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= Sue Parham = Sue Parham an Oregon native is known for her vision, creativity, and leadership, which are best recognized through her former role as vice president of Global Apparel, Accessories and Equipment at Columbia Sportswear, and former US Merchandising and Retail General Merchandising Manager GMM at Nike. On top of her work at both of these companies, Parham founded and served as the president for Lessons Learned, which is a consulting firm that’s emphasis is on, “making organizations more effective and strategically focused from concept-to-consumer.”

Parham holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication from the University of Oregon.

Parham’s Specialties


 * Go-to-market
 * Presentation and Storytelling
 * Brand building
 * Consumer insights
 * Line and assortment planning
 * Design briefing
 * Product Process
 * Product Profitability
 * Leading teams and team building
 * Women's Leadership

US Director of Merchandising Apparel
Senior executive, leading 40 person team in merchandising which Parham drive to the US increasing apparel revenue from $350 million to $1.2 billion.

General Merchandise Manager
Parham worked as a director for space planning, visual merchandising and buying staff for footwear, apparel, and accessories at six Niketown flagship stores and 36 Nike factory stores.

Division Merchandising Manager
Managing all of the Personal Lifestyle and Women’s product categories, Parham also worked with an advertising agency to develop award-winning Women’s “Just Do It” advertising campaign, “You were born a daughter.”

Columbia Sportswear
==== VP Global Design and Merchandising, Apparel, Accessories and Equipment ==== Parham served as an executive member of the $1.7 billion brand; her emphasis was on re-imagining the branding for outdoor apparel, footwear, and global equipment market. Parham obtained the job after working as a consult for Columbia Sportswear for nine months. During her time at Columbia Sportswear she, "Led 100 person team to reposition and deliver innovative, contemporary product aimed at both technical and lifestyle segments across diverse channels and regions"

President of the Board
Women’s Center for Leadership is an organization that helps improve women’s leadership skills, through available programming. Parham’s provides her expertise in coaching business executives to give compelling speeches, which motivate those around them.

Hokey Pokey Wrapping Paper
Parham who was influenced by her children’s fundraising projects decided to reimagine the gift-wrapping industry by creating “Wrap Pack” pads, their goal is to be a better storage option that tradition loose rolls of wrapping paper.

Parham believed that there was a better way to store wrapping paper, she didn’t want something that would save easily and not make a mess. Parham made wrapping pads that would hang on the back of the door, with coordinating ribbons, bows, and gift tags. The wrap packs are 60 square feet of paper, which is about the same as three rolls of tradition wrapping paper.

Parham enlisted local artist Jessica Swift and Katherine “Kath” Waxman to design the patterns on the paper. The paper is made from 30 percent recycled paper and printed with soy inks.

Hokey Pokey wrapping paper started in a kiosk in Washington Square Mall, but the ultimate goal for the company is be web-based distribution.

The name Hokey Pokey was influenced by a sign that Parham saw in a gift store window that read, “What if the hokey pokey is what it’s all about?”, this became Parham’s catchphrase.

Lesson's Learned
Lessons Learned is a consulting firm, that Parham founded in 1999, which provides strategy, training, and presentation work to consumer product brands. Users can choose pre-established programs, or they can establish their agenda that is best for their team or companies needs.

The Compass Project
= Justin Peck Article =

Career
Under career connected Jody Lee Lipes Wikipedia page

Alastair Macaulay, the chief dance critic at The New York Times, described Peck in an article as "the third important choreographer to have emerged in classical ballet this century." In 2014, Peck was named the New York City Ballet's Resident Choreographer, the youngest and only the second ever to hold the position.

Peck's choreography is currently in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel on Broadway which opened April 12th 2018, has received numerous award nominations for his work on the production including a Tony Nomination for Best Choreography. In Peck's choreography process he looked at the original choreography done by Agnes de Mille in 1945, and the 1994 rival with choreography by Sir Kenneth MacMillan, and then started from scratch with his style.

Under Awards

 * In 2013, Peck's Year of the Rabbit was a nomination for the Benois De La Danse.
 * In 2015, Peck's Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes received a Bessie Award for Outstanding Production. This work work received a nomination for the Benois De La Danse in 2016.
 * In 2018, Peck's "Rodger's and Hammerstein's 'Carousel'" was nominated for Best Choreography in the Tony Awards.
 * In 2018, Peck's "Rodger's and Hammerstein's 'Carousel" was nominated for Outstanding Choreography in the Drama Desk Awards.
 * In 2018, Peck's "Rodger's and Hammerstein's 'Carousel" was nominated for Outstanding Choreographer in the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

Ballet 422 (adding to an article about Justin Peck)
Ballet 422, follows Peck's process of choreographing Paz de la Jolla for the New York City Ballet.

In the film, Peck might seem like another struggling artist, but at only 25 Peck is choreographing for New York City Ballet, quickly jumping the ranks from Corps de Ballet to Resident Choreographer for the New York City Ballet. Just the second person to whole the title after Christopher Wheeldon who help the position until for seven years until 2008. The movie was filmed and directed by Jody Lee Pipes, an American cinematographer known for his cinematography in the television show Girls and film Manchester by the Sea.

The film follows Peck's process of the piece going from an idea to a finished project. Focusing on the different aspects such as choreography process, placing the dancers into the piece, staging, and adding in lighting and costumes into the final process. You can see through the entire process Peck's dedication and focus to detail, making sure that everything flows into one unified performance.