Karen has been helping organizations tell their stories and achieve their business goals through strategic marketing/ communications/PR for more than 30 years. Her forte is taking complex concepts and distilling them into simple verbal/visual messaging. Based in Denver and managing client projects across the country, her work has received national recognition for strategy, efficacy, and creative execution. From the area’s largest hospital system to the nation’s biggest bank for rural cooperatives to the world’s top seed company, Karen’s experience also dips into start-ups, associations, and live entertainment/venue promotion.

Her sweet spot is large projects that require an integral working relationship with the client — co-creating a unique communications solution that reaches past previous benchmarks and into new means of capturing target audiences. Karen also relishes in forging alliances between unlikely partners — allowing each to extend the other’s awareness, reach, and budget. 

Dr. Catherine Lada, CAE is a Certified Association Executive with more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. She has successfully launched and grown dozens of new products and services as well as brands, teams, departments, and organizations. Cathy is highly focused on making the member experience enjoyable and profitable as well as efficient across all touchpoints. She combines this focus along with skill in usability design and deep knowledge of marketing to create product road maps and integrated marketing, communications, and sales strategies that get real business results. At her last association, Cathy led the charge in creating, launching, and marketing a new tech product, surpassing key performance indicators from 27% to 58% within months. The marketing team she launched at a privately held multi-million-dollar company led to 13% year-over-year growth for three years. 

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Cathy has a doctoral degree in information systems and communications, while her dissertation focused on scaling impact in nonprofits and social enterprises. She resides in the Washington, DC metro area.

Linda has a highly successful track record in marketing and communications strategies that extend brand reach and generate positive ROI. She launched her communications career as a journalist, including seven years as a national news reporter at USA Today, before transitioning to public relations, focusing on national grassroots and consumer programs and crisis communications.

Linda has served as division VP of Marketing, Public and Government Relations for a Fortune 100 hospital company; Chief Marketing Officer for a statewide nonprofit consumer tech start-up; Division Director of Business Development for a national senior living and care organization; and a Marketing Strategy Consultant. Achievements such as a two-year growth of 73% in brand awareness or a 10% year-over-year volume jump stem from leveraging data-driven insights to create savvy strategies and messaging that resonate with their intended audiences through digital, traditional and emerging channels.

Leslie is an experienced, integrated brand communications pro who deploys a combination of creativity, strategic insight, data science, new technologies and relationships for clients seeking a way to stand out. Passionate and optimistic about the challenges businesses face today, Leslie increases brand awareness, secures prime publicity placement, catalyzes social impact, and develops solid strategies that launch and grow market share for her clients.

Leslie moved from Charlotte, North Carolina [by way of Florida] to Denver, Colorado 18 years ago and couldn't be more at home. Like many Coloradans, she is a yoga-loving hiker, biker, camper, skier, snowshoer, and anything that gets her out enjoying nature.  Additional professional and personal inspiration comes from her love of music, film, fashion, food, contemporary art, and philanthropy.