Speaking Up Your Game, LLC

Helped 250+ busy professionals grow their careers, their income and their influence in the workplace by increasing their confidence, skills and credibility when speaking and presenting.  

We offer 4 services:  1) 1:1 Coaching,  2) Team Workshops,  3) Cohort Coaching and 4) Our Signature Online Course to help business professionals and teams maximize their impact with communication.  

We've developed a UNIQUE process for helping you understand the REAL reasons you get nervous and how to transform those nerves into confidence and excitement.

We've developed a 4 PART FORMULA to help you drive more VALUE when you speak and present - to your organization, clients and customers when you speak and present thereby helping you win more business, serve more people, make more money and grow your impact.

We've coached since 2018 and early in our days were rated as one of Thumbtack's Top Professional Public Speaking Coaches for 2019, 2020 and 2021 with 40+ 5 star reviews.

Founder & Business Speaking Coach

Trend Wise Insights, LLC

We help small & medium size businesses leverage their existing data for more actionable insights to grow revenue and margin.  Small businesses have lots of data, but often, it requires a savvy skillset to know how to leverage to bring insights and action 

Examples:  
1) Marketing Analytics - we help ensure Google Analytics is capturing your web traffic data properly to gain more insights to know where you customers are coming from.  H
2) Customer Analytics - discover your best customers so you lean in and grow their accounts.  We also help you uncover who is 'at risk' of churning and why so you can course correct and retain revenue.
3) Sales Analytics - understanding the bottlenecks in your sales process can unlock greater revenue growth.

Chief Insights Guy

Amyris

Lead the analytics and insights team to support our growth with scalable action from insights for 9 different Shopify stores, Klaviyo accounts and Google Analytics accounts.

Lead DTC data platform build project across 9 brands to ingest, transform, join and standardize data to create automated PowerBI dashboards, integrating data from Google Analytics, DTC store and ESP.  

Facilitate the migration and transition for all Ecommerce brands to implementing and adopting Google Analytics 4.

Director, Analytics

Coca-Cola Bottling Company UNITED, Inc.

Primarily responsible for creating scaled and commercialized solutions to help us grow top line revenue and margin by leveraging data.   Includes product recommendation engines, customer clustering, churn modeling, reporting and feedback solutions.

Manager - Outlet Execution and Insights

Key responsibility is ensuring quality advanced analytics and machine learning to transfer outputs to action within the organization.  Build initiatives from pilot to long-term, sustainable processes across channels of Coke United’s business.  
* Winners of 2017 Data Analytics Business Impact Award from the Technology Association of Georgia for implementation of a product recommendation engine.
* Finalist of 2019 Data Analytics Business Impact Award from the Technology Association of Georgia for predictive ordering solution implementation.

Go-to-Market Innovation Manager

Coca-Cola Refreshments

Leverage business analytics to determine, implement and steward the strategies (presenting results) that help Coca-Cola prospect and retain more local market Food Service and Retail Customers.
- Recommended, implemented and commercialized key improvements to customer retention strategy resulting in greater retention of customers as well as increased revenue and profit.  
- Implemented performance management changes for inside sales team that drove 19% improvement in increased productivity for obtaining new business leads.
- Responsible for new data discovery and analysis which led to new recommendations, performance management routines and process improvements that resulted in increased revenue as well as faster customer onboarding for new accounts.
- Led pilot program through design, creation and implementation for a sales support role for new customer onboarding resulting in 20% improvement in sales performance for front-line sales team.
- Led division in content creation of supplemental training materials to improve front line sales effectiveness.
- Completed Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training following completion of 2 projects delivering over $5M in revenue over 2 years.

Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Primary responsibilities included:
- Conducted comprehensive analysis and provided insights surrounding business performance and key company initiatives for Coca-Cola's national retail customers (WalMart, Kroger, Walgreens, etc)
- Created and developed innovate business solution to enhance performance management routines and solve for gaps in business performance
- Supported development of company annual business plan by providing key analyses

Business Analysis Manager - National Retail Sales

- Delivered analysis and insights surrounding internal and competitive strategies, initiatives and products, creating actionable insights for senior leaders.
- Developed actionable scorecards, reports and routines to drive profitable business growth
- Initiator of providing solutions for new methods of data collection and reporting that create time-efficiencies which are easily analyzed and reported to organization leaders for faster decision making.

Business Analyst, Marketplace, Competitive and Business Intelligence

Primarily responsible for maintaining and growing retail accounts.  Grew volume 14% and profit 9% in 4 months by understanding customer goals, leveraging great customer service and building client relationships.

Market Development Manager

Marcus & Millichap

Compensated as an investment real estate broker, selling over $90M in commercial real estate.  Built and maintained relationships with private and institutional commercial real estate investors.  Leveraged financial analysis, market analysis and DCF Modeling to underwrite commercial property portfolio values.

Investment Sales Broker

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA

Invested time in students to help grow their leadership, character and faith through mentoring and speaking.  Responsible for fundraising salary and ministry budget through personal donations.

Campus Staff

Generating ROI from better insights from data. Growing your Confidence and Credibility at Work through Better Speaking and Presenting.

I run two businesses:  1) helping professionals grow their confidence and skills when it comes to communication and speaking in business.  2) helping small businesses leverage their existing data to gain clarity and take impactful action thru actionable reports, insights and dashboards.  

Speaking Up Your Game started 6+ years ago and now helped over 500+ workplace professionals.  Today, we have a customizable 1:1 process as well as a digital online course focused on helping busy professionals get the critical elements of communication right to advance their careers.

Trend Wise Insights uses data & analytics to improve revenue and profit.  Experienced in leading collaborative business environments to affect change.  Seasoned in financial planning, statistics, performing advanced analytics and driving actionable insights for positive business outcomes.  Project management experience in commercializing analytic solutions, utilizing Six Sigma and driving business change.

Cooper Camak

Seattle Foundation

At Seattle Foundation, I lead strategic HR initiatives that integrate performance management, process optimization, and data visualization to enhance organizational effectiveness. I developed and implemented a real-time performance review process that increased participation by 13%, and built a Power BI dashboard to deliver on-demand visibility into key HR metrics for executive leadership. I also redesigned recruitment workflows within the HRIS, reducing time-to-fill by 15%, and partnered with cross-functional teams to align people strategies with mission-driven goals. My role centers on using data and systems to drive better decision-making and create scalable, people-first solutions

People & Culture Manager 

JustAnswer

At JustAnswer, a global expert marketplace with over 600 employees, I served as a strategic partner to leadership across departments, supporting people analytics, engagement, and systems initiatives. I transformed engagement survey data into a CEO communication strategy that improved sentiment scores by 12% and led a recognition program redesign that contributed to a 34% increase in eNPS over 10 months. I also spearheaded a data quality project, digitizing over 300 employee records to enhance compliance and reporting accuracy. My focus was on aligning HR programs with business outcomes through a combination of analytical insight and process design.

Sr. People Partner

PeakHR

The Scaling HR program is designed for experienced HR pros who want to have a bigger business impact by scaling their HR experience and influence outside of their domain. Reach new heights!

PeakHR is a cohort-based training program for the next generation of progressive HR practitioners, elevating the role by empowering the leaders of tomorrow, and educating the broader industry.

Featuring modern, practical courses from a diverse group of the industry’s leading voices, our programming is intentionally inclusive and radically authentic, creating a new opportunity for practical career education.

Cohort Member

A New Wave of HR

Transformed raw audience and program data into actionable insights to optimize leadership development and engagement strategies. Applied data analysis, stakeholder engagement, and visualization skills to drive measurable business outcomes.

Notable Achievements:
● Analyzed social media engagement metrics using Excel to identify trends and optimize content strategy, resulting in a 1912% increase in followers and 55K+ views.

● Collected, cleaned, and analyzed feedback from 20+ program surveys via SurveyMonkey and Excel, producing data-driven recommendations that enhanced leadership development programs and improved participant satisfaction.

● Co-facilitated a client-facing DEIB roundtable for 10+ employees, leveraging qualitative feedback to strengthen executive engagement and reinforce the company’s commitment to an inclusive workplace culture.

People Insights Consultant

RAPP

In this role, I supported core HR operations and system-level process improvements in a fast-paced marketing and CRM agency environment. I conducted data analysis on offboarding trends and implemented a standardized workflow that improved compliance and reduced inefficiencies. I also conducted HRIS audits to improve data accuracy and contributed to engagement efforts by helping translate employee feedback into actionable insights. This role strengthened my ability to apply operational thinking and analytics to day-to-day people practices.

HR Operations Analyst (HR Generalist)

iTradeNetwork, Inc.

At iTradeNetwork, I supported both HR and customer operations in a hybrid role that sharpened my skills in process design, data management, and systems training. I developed a custom Excel-based workflow that reconciled over a year’s worth of executive expense data, resulting in $1K in cost savings and 100% audit compliance. I quickly ramped up across three proprietary systems, enabling independent support delivery within a month, and created customer-facing knowledge content that reduced support ticket volume and improved efficiency. This role laid the groundwork for my strengths in operational precision and scalable documentation.

Customer Operations Analyst

HR Receptionist (Receptionist)

I’m an HR Strategy & Analytics Leader who thrives at the intersection of people, systems, and data. My work is driven by a simple belief: HR should be both human and high-performing. With more than a decade of experience spanning talent management, people analytics, HR operations, and program delivery, I help organizations build scalable, people-first solutions that improve employee experience and drive measurable business results.

My unique value lies in blending broad HR generalist expertise with technical fluency in analytics, systems, and automation. I’ve led performance management redesigns, optimized recruitment workflows, developed executive dashboards in Power BI, and turned employee sentiment data into actionable communication strategies. I understand the full employee lifecycle and how to align HR functions with company goals—whether that means increasing participation in performance reviews, raising eNPS scores, or improving time-to-fill through system improvements.

I’m passionate about transforming HR through:
• Data-informed decision-making
• People-first program design
• Scalable systems and HRIS optimization
• Strategic use of tools like Excel, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, and AI
• Agile, Lean, and hybrid project/program management methodologies
• Cross-functional collaboration with executives, IT, Finance, and People teams

My CliftonStrengths—Strategic, Ideation, Context, Achiever, and Command—reflect how I lead: with vision, curiosity, practicality, and decisive execution. I’m known for seeing patterns others miss, designing systems that work in real life (not just on paper), and bringing clarity to complexity.

Whether I’m leading a data migration, building a recognition program, or advising leadership on employee insights, I bring both heart and rigor to the work. I’m especially energized by high-growth, mission-driven environments that value innovation, inclusivity, and operational excellence.

Let’s connect if you’re building the future of work and want to make it more strategic, scalable, and human.

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