Nicole D. Wilde

Nicole Wilde founded Wilde Growth in 2005 after completing her MBA in marketing and entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Nicole's passion for making things happen dates back to the early 1990s during her undergraduate years in Colorado, where she found a nonprofit organization to raise environmental awareness through hip concerts featuring well known artists and a monthly magazine. It worked.

Since then Nicole has worked througout the US and internationally taking small seeds of ideas and making them real. She has worked in the Caribbean helping communities create and fund health related community development projects. Working in Oregon she helped start a national silent sport festival. In Milwaukee Nicole assisted inner city business owners to develop business ideas and worked with commercial districts to brand their Main Streets.

Outside of Wilde Growth, past professional marketing roles Nicole has held include marketing director for a performing arts organization, alumni director for a private college, international marketing manager for aviation OEM, director of an SBA Women's Business Center, and events manager for a city foundation.

Nicole possesses a keen creative sense, is highly resourceful and maintains a strong network of professionals from which she collaborates on many projects. She has experience working with private business, government and nonprofit organizations in the US and abroad.

Outside of her consulting work, Nicole teaches Marketing at UMD.