About Renée

Renée Ward is an accomplished management consultant, advertising, sales & marketing  executive, coach, mentor, public speaker and trainer with quantifiable executive level sales/business development experience.

She’s well equipped to lead teams and/or carry a bag.

Her efforts to date have generated over $301 million in revenues for a plethora of companies in many industries.  She has sold a wide range of B2B services from software technology, SaaS enterprise systems, to traditional, digital and social media advertising.
She’s adept at presenting before Fortune 100 boards as well as little mom and pop shops. 

Renée’s had an outstanding management career with several innovative Fortune 500 companies, and runs her own highly effective sales and marketing consulting company. 
She was a Vice President of Business Development for Spherion owned JobOptions.com, an early leader in the online classified network space.

She also served as Vice President for TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications (parent of monster.com) and has done extensive print/digital advertising consulting with newspaper and media companies across the country.
Renée is a recognized public speaker and has been featured on the CBS Early Show, NBC Today Show, CBS Evening News, CNN, Comcast Cable, and UPN News.

She has been quoted and featured in thousands of print publications such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, Kiplinger, the Bottom Line, AARP magazine, US News and World Report, Christian Science Monitor, Seventeen, and Newsweek to name a few. 
She launched the first national online career center for businesses that recruit young adults in the high school and college age groups and followed that success with a site  to match businesses with job seekers 50 and older.

She was Co-Chair of the Workforce Investment Board of Santa Ana, CA.
She is well known for her ability to work cross-functionally through team building and leveraging resources for group initiatives; ability to craft and deliver high level presentations, proposals and pitches; broad-based business, industry, IT, Internet and new media knowledge.

She is highly endorsed on Linkedin for strategic partnerships, leadership and selling skills.

Renée attended Northwestern University and is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a BA in Broadcast Journalism.