Standing Partnership
Melissa Lackey, MBA, is the Group President, Owner, and Chief Executive Officer of Standing Partnership, a company dedicated to addressing complex marketing and communications challenges to drive business growth. Melissa has extensive experience in strategic consulting, marketing, and corporate communications, holding various leadership roles at prominent organizations, including the St. Louis Business Journal Leadership Trust and Edward Jones. Educational qualifications include an MBA from Maryville University of Saint Louis and a B.S. in Journalism from The University of Kansas. Early career experiences include roles at Mark Twain Bancshares, First Community Credit Union, and Nestlé Purina North America.
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Standing Partnership
Standing Partnership is a marketing and corporate communications consulting firm that excels at strategy and execution. Our consultants design thoughtful plans and implement goal-specific programs for marketing and sales alignment, digital marketing, and corporate communications. We work with business leaders in agriculture, health care, professional services, manufacturing and other major industries to accelerate growth by tying marketing to the bottom line. We show you how to break down silos between marketing and sales, and get everyone working towards shared business goals. Using a growth marketing approach, we gather insight into your prospects’ purchasing decisions and develop plans to engage them. And, we continually test the effectiveness and fine-tune programs to maximize ROI. We also help organizations gain market and societal acceptance through messaging, brand identity, executive communications, stakeholder engagement, corporate social responsibility reporting, and crisis preparedness and response. We focus on action, outcome and impact for real results. We bring the brightest minds together to solve problems. We challenge assumptions to find innovative solutions.