Pneuma

Connecting deserving brands with their next customers 

3rd Fastest Growing Company in the Rocky Mountain Region
16th Fastest Growing Marketing Agency in the US
170th Fastest Growing Company in the US

Founder

Cancer Treatment Centers of America (acquired by City of Hope)

Management Consultant

TEDx

Working with TEDxWabashCollege has truly been a blessing.

I've had the chance to test my leadership and management skills with a group of 30 students across Wabash College's campus, and also learn more about Event Planning and Marketing.

Our event has seen much success over it's four years, growing from 100 attendees to over 350 attendees, and selling out Wabash College's largest event venue.

We've also seen much professional growth, as our NPS Score has reached a new high of 78 over our 2018-2019 year.

If you're interested in sponsoring TEDxWabashCollege, or speaking at our next event, please contact me directly!

Event Organizer

My first position with TEDxWabashCollege was in the role of a curator.

For our 2018 event, I researched prominent topics on the TED platform, as well as topics that would be prominent to our local community.

With this information, I moved forward and contacted individuals that I believed would be powerful speakers to have at our event.

Once I decided on the three speakers I would like to bring to the event, I worked with these speakers to outline and develop their talks in the TED format. 

Then, it was the day of the event! I prepped each speaker on professional speaker techniques derived from TED to ensure their talk reached its potential.

Curator

Eli Lilly and Company

Corporate Financial Reporting

Founder, Pneuma Media | I turn $1 into $8.12 with a content-first SEO Strategy | DM Me for a Free SEO Audit | John 3:30

At Pneuma, we’re more than a marketing agency - we’re your long-term growth partner in The Search Economy.

Every day, billions of people search for answers, solutions, and opportunities online. We help businesses show up, stand out, and become the clear choice when it matters most, regardless of where people are searching. Through specific Paid, SEO, and Website tactics, we build sustainable systems designed for measurable growth - not quick wins or fleeting spikes.

But what sets us apart isn’t just our expertise—it’s our commitment to partnership. We treat your business like our own because your growth is our growth. That means aligning with your goals, investing in your long-term success, and showing up with care, clarity, and consistency every step of the way.

We’re not here to deliver just "campaigns" and "deliverables"; we’re here to build something meaningful, sustainable, and worth celebrating—together.

David W. Riggs

Hate is a strong word, but it might be the only one to describe how I feel about "traditional" 1:1s

Nothing got under my skin more than to wake up 30 mins early on a tuesday morning to tell my manager about my to-do list, so they could feel productive.

So, when I started Pneuma, I did my best to spin that model on it's head. 

1:1s shouldn't be about work. And if you're talking about a task list for more than 5 minutes, you're doing it wrong. 

Some thoughts below :)

What’s Happening In My World I used to think no one cared about what I was actually doing day to day. I assumed subscribers (you) only wanted the clea

Open article: Building people > building companies by David W. Riggs • 4 min read

Today would be a great day to ask yourself why you have notifications on

4 years into building Pneuma...

Plenty of reasons to have slack and email notifications on...

... and not a single one of them have changed my mind

I've done this for so long I assumed everyone else does it as well, but I don't think that's the case

I'll jump on a meeting with a vendor, and during the meeting the individual sharing the screen has to swipe away notifications every few minutes.

Why? What's the point?

Schedule time to check your notifications, or notifications will end up scheduling your entire day

PS - Use an app like Opal to block socials from your phone to not get distracted

PPS - Use Apple's DND mode to simply turn off everything.

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Wild Flow Consulting

I help coaches and consultants automate the boring admin so they can focus on making an impact

Lead Consultant, Founder

Friends of the Dillon Ranger District

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Advisor

Not Mad, Just Misunderstood

Empowering teams to learn more about other cultures and be more inclusive.

Clients:
Arapahoe Basin Ski Area
Friends of the Dillon Ranger District

Mukuyu Collective - Community of Practice Committee

Founder and Lead DEI Consultant

Improving mental and personal health of diverse employees
Auditing the hiring pipeline to increase diverse applicants
Educating and challenging long-standing team members for continued allyship

Race, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Specialist

Koda and Crush Marketing

We help build profitable businesses

We help small tech companies through branding and inbound marketing. This reduces sales resistance and cost, all while improving inbound marketing and reducing sales cost.

CEO and Lead Digital Marketer

Future Founders

Startup Bootcamp Participant

BookLive

Senior Marketing Manager

Thin Air Media

Contractor role to represent people that are first-generation, Asian-American, LGBTQ+, and business. These meetings will educate outdoor companies looking to improve diversity in their companies and in their marketing/advertising efforts.

DEI Committee Member

Peerly Outdoors

• Created a pitch deck and won a gAlpha competition in December for Overall Idea
• Developing a customer discover plan to maximize marketing budgets
• Collaboration with Future Founders, a non-profit business accelerator program

CEO, Founder

LeafFilter Gutter Protection

○	Growth from 0.5 raw leads per hour to about 2 raw leads per hour
○	Trained new team members the anatomy of a pitch

Event Marketing Specialist

I'm a DEI strategist and organizational development specialist who's been shaking things up in the outdoor industry since 2017. As a first-generation Filipina-American from the Colorado mountains, I bring professional expertise and lived experience to my organizational culture transformation and talent management work.

My superpower? Turning DEI initiatives into tangible, measurable change. I geek out over building inclusive talent pipelines, designing employee engagement programs, and crafting change management strategies that stick. At REI, I transformed our workforce demographics, increasing LGBTQ+ representation to 25% and boosting BIPOC employee retention from zero to ten months. Our employee satisfaction scores? They shot through the roof.

I'm a culture architect and people operations leader who believes in data-driven DEI solutions. Whether conducting organizational assessments, developing employee resource groups (ERGs), or implementing unconscious bias training, I focus on creating sustainable systems change. I've scaled DEI frameworks across organizations of 450+ employees, managed succession planning initiatives, and built inclusive leadership development programs that doubled retention rates.

I am pursuing my Outdoor Industry MBA while consulting organizations on workforce development and DEIB strategy. When I'm not diving into talent analytics or facilitating inclusive leadership workshops, you'll find me presenting at conferences (like DisruptHR Denver to 500+ HR leaders) or developing multicultural communication frameworks that help teams thrive.

Core competencies:

😍 Organizational Development & Change Management
😍 Talent Acquisition & Retention Strategy
😍 DEI Program Implementation
😍 Employee Experience Design
😍 Learning & Development
😍 Culture Transformation

Multilingual in: 
English (Native) 
Tagalog/Filipino (Conversational) 
Spanish (Conversational)

My collaborative leadership style combines my Gallup strengths of being Futuristic, Individualistic, Activator, Restorative, and Responsibility-driven.

Let's connect if you're passionate about building equitable workplaces where everyone can thrive!"

Carmela Montenegro

I’m okay if I’m never financially rich because my friends introduce me with

“Have you met Carm? She’s the best!”

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