Courtney Eimerman-Wallace is a seasoned product and technology leader with over a decade of experience delivering high-impact digital solutions across the public and private sectors. As Principal of Wildcard Product Studio, she has led initiatives for clients including the United States Digital Service, Color of Change, TrussWorks, Alloy (acquired by Civitech), and major consumer brands like Kroger, Hilton, and Coca-Cola.
Courtney was the founding product hire at tEQuitable, a Y Combinator-backed startup (Winter 2018), where she helped launch core features that drove a 48% increase in user task completion and shaped the company’s product vision.
Throughout her career, she has delivered measurable results — cutting processing times by 10x for Department of Defense services impacting 430,000 military personnel annually, improving customer communications by 42%, and boosting Veterans healthcare application success by over 250,000 submissions.
Certified in Scrum Product Ownership and trained through ThePowerMBA and Product Institute, Courtney brings a user-centered, results-driven approach to scaling product ecosystems and modernizing legacy systems.More...
Vanessa Barksdale
Principal Consultant@Modernist Communication Strategies
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Vanessa Barksdale is the Principal Consultant at Modernist Communication Strategies, where she specializes in the development and implementation of sales and marketing systems for small-to-medium sized social-impact organizations. With over 8 years of experience, she has successfully led projects that minimize friction and redundancy, and maximize project impact through sales enablement and revenue operations. Vanessa is a certified Digital Marketing Professional, as well as a certified Revenue Operations professional. Outside of work, she is an avid traveler and amateur painter, making art out of blank canvasses.More...