Kendra Dixon

Sr. Program Manager, Anywhere Accelerator
2018 - 2021
Techstars Anywhere is a (mostly) virtual accelerator. It follows the same proven approach as all of Techstars accelerators, but doesn’t require founders to relocate. It’s designed for exceptional founders who have a business or personal constraint that would prevent them from relocating to a new city for an accelerator program. My focus is managing operations and delivering the best possible experience for our founders.

2014 - 2018

Integrator / Fractional COO / Business Consultant
2014 - 2018
"Visionaries have groundbreaking ideas. Integrators make those ideas a reality. This explosive combination is the key to getting everything you want out of your business. It worked for Disney...It worked for Ford. It can work for you." from the book Rocket Fuel by Gino Wickman & Mark Winters There are plenty of great ideas out there and I am blessed to work with passionate entrepreneurs (Visionary) who know what they want, and see the value in my skills (Integrator) to help with the execution. Taking the ideas and concepts of a visionary and turning them into a reality – not just a reality, but PROFITABLE and SCALABLE - that's my passion...and I'm good at it. For example, working with my client, Lars Hedenborg, we scaled his coaching and training company from concept to $125k MRR and built a completely distributed team across 7 states in less than 3 years.

2012 - 2016

Founder
2012 - 2016
What started out as a project to help my husband turn his knowledge into an online training program and workshop, quickly became a product development agency as I learned how many others wanted help creating these same type of products. Within one year of starting down this journey, I built a virtual team and we supported clients around the world, from Ireland, US, Canada and Australia. Burnout is real and being a solo founder took its toll. I dissolved my agency after 4 years.

2011 - 2013

Americas SMB Operations Process Analyst
2011 - 2013
Supporting and managing SMB eCommerce projects

2008 - 2010

Project Manager / Account Manager
2008 - 2010
Managed internet marketing projects in the b2b and b2c space for mid, large and enterprise level businesses in North America. Projects include all aspects of making the search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc) sell for our clients. This includes consulting, training and services for both content and technical issues, including organic optimization and Pay Per Click Advertising.

2005 - 2008

Project Manager / Owner
2005 - 2008
Worked with clients on the following projects: Internet Marketing (Computer Consulting Company) Web Seminar Development and Management (Real Estate Consultant) Trade Show Coordination (Software Company) Training Material and Video Development (Computer Consulting Company) Sales and Marketing into the Higher Education Marketplace (Software Company)

2000 - 2004

Program Manager
2000 - 2004
• Worked closely with Cisco Systems’ worldwide sales organization, technology groups and executive staff to coordinate, facilitate and deliver customer briefing events. • Accelerated the sales process and enhanced sales growth by creating and facilitating a highly personalized customer experience, which optimized Cisco's expertise and expanded business opportunities and relationships.

1998 - 2000

Director of Marketing and Client Services
1998 - 2000
Worked with clients to create custom-designed mystery shopping programs that provided actionable, measurable information to improve the quality of customer satisfaction.

1996 - 1998

Community Development Coordinator
1996 - 1998
While with the San Jose Sharks Community Development my love for project management began as I worked on projects large and small to raise funds and create programs to benefit the community. Whether it was a silent auction, golf tournament or SharksFest, I was in the trenches making sure every detail was attended to and the project was a success.

Head of Operations at Parabol