Emily Keeney

Emily Keeney is a Seattle-based photographer specializing in bringing brands to life through lively, expressive imagery. She draws on humanity and shared experience, bringing together brand strategy and art. Having a background in education and retail leadership, Emily is passionate about fostering growth-oriented environments and working to bring out the best in those she serves. She’s living her best life when bringing power and joy to women through collaborative creativity and partnership. Optimism and grit are foundations of her work ethic.

- Recruits, hires and trains top talent to pioneer a new market for one of the nation's fastest growing retail brands - Leads a team of store managers and their employees through Evereve core values, including one travel territory - Oversees, evaluates and advises on store operations - Develops and grows Trendsend business, a rapidly expanding personalized mail-based styling service sourced from brick and mortar stores - Analyzes key performance indicators to advance teams to growing needs of each business - Develops individualized manager growth plans, leveraging strengths and identifying areas of growth - Collaborates with home office departments, director team, and company executives to facilitate communication and execution with store teams - Creates learning tools, including contribution to company training guides

- Recruited and trained a team of eleven employees in preparation for store opening, communicating construction needs with home office, and developing in-store teams while maintaining operational tasks in a 2-week period - Store reached 135% of sales goals in the first year, with a comp growth of 30% in the second, creating a culture of raving customers and invested employees - Responsible for comprehensive aspects of business including hiring and development, store operations, and community outreach - Ensured timely resolution of issues through independent problem solving and strategic planning

Complete responsibility for this $1.6 million location, ranked #6 out of 48 stores. Lead and directly oversee the development of a team of 18 with complete operational responsibility. Developed initiatives and goals based on sales analysis that led to success in meeting annual goals. As the manager, created turnover in order to create strong employee culture through direct conversations and strategic staffing. Result: no turnover in a 7 month period compared to 67% industry-average. Worked closely with company founder to design and implement social media strategy that was implemented nationally.

Founder and Stylist Created and implemented business plan for image consulting firm Created and regularly maintained blog, EmilyAnneStyle.com Regularly utilized social media platforms, including Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter Created personalized wardrobe checklists for each client Designed and executed “wardrobe cleanses,” shopping trips, and styling sessions with clients Created business and marketing materials Interviewed and wrote articles about local boutique owners in “Boutique of the Week” regular article Achieved blog hit rate of 150 daily viewers this time period.

- Developed and taught conceptual units - Planned and taught multiple sections of three different classes - Worked in teams to develop curricular and behavioral strategies - Created documents that aid in instruction - Maintained student enthusiasm for content through instructional strategies - Used educational software to log student activity and maintain communication

IL Type 09 Teaching Certificate