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Team

Team

Marketing consultants, web developers and graphic designers specializing in traditional and digital marketing

Seize the day. Share the love.

team photo of everyone standing in front of the Blue Door Consulting building

At Blue Door Consulting, this is the code we live by. It is {literally} our daily mission to make the most of every moment, every project and every client interaction. We want everyone (including each other) to feel cared for in a manner that brings our core values to life: brutal honesty, collaboration, responsibility and idea-producing with a long-term approach.

It’s not that we don’t make mistakes—we do. But seizing the day and sharing the love means we own those mistakes and we make them right. This is what makes us unique. It’s one of the reasons both clients and team members say they work with us.

Playing to our strengths

Clients also say we’re “real.” We take that as high praise.

We strive to be true to our individual selves, playing to our strengths when working with clients and each other. When team members join Blue Door Consulting, they take the Clifton StrengthsFinder® assessment to discover their unique strengths. (If you’re unacquainted with StrengthsFinder methodology, it emphasizes what’s right with people. Polling organization Gallup has looked at engagement rates among employees who use their strengths and found team members are 8 times more engaged when leaders and team members use a strengths-based approach. [1] By understanding each team member’s aptitudes, our team can tap into one another’s strengths for team and client projects. (You can check out each person’s strengths below.)

With this approach, everyone wins: Blue Door Consulting team members dig into satisfying projects that showcase their talents. Clients enjoy deliverables created with the zest that comes with doing strengths-based work.


[1] “Strengths Dashboard.” Gallup’s Leadership Research. Gallup, n.d. Web. 03 Jan. 2016.

Heidi Strand

Heidi Strand is Co-owner and Co-founder of Blue Door Consulting, a strategic marketing consulting firm in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Brenda Haines

Brenda is a Co-owner and Consultant. Her love of brainstorming and strategy is paralleled only by her passion for learning and desire for results.

Tavia Gavinski

Meet Tavia Gavinski, Art Director for Blue Door Consulting’s elite team of graphic designers and visual guru of all of our client solutions.

Leah Van Rooy

Leah Van Rooy is a Senior Marketing Consultant at Blue Door Consulting specializing in social media and project management.

Ann Timms

Meet Ann Timms, Senior Marketing Consultant with Blue Door Consulting. Ann is a marketing guru, content creator and creative copywriter for any industry.

Mark Cyrulik

This is Mark Cyrulik, Blue Door’s Software Engineering Manager, programmer and resident fix-it guy.

Erin Ryan

Meet Erin Ryan, Senior Graphic Designer with Blue Door Consulting. Erin’s wheelhouse is visual expression and creativity through colors, images and fonts.

Daniel Shepherd

Meet Daniel Shepherd, Business Strategy Consultant for Blue Door Consulting. Daniel loves the good, the bad and the ugly of digital design.

Sara Boddy

Sara Boddy is a Business Strategy Consultant with Blue Door Consulting. She is a digital marketing rock star, specializing in SEO, SEM and online analytics.

Jason Toney

If you need fantastic audio, photography, videography or visually rocking storytelling, you need Blue Door Consulting’s Senior Multimedia Consultant, Jason Toney.

Dan McElroy

Introducing Dan McElroy, Blue Door Consulting’s Assistant Controller and (non) resident logistics and finance guy. Dan makes numbers fun for clients and coworkers.

Kayla Borcovan

Meet Kayla Borcovan, Blue Door Consulting Senior Web Developer extraordinaire with an eye for design and an ear and brain for language.

Alyssa Riegert

Alyssa Riegert is part of the graphic design team at Blue Door Consulting, bringing client solutions to life with a creative mix of science and art.

Molly Thompson

Molly Thompson, Culture Consultant & Trainer at Blue Door Consulting, is an expert in seizing the day and sharing the love.

Jessica Davis

Marketing Consultant Jessica Davis is Blue Door Consulting's breaker of things, testing websites and proofreading, plus digital and social marketing.

Gretel Achterberg

As Blue Door Consulting’s Technical Support Consultant, Gretel Achterberg keeps websites, servers and systems running – managing hosting, migrations, updates and more.

Sarah Zimmerman

Sarah Zimmerman, Blue Door Consulting senior marketing consultant, specializes in communication strategies and storytelling to help clients grow their brands.

Molly Frederick

Molly Frederick is a Marketing Consultant at Blue Door Consulting, specializing in digital and social marketing, crafting content and project management.

Taylor Fischer

Taylor Fischer is a Content Specialist who loves using copy to help brands stand out from the noise and connect with their audience.

Caitlyn Phillips

Caitlyn Phillips, an Associate Marketing Consultant at Blue Door Consulting, is passionate about telling her clients’ story through social media.

Trey Tracy

Chad “Trey” Tracy, a Full-Stack Developer at Blue Door Consulting has an eye for design and loves a good challenge.

Kayla Lulloff

Meet Kayla Lulloff, Graphic Designer at Blue Door Consulting. She pairs outlandish creativity with strategic thinking to create beautiful and functional designs.

Jessica Gauger

Jessica Gauger is a Associate Marketing Consultant with Blue Door Consulting with a knack for creative website user interfaces.

Megan Leiser

Megan Leiser is the Senior Office Manager/Business Manager at Blue Door Consulting, where she takes a holistic approach to understanding the needs of our team and our clients in order to facilitate success.

Chris Boudreaux

Chris Boudreaux is a Full-Stack Developer with Blue Door Consulting with a unique talent for creative problem solving.

Madison Smith

Madison Smith is an Associate Marketing Consultant at Blue Door Consulting with a passion for learning new trends and putting them into action.

Hannah Duchesne

Hannah Duchesne is a marketing consultant enthusiastic about creative brand positioning and nailing messaging to underscore what makes a company great.

Rachel Bingham

Rachel is a strategic branding and marketing professional with more than 11 years of digital and print experience working in various industries.

Patrick Ryan

Patrick Ryan, a Marketing Consultant at Blue Door Consulting, loves executing a creative strategy and running with his client’s vision beyond the endzone.

Mike Rogers

Meet Mike Rogers, an Interactive Designer with Blue Door Consulting. He loves getting to know our clients and offering them strategic and thoughtful design-based solutions.

Rachel Hoppes

Rachel Hoppes, a graphic designer for Blue Door Consulting, loves ideation and brainstorming, and seeing ideas come to life.

Sydney Johnson

As the Web QA Tester at Blue Door Consulting, Sydney Johnson ensures high user experience for all audiences.

Geena Russo

Geena Russo, Senior Marketing Consultant, was born for this field.

Joel Haase

Joel Haase is a Graphic Designer who loves telling stories through visuals that make you go hmm.

Kelsey Tyree

Kelsey Tyree is a marketing consultant at Blue Door Consulting. She knows a little bit about a lot of things and loves helping wherever she can.

Nicole Bruene Vukelich

Nicole Bruene Vukelich is a Senior Marketing Consultant at Blue Door Consulting who can quickly pivot from strategic planning to drafting creative copy.

Pete Jones

Pete Jones, Senior Marketing Consultant at Blue Door Consulting, focuses on growth marketing strategies that deliver for customers.

Sunnie Pargo

Sunnie Pargo, Web Project Manager at Blue Door Consulting, has expertise in managing complex web projects.

Brent Schuettpelz

Brent Schuettpelz is a technical projects manager with Blue Door Consulting who likes to dig into the details of using technology.

Caroline Mayberry

Caroline Mayberry is a senior technical consultant at Blue Door Consulting.

Katie Wilks

Katie Wilks is a senior marketing consultant at Blue Door Consulting with a focus on campaign and content strategy, SEO, and creative project management.

Mike Dockum

Senior Marketing Consultant Mike Dockum employs a blend of analytical and creative skills to help clients understand their audiences and refine their brand and marketing strategies accordingly.

Jodi Van Nocker

Jodi Van Nocker is our project specialist who enjoys creating customer solutions.

Tracy Freund

Tracy Freund is a Technical Support Consultant with Blue Door Consulting who will provide technical support for internal and client projects.

Ashley Puetz

Ashley Puetz is an interactive designer at Blue Door Consulting where she designs digital and print projects as part of the creative team.

Rick Kolstad

Rick Kolstad is a Senior Technical Consultant with a passion for helping clients find technology solutions.

Brian Kolstad

Brian Kolstad is a Full-Stack Developer who loves to explore new technology.

Bridget Buckman

Bridget Buckman is a Senior Web Project Manager who enjoys optimizing end-user experiences and moving result-oriented technical solutions forward.

Melissa Worthington

Melissa Worthington is a Marketing Consultant at Blue Door Consulting. She is a strategy nerd who loves a good deep dive into the “why” and then putting together all the pieces and parts that make our clients shine.

Holly Wachtendonk

Holly is a Senior Marketing Consultant with a knack for delivering effective marketing and communication strategies that make an emotional connection between the target and the brand.

Shane Nyman

Shane Nyman, a creative copywriter and content strategist, is a former journalist with a lifelong love of storytelling.