Lee Collinge

Background

About Lee Collinge

As senior communication and operations lead, I specialize in building team systems and advising senior leaders to enhance alignment, collaboration, prioritization and connection. My focus is to create a responsive platform for teams and individuals to work well together. Using my background in brand, communications and social marketing, I also provide audience-centric strategic and governance counsel on keystone campaigns. Together with my program and systems management responsibilities, I work to ensure the diverse Employee Comms teams take an integrated and data-driven approach that serves business and employee needs. I have experience in: • Strategic internal and external communication & marketing planning/implementation • Brand management and journalism • Equity, Diversity and Inclusion • Training and facilitation • Project management & team leadership • Organizational development A few of my favorite projects include: • Building from scratch a project and channel performance tracking tool to help teams better manage priorities and integrate planning. • Growing project management skills and operationalizing governance best practices across the Employee Communications organization ensuring consistent ways-of-working and reducing confusion and performance roadblocks. • Providing Project Management for the cross-functional global post-Covid “Return to Office” campaign team charged with inspiring employees to begin a hybrid work schedule while ensuring safety protocols were clearly understood. • Expanding an initiative from one community to four, helping to design stakeholder engagement, communication and staff on-boarding that ultimately benefited more than Oregonians. • Leading the team providing brand storytelling, customer and staff engagement, organizational development, and leadership coaching to a grocery leader that has fostered lasting brand loyalty. • Mentoring early career professionals to hone their craft and trust their instincts.