Vance Crowe

Founder

2021 - Current

I am the founder of Legacy Interviews, we create the opportunity for future generations to know their family history. Legacy Interviews are a professionally recorded video conversation with an individual or couple designed to capture the stories, memories and history of your family. Give future generations the opportunity to understand where they came from in timeless video or leather-bound autobiography. what industry should I say I am in for LinkedIn.

Appointed Director

2024

Appointed as an outside board member to the FCS Financials. Selected to serve on the Risk Committee.

Legacy Interviews; Public Speaking

2019

Vance interviews people to help them record tell their life stories. In a private studio in Saint Louis or over an online platform, Vance helps people articulate the wisdom they have gained through their childhood, career, marriage, parenting and the legacy they want to leave behind.

Simplifier | Founder

2012

Built a communications strategy firm advising companies on how to talk about themselves in relatable terms and leverage their perceived disadvantages as market differentiators. Offered training in negotiations, social media tactics, and provided business intelligence services. Interest-based negotiations with Boeing, Saint Louis Bank, and Farm Bureaus and Ag Co-Ops throughout the United States and Canada.

Board Of Directors

2018 - 2022

Helped the bank bring together new management, rebranding of the entire organization and led sales training.

Director of Millennial Engagement

2014 - 2019

Director of Millennial Engagement

2014 - 2018

Designed and executed a four year global consumer engagement campaign to change the public perception of Monsanto and modern agricultural technologies. Our efforts helped temper regulation, built brand loyalty and is considered revolutionary in the agriculture industry. - Public spokesperson invited to speak before more than 200 external audiences reaching more than 70,000 people during keynotes, lectures and workshops. Spoke on behalf of Monsanto at numerous universities throughout the United States, including MIT, UC Berkeley, the Wharton School of Business, as well speaking to leading industry organizations throughout agriculture. - Addressed farming organizations throughout the United States including the American Farm Bureau, commodity trade organizations, Young Farmer and Rancher programs. Efforts alerted farmers of consumer concerns, galvanized the industry around efforts to change perceptions, and empowered individuals to create thousands of hours of podcasts, blogs, and other social media content that explained the farmer perspective. - Utilize social media to orchestrate unorthodox situations for scientists and executives to speak to highly targeted audiences on Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, and podcasts totalling more that achieved over 4.25 million minutes of audience attention.  - Managed staff and facilitated a cross-functional team that utilized a decentralized network strategy to alter curriculum for K-12 public education, prompted thousands of farmers to advocate, utilized data analytics, and have expanded into the health/fitness community in order to highlight the value of Monsanto and its products. - Recipient of the 2017 Smart Risk Taking Award and 2017 Excellent Communicator of the Year award; inducted as an honorary member of the Alpha Gamma Rho agricultural fraternity.

Millennial Engagement at Bayer Crop Sciences

2018 - 2019

Communications Strategist

2010 - 2012

Knowledge management (HRSSC) and communications strategy development (HRSLO) to improving leadership pipeline management. • Created comprehensive and unifying marketing initiative involving change management, strategic communications, to raise awareness of services offered by the WBG to staff and to improve understanding and commitment to large scale change within the organization. • Conceptualize, build, coordinate and deliver trainings to over 45 HRSSC staff to off-shore sophisticated HR Process transactions from HQ offices to Chennai, India. Working with subject matter experts to assure high quality service delivery. • Co-led international events for over 120 World Bank/IFC Country Directors/Sector Directors, Country Managers and senior management to coordinate institutional strategy with country office challenges resulting in knowledge sharing and network strengthening. • Assist with overall project implementation including conducting an in-depth resource analysis and communicated project demands with management.

Media Relations

2008 - 2010

Served as primary media relations liaison to the faculty at the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations. In this position I trained professors to communicate effectively with print and broadcast media to increase public awareness of the University’s expertise in international affairs. • Conducted trainings with university faculty to develop their media-interview skills resulting in increased number of faculty interviews with national media including: Voice of America, Reuters, The Christian Science Monitor etc. • Ghost authored opinion editorials topics on behalf of faculty and deans for publication in The Newark Star-Ledger, The Washington Times, and for translation and publication to be run in Chinese periodicals; topics included political-economic policy decisions and bi-lateral relations between the U.S. and China. • Analyzed local and national press coverage of Seton Hall interests valued at $134M annually, wrote and distributed press releases, and cultivated relationships with journalists to garner positive coverage of university faculty and stories. • Coordinated with the U.S. State Department for positive news coverage of Iraqi government delegation visit to the University.

Business Support and Communications Coordinator

2006 - 2008

Coordinated and directed business communications for National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate station. Created advertisements, solicited businesses, managed volunteers, served as intermittent radio journalist and organization spokesperson. • Initiated innovative long-term public relations plan that resulted in an increase of membership and donations by more than 30% totaling more than $250,000 annually. • Created and executed 6 marketing tools resulting in a decrease in staff time dedicated to donor solicitation by over 50%. •Established and executed crisis communication plan; served as official organization spokesperson. • Trained over 120 staff and volunteers to effectively write and produce radio show utilizing professional radio techniques.

Public Health Volunteer

2006 - 2006

Served as public health volunteer in a small village in Kenya. Lived on a neo-natal clinic compound with no electricity or running water in an attempt to integrate into the community and provide malaria and HIV/AIDS prevention education as well as water purification consultations.