Welcoming Erin Wolff to Ellevated Outcomes
Though we are well into May, I’ll belatedly say: I hope that your April showers have brought May flowers. Because ours really have, and I’m so thankful. One of these flowers is our newest colleague Erin Wolff…
People have been asking how we’re finding star colleagues, especially when it feels like the hiring climate is so challenging. We follow the hiring process we teach clients. And I do something that’s made all the difference: I meditate on it. I envision who our future colleague is: their current job, family, goals and motivations, where they hang out, and their centers of influence.
This activity paints a colorful picture of who we’re looking for. And more importantly, it tells us who will help us find them*. So once we’d illustrated our dream hire, brand designer Bethany Bauman, said: “I know just the person…”
About Erin
Erin Wolff joins Ellevated Outcomes as our newest Client Strategist with the ideal range of experiences in corporate retail, consulting, and building hospitality brands. She’s managed product categories and teams for UnCommonGoods and Rodale Inc; consulted for FTD and ProFlowers; and is an entrepreneur herself, owning eco-hospitality businesses Ironwood & Pomelo Grove.
She is equally analytical and creative. For example, while attending undergrad at UVA, she majored in chemistry. But in her downtime, she choreographed for the Dance Company and sewing costumes for the drama department. She thrives in the fast paced and challenging world of entrepreneurship, tackling work with a level-headed and solution-oriented approach. And so important to Ellevated Outcomes: Erin loves the technical work, but she’s an empathetic soul and leads with people first.
Erin lives with her husband, baby girl, and 3 cats in her 1960s East Nashville ranch home. She loves doing 1000+ piece puzzles, boogie boarding at the beach, and baking cakes.
Her strategy superpower is product management and growth: assessing a business to understand which products to cut, where to do more, and spotting opportunities to create new.
We are really, really happy to have Erin. I recently spoke to one of her former colleagues, who said something I’ve never heard before in a reference call:
When you work with Erin, all the sudden the impact your team is able to have together, becomes so much more than the sum of its parts.
What. a. compliment.
Please join me in welcoming Erin!