Orchid Holistic Search

🌿 Founder of a boutique, high-impact executive search firm, personally billing $500K–$1M annually while leading a team dedicated to placing purpose-driven leaders in natural products, wellness, and sustainability. Partnering with conscious companies (🌱Startup - $500M) and Private Equity firms to build leadership teams that drive long-term success.

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President

Blanco y Negro Sostenible

Connecting our community to their food, and to one another. One bite at a time.  Leading growth strategy for a 2.5 acre regenerative woman-owned farm, packaged goods, retail food and experiences business in the Cartago province of Costa Rica.

Vice President of Growth & Culture 

Regenerative Magic Retreats

Taking busy executives out of their comfort zones and into the wild, lush beauty of Costa Rican nature.  Curated groups will explore farming, food as medicine, nature and authenticity as sources of connection and community.  Filling our cup regenerates our own personal magic. ✨

Founder

Venteon Finance

Managed a split-desk (business development & recruitment). Specialized in accounting, finance and HR professionals for direct-hire and contract placement in the Metro Detroit - Ann Arbor areas. Pioneered new market segments of not-for-profit, education and healthcare. Implemented strategic marketing initiatives to grow and retain client base.

Sales & Recruitment Executive

Let’s find YOUR people! 💎🌺🔎

For a decade and a half, I have had the honor of stewarding conscious hiring for Natural CPG brands and manufacturers, Private Equity firms and other adjacent orgs doing good in the world. We build leadership teams that align with mission and fuel growth. At Orchid Holistic Search, we take on just a few searches at a time to go deep and get it right for our Clients. No mass emails. No bots. Just precision matchmaking for purpose-driven brands with an average time to fill of 36 days. ⚡️

🌿 Regenerative Hiring: Living on a farm in Costa Rica has reinforced what I’ve always known: growth thrives with care, diversity, and the right conditions. So do leadership teams.

✨ Beyond hiring, leaders need S P A C E to thrive. I curate wellness & personal growth retreats in Costa Rica for women in industry, giving founders and executives time to pause, realign with purpose, and lead with clarity. In 2023, I was honored with the New Hope Joy Award, nominated by retreat guests who found deep transformation & joy in these experiences.

Angela Marturano

Beth Henkes, MHA

The Idea Hound®

We spot opportunity, track a plan, and fetch success for anyone chasing a brilliant idea.

See what we’ve unleashed below, and at www.theideahound.com.

Featured Speaker, The Green Marketing Academy™

Developed a process for high-output event production where none existed before…in less than a week. We then produced 55 events in 52 days utilizing 120 volunteers and tripling impressions.

Created a cause-based social community for dog lovers and advocates, producing 85K reaches and 25K engagements over 8 short campaigns, resulting in $75K in donations for rescue organizations.

Built a community outreach marketing plan in 24 hours that anchored education offerings for 5 years.

Owner

Oversaw Go to Customer, an evolutionary customer experience project portfolio of five complex, cross-functional programs reporting to leadership in 3 divisions. Implemented change management and baseline documentation using Lean methodology to save time, money, and reduce defects.

• Served as the co-project lead and liaison to 50 stakeholders and 750 users on a $650K cross-functional technology tool that completed on time and budget, exceeding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

•	Interviewed 63 retail employees over 30 hours to research customer experiences with visual display; created detailed personas and presented a perspective to cross-divisional leaders.

• Assembled a 15-person team to improve a multi-divisional process, documenting standards and removing three process steps to save $8K in payroll costs and 175 hours.

Program Manager, Voice of the Customer, Retail Operations

Scheduled, led, and assisted with all aspects of Lean process improvement training and projects for 240-person Marketing department.

• Developed and led 13 experiential training sessions for 600 attendees over 6 months, teaching Lean Principles to promote value stream awareness and improve processes in daily work.

•	Oversaw a 69 step go-to-market (GTM) campaign process evolution, resulting in baseline standard work creation over 6 months and consultation on a new GTM approach.

• Managed marketing Kaizen program and 20 Kaizen Facilitators; over 500 hours monthly time savings accrued in the first 6 months of the program.

Process Improvement Specialist, Marketing

Drove sales in the footwear department by improving selling behaviors, successfully executing events, and promoting the co-op membership.

• Collaborated with store team through quarterly training sessions and daily feedback to produce double-digit growth in Footwear over one year, placing first in the 8-store market in two categories. 

• Subject Matter Expert (Footwear): Fit Basics Class Instructor; “Fit Guru” REI Expert Advice; Wirecutter Magazine contributor; and REI Co-op Journal.

Footwear Sales Lead

CityDog Magazine

Contributing Writer: Dog's Eye View

in collaboration with Sawyer & Winston 

Together, the three of us assessed the dog friendliness of neighborhoods throughout the Seattle area on a quarterly basis. Our articles reviewed the towns and neighborhoods of: Bainbridge Island, Bellevue, Edmonds, Kirkland, Madison Park, South Lake Union, Woodinville and others including a stop in San Francisco.

Freelance Writer

Puget Sound Surgical Center

Built the marketing strategy, analyzed competitors, and refreshed the brand to attract new patients and increase revenue in a national and international market.

• Rebranded the company, including a $10K website improvement, changes to live seminars, the addition of advertising and digital channels for a planned 30% increase in new patients.

• Created and launched the inaugural volunteer program with 1000 bariatric patients, providing support for current and prospective patients.

• Completed 86 hours of Certified Medical Education (CME) training in Diabetes and Bariatrics.

Marketing Director

Eaglemont

Increased brand awareness and sales to the public through new and existing partnerships with conservation-minded organizations across the nation. 

• Planned and produced a month-long tour over four states:  25 live events in community spaces and media outlets; interaction with hundreds of loyal and new fans; culminating in a product launch party for 200 guests with Jungle Jack Hanna in collaboration with the Bronx Zoo in New York City.

• Secured contracts with top three industry wholesale retailers and partnered nationwide with nonprofit education divisions, doubling product sales in 9 months.

Director of Programming and Business Development

📣I banish bad process to wrangle chaos and amplify brand.

Many people say they are a "Master of Chaos." I truly bring order to disorder with expected organization and assessment skills, but add creative flair that allows me to achieve unexpected success in challenging circumstances. 

Working with creative people, often in creative spaces, is one of my greatest joys (extra bonus for dogs!). 

🌀 As a former Production Stage Manager in live production, I handle multiple moving parts, tight deadlines, and crisis situations with ease. My years in service spaces gives me exceptional customer experience prowess, I build teams that provide views into all parts of a process to solve problems and create improvements while emphasizing unheard voices.

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The Founder and CEO of The Idea Hound, I love working with clients who want to unleash greatness in their brand, processes, and projects.

We spot opportunity, track a plan, and fetch success for anyone chasing a brilliant idea. 

Learn more about us here on LinkedIn and at https://www.theideahound.com/

Founder & CEO

Strategy | Process | Projects
We spot opportunity, track a plan, and fetch success for anyone chasing a brilliant idea.

See what we’ve unleashed below, and at www.theideahound.com.

Featured Speaker, The Green Marketing Academy™

Developed a process for high-output event production where none existed before…in less than a week. We then produced 55 events in 52 days utilizing 120 volunteers and tripling impressions.

Created a cause-based social community for dog lovers and advocates, producing 85K reaches and 25K engagements over 8 short campaigns, resulting in $75K in donations for rescue organizations.

Built a community outreach marketing plan in 24 hours that anchored education offerings for 5 years.

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