Lisa Osborne Blalock

• Publishes monthly magazine focused on international business matters, relevant and helpful to SME’s
• Writes and delivers monthly travel feature in timely manner.

• Researches, organizes and leads educational trips around the world.
• Has successfully sold out multiple guided group tours in a single day.
• Artistically crafts complex foreign itineraries for small groups.
• Handles all aspects of business ownership.
• Manages global teams responsible for ensuring successful coordination and safety of groups.
• Monitors financial performance, set budgets and controlled expenses to provide financial stability and long-term organizational growth.
• Reduces budgetary expenditures by effectively negotiating contracts for more advantageous terms.
• Tracks trends and suggests enhancements to both challenge and refine company's product offerings.
• Reduces operational risks while organizing data to forecast performance trends.
• Negotiates price and service with customers and vendors to decrease expenses and increase profit.
• Cultivates and strengthens lasting client relationships using strong issue resolution and dynamic communication skills.
• Implements business strategies, increasing revenue and effectively targeting new markets.
• Assists in recruiting, hiring and training of team members.
• Interacts well with customers to build connections and nurture relationships.
• Provides strategic oversight of marketing and promotional campaigns to keep campaigns aligned with overall goals and objectives.
• Analyzes market trends and competitor activities to create competitive advantages.
• Develops and implements strategies to increase sales and profitability.

• Performed economic studies to help organizations and businesses make decisions on current or future scenarios, expenditures, business development, and investment.
• Individually and collaboratively collected, analyzed, and presented research to audiences, helping to save municipal tax dollars.
• Wrote summaries for research projects, press releases, and published multiple articles.
• Interpreted data analysis results to draw inferences and conclusions.
• Developed data collection strategies and monitored data quality for optimal research results.
• Wrote research papers, reports, reviews, and summaries regarding travel and economics.
• Analyzed and interpreted patterns and trends.
• Proposed innovative methods for capturing and analyzing customer data.
• Utilized statistical packages to analyze data and create visualizations.

• Represented the Omaha Metro Area in supporting a regional performing arts venue.
• Collaborated with other board members to develop and execute programs and initiatives to advance organizational mission.

Some relevant courses included Marketing Communications and Storytelling, Marketing Analytics, and Product, Price and Customer Experience. Recognized for superior strategic decision-making skills and praised for Capstone contributions in the change of a disruptive product's consumer perception and successful navigation of the company's change management.

The BS in Social Science was an interdisciplinary program that included Public Administration, Political Science, Sociology and Psychology.

Successfully completed an internship with Florida's Ninth Judicial Circuit Office of the State Attorney and at its conclusion was offered a full-time position, which I declined.