprise Account Executive

-Re-positioned as sales team has been divided into existing and new business roles

-Inclusive of previous role: brought in  ~$1.25M + of value and sales 

-Strength: Quickly gain trust, build relationships, and constantly strategize how to grow incoming leads into holistic event design plans

Account Executive

-Re-positioned as focus is on launching new product to market

-Converted previous single event clients to 3-year deals

-Reactivated a client and grew from a single virtual event to a (22) event, 3-year agreement
   -Single largest contract in company history

-Brought in new client with a multi-event contract

-Designed and led external workshops and presentations at large industry event (IMEX- Oct 2022) on the different pillars of learning and fostering intentional connection amongst communities and organizations

-Travel on site to events for business development, account nurturing, and facilitation initiatives

Account Manager

-Nurture and amplify existing partnership agreements

-Build out sales enablement strategy per partner (including social media initiatives)

-Develop different avenues of partnership opportunities between media, tech, agency, events, etc.

-Design and host external digital microevents

Partnership Manager

Your Story, by Jillian

-Created on the side due to my love of storytelling and painting pictures with words

-Offer my voice (written and spoken) to facilitate dialogue, ghostwrite speeches, present destinations, properties, organizations, brand stories, events ++ in a highly expressive and emotive way

◦◦ Storyteller ◦◦ Love Letter Crafter ◦◦ Community Creator ◦◦

Showcare

-Facilitate dialogue and nurture community, internally and externally

-Propose, write, and manage: thought leadership articles, social media, video scripts, pitches, internal communications

-Organize and facilitate Showcare hosted live, virtual, panel events and focus groups

-Selected to work on sales pilot project for building and selling customizable sponsorship packages 

-Work closely with sales and bring my experience into how we present and build excitement around our brand and services

Community Manager

JPdL

-Traveled all around presenting the amazing possibilities of holding business events in Montreal, as well as Canada.  (Destination Canada Business Events, Tourism Montréal, FICP, PCMA, ICCA, IMEX, IBTM, MPI)

-Created customized programs for clients across many industries showcasing what our city can do best!

-Met with local hotels to show what a DMC can do + offer unique ways to sell our city

-Developed relationships with clients through incoming leads or hunting

-Collaborated with team, partners, and vendors to create unique programs for clients

Sales Manager - Business Event Specialist - Destination Management (DMC)

DAVIDsTEA

In addition to my daily intensive French courses, I worked as a tea guide for several reasons: 1) practice French with many types of people 2) I love David's Tea! 3) get to know the community

 Tea Guide

Giftcraft

Giftcraft is a leading importer/wholesaler company that provides the latest trends in Fashion, Giftware and Home Decor.
-Developed sales territory in lower NY

-Responsible for opening 50+ new accounts





www.giftcraft.com

Territory Manager

Mats Inc.

-Developed and cultivated relationships under newly created "national accounts- fashion retail" vertical

-Responsible for all Mats Inc. (entrance systems, matting, contract flooring, and more), BOLON, and EGE materials

-Prospected and presented to senior-level end users, store design, and construction teams across North America (traveled ~50-75% month)

National Account Manager, Fashion Retail Vertical

-Responsible for BOLON by VIIIR commercial flooring collection

-Trained all North American agents (traveled ~50-75% month) on our product and presented our brand and story to architecture and design (A&D) firms across North America

-Created and implemented BOLON sales materials/resources

-Performed Dumalock duties listed below and traveled extensively throughout four provinces for direct sales to RONA stores

National Sales Manager Agents/Key Accounts (Bolon)

-Responsible for Dumalock wall and ceiling panels

-Nurtured key accounts: RONA, Do It Best, True Value, Sears.com, Kmart.com, Costco.com, Wayfair.com

-Generated sales and interest at trade shows (RONA, Do It Best, True Value

-Enlarged Canadian distribution to both coasts by garnering enough interest at RONA trade show

-Created North American targeted marketing, technical, and instructional materials for retailers, customers, and trade shows

Product Manager

RCA Music Group/Sony Music Entertainment

-Selected to conceive, direct, and implement a comprehensive, multi-layered archiving system of documents and media items for Clive Davis (Chief Creative Officer of Sony Music Entertainment) and the publicity department

-Wrote and organized press reports, created daily clip packets, clipped magazines and articles related to RCA’s musicians

Publicity Intern

Deerkill Day Camp

(Summer 2009/2010)
Constructed and taught six separate archery curricula for campers ages 7-14

Head of Archery Department

When I was little and attending my brother's soccer games, I'd walk up to a group of unfamiliar kids with my head held high, hold out my snack, and say: 
"Hi I'm Jillian. Would you like an M&M?
...Would you like to be my friend?"  

And so began my lifelong love of community, relationship building, partnerships, and thinking outside the box. 

***

✨My career has spanned across luxury architectural sales, tourism, hospitality, destination and experiential selling, community building, tech and enterprise sales. Some interwoven, others independent.  

✨I'm insatiably curious and at my "sparkliest" when meeting new people, presenting, brainstorming, collaborating, and creating magic as a result.

✨I live in the "what if?" but with a strategic lens. A beautiful tree of possibilities grows from a seed of an idea. And then I subsequently activate people's excitement.

✨I have no issue "asking for it"-- be it the close, a multi-year sale, an upsell, or a ride to the airport with a not-yet-known fellow event attendee when no taxis were around. 
Raised in the belief of: "What's the worst that can happen?" and "Ask politely without the expectation of receiving." This has served me well both personally and professionally. 
 
✨I see everything through the wide-eyed wonder of a kid, and carry that playfulness of possibility to any adventure that lays ahead.

✨I love connecting dots, be it people, brands, experiences, or new ideas.
Seeing people leave engaged, inspired, feeling a sense of belonging, motivated, or brimming with ideas after we connect, lights me up. 

✨Words are my superpower--spoken or written. 

✨I write love letters, but not in the traditional sense. I paint with words. It's how I got into my dream school, landed the internship and jobs, close deals, and wrote speeches that have made people cry. 

✨I've also been called an:
-energizer
-creative strategist
-community builder
-idea accelerator
-dot connector
-the liaison of weak ties
 
...I'll take it!

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