Jennifer Jurgens

Jennifer Jurgens

Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area
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About

I’m a catalyst that loves to make everything I touch somehow better, faster, and more…

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Experience

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    1 Bold Step

    Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

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    Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

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    Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

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    West, Southwest & Mid Michigan

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    Spring Lake, MI

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    Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

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    Holland, MI

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    Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

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    Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

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    Sunnyvale, CA

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Education

  • Michigan State University Graphic

    Michigan State University

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    Activities and Societies: Varsity Volleyball Club

    I was into supply chain before supply chain was cool. In fact, I was in it so long ago that they didn't even call it supply chain, they called it materials & logistics management.

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    Activities and Societies: Volleyball Club

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Co-Organizer, Speaker host

    TEDxGrandRapids

    - 5 years 1 month

    Education

    Leadership team and board member for TEDxGrandRapids, 2011 and 2012. Primary responsibilities include overall organization of the event and managing the speakers and their experience in Grand Rapids (www.tedxgrandrapids.org).

    - Speaker; TEDxGrandRapids, May 10, 2012
    http://youtu.be/rOL7PljMfGE

    - Nominated by the TEDxGrandRapids board to represent Grand Rapids in the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar in April, 2012.

  • Organizer

    Save 2nd Base - Beach Volleyball Tournament

    - 4 years 1 month

    Health

    This is an annual event that was started in my honor after being diagnosed with breast cancer late in 2009. Proceeds have benefitted The Army of Women (Dr. Susan Love), Gilda's Club of Grand Rapids and Susan G. Komen

  • Marketing & Social Media Director

    Millennium Park Triathlon

    - 4 years 6 months

    Children

    This is an annual event (8th annual will be on August 1, 2015) held at Millennium Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. All proceeds benefit Kids' Food Basket, Ottawa & Kent County Children's Advocacy Centers, and "Healthy U" at the Grand Rapids YMCA.

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    LaughFest Cabinet Member

    Gilda's Club Grand Rapids

    - 2 years 1 month

    Health

    Gilda's club offers cancer support and grief counseling to patients and families. Laughfest is an annual fundraiser; a week long festival of comedy and the celebration of life and laughter.

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    Board President, local volunteer

    Standup for the Cure

    - 5 years

    Health

    Standup for the Cure is a national organization that promotes health and well being through the sport of stand up paddling and by raising money for breast cancer research and local screenings at events across the US. www.suftc.org

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    Regional Council Member

    Inforum

    - 3 years 7 months

    Economic Empowerment

    Inforum combines strategic connections, proven professional development programs, a respected forum for new ideas, and original research to accelerate careers for women and boost talent initiatives for companies.

Projects

  • Nu Tek - Salesforce.com customization & implementation

    This project spans the initial review of the organization's current CRM solution, audit of the sales' processes, selection of a new CRM solution, customization, employee training and launch. Next steps include email marketing and data integration.

  • SLD Read Strategic Marketing Plan

    Through a partnership with Fineline Creative and 834 Design & Marketing, 1 Bold Step worked with local non-profit SLD Read (formerly known as the Specialized Language Development Center) on a complete re-branding including name, logo, tagline and additional supporting marketing media.

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  • Premier Cost Recovery Website & Salesforce Integration

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    Complete redesign of the website (with help from Fineline Creative on design) on the WordPress platform, content development including white papers and case studies, integration of web-to-lead forms including the audit recovery calculator (required additional customization to the Lead and Account objects in salesforce).

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  • LLamasoft Marketing Automation

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    Complete marketing automation implementation - Analysis of current Silverpop integration, sales process and website platform resulting in a switch to Act-On for marketing automation and WordPress for the web platform. Working with Murdoch and internal LLamasoft personnel for the web design and content, I integrated the web contact forms with Act-On, Reachforce (live data append) and salesforce.com.

    The Reachforce integration required customization to the Lead and Account object along…

    Complete marketing automation implementation - Analysis of current Silverpop integration, sales process and website platform resulting in a switch to Act-On for marketing automation and WordPress for the web platform. Working with Murdoch and internal LLamasoft personnel for the web design and content, I integrated the web contact forms with Act-On, Reachforce (live data append) and salesforce.com.

    The Reachforce integration required customization to the Lead and Account object along with various lead assignment rules based on company vertical (SIC), geography and size.

    Other creators
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Honors & Awards

  • 2023 Corp! Magazine Most Valuable Entrepreneur

    Corp! Magazine

    The Corp! Magazine’s Most Valuable Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Young Professionals awards honor those who have made Michigan a better place to live and work through their careers, their community involvement and their passion.

    https://www.corpmagazine.com/industry/business/corp-mvp-winners-gather-to-share-their-success/

  • 2022 Michigan Celebrates Small Business "50 Companies to Watch"

    Michigan Celebrates Small Business

    Michigan Celebrates Small Business (MCSB) is the most prestigious small business awards program in the state of Michigan. The mission of the program is to honor and recognize Michigan’s small business people as well as the champions and advocates that support them.

  • Grand Rapids Business Journal - 50 Most Influential Women Award

    Grand Rapids Business Journal

  • Susan G. Komen Excellence in Leadership Award

    Susan G. Komen

  • Grand Rapids Business Journal - 50 Most Influential Women Award

    Grand Rapids Business Journal

Languages

  • English

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Organizations

  • Small Business Association of Michigan

    Member, Leadership Council Representative

    - Present

    SBAM is the third largest lobbying entity in the state of Michigan and a great group representing over 30,000 small businesses. As a representative of the leadership council, I get to help direct programming and interact with other business owners and legislators on topics that most impact small businesses.

  • Michigan Cancer Consortium

    membership committee member

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    The MCC is a statewide, broad-based partnership that strives to include all interested public and private organizations and provides a forum for collaboration (communication, coordination, and the sharing of resources) to reduce the burden of cancer among the citizens of Michigan by achieving the Consortium's research-based and results-oriented cancer prevention and control priorities. As a member of the Membership Committee I will be encouraging others to join the organization.

  • TEDxMuskegon

    Speaker

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    Presented a TED-style talk titled "Yes they're fake. My real ones tried to kill me". http://youtu.be/covOrnvapPI

  • AimWest (formerly glimaWest)

    Founding Board Member

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    Founding board member and event chairperson for glimaWest (Now AimWest – www.aimwest.org), The Interactive Association of West Michigan

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