Laura Campbell & Associates, Business Growth Advisory Firm, Celebrates 20 Years; Company has Served more than 500 New and Existing Businesses Nationwide

Laura Campbell & Associates, a business growth advisory firm founded in 1997, is pleased to announce it is celebrating its 20th anniversary. During the last two decades, the company has assisted more than 500 companies and start-ups in their growth and development, and also helped guide numerous private equity investors and individual executive coaching clients. While the firm serves clients from coast to coast, Laura Campbell & Associates is headquartered in the thriving business district of Brentwood, Tenn., just outside of Nashville.

“It was 20 years ago that we set out to help businesses and individuals achieve their growth goals while building companies that make a difference in the world. I am pleased to report we have done just that,” stated Laura Campbell, Founder and CEO. “From helping build a multibillion-dollar company that began as a few scribbles on a piece of paper to coaching young executives on their next career moves, the triumphs of our clients have been truly rewarding. We thank the many individuals who have contributed to our success and look forward to all that we will accomplish in our next 20 years.”

The firm’s comprehensive services include strategic planning; business acceleration assessments; executive coaching; sales and business development; marketing and communications; and fundraising strategy and investor relations. While many Laura Campbell & Associates clients are focused on healthcare, technology and business-to-business services, the firm has a wealth of experience in other industries.

“Many of our client relationships involve assisting businesses with better organizing and communicating their positioning and using their limited financial resources more wisely, as well as attracting needed funding,” said Campbell. “While many of our executive clients rank among the best-of-the-best in the country, we draw upon deep experience to help individuals from all backgrounds and at all levels in their careers. An important part of our mission is giving back to the community and making our services accessible and economical for all – especially the next generation of business executives or individuals looking to maximize their impact in the business world.”

Executive Coaching and Business Assessment Expansion
Laura Campbell & Associates has recently expanded the amount of time allocated to working with executive coaching clients across the country via telephone and Skype. There has also been a strong demand for the company’s business acceleration assessment services, which involve identifying actions for quick growth results. The firm’s proven track record is built upon highly individualized services, all of which are implemented under the personal direction of Campbell and supported by an experienced team of writers, analysts, marketers and graphic designers.

Campbell is a nationally recognized thought leader in launching and growing businesses – as an entrepreneur, a venture capitalist, a strategist, an author and a corporate communicator for both public and private companies. In addition to serving as a board member of numerous companies and organizations, Campbell’s experience includes serving as the first female Partner of one of the South’s leading venture capital firms, Massey Burch, where she worked alongside the late Jack C. Massey, who founded and listed three companies on the New York Stock Exchange. Campbell’s background also includes launching and serving as President of the Nashville Health Care Council, a highly successful and first-of-its-kind economic development organization.

Clients Praise Firm’s Effectiveness
“Over the past two decades, Laura Campbell and her team have assisted many of the companies I have invested in with growing their businesses,” said Luke Simons, investor and former Co-head of investment banking firm J.C. Bradford & Co. “Laura’s insights and unique background in building companies, finance and communications are always extremely valuable. That’s why I recommend Laura time and time again. She is gifted in working with entrepreneurial ventures and a real pro at helping businesses communicate with both investors and customers. The value and personal attention she provides to clients is outstanding.”

According to Dick Ragsdale, Co-founder of Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH) and founder of more than a dozen businesses, “Having known Laura Campbell for more than 20 years, what impresses me the most are her extremely high integrity and innate understanding of how to grow businesses. Laura has that rare combination of strategic, financial and communications skills that can envision and articulate the future of a business while still staying grounded in today’s financial realities.”

“Laura’s expertise in understanding an ever-changing, complex healthcare landscape is unparalleled. She has assisted me in more than six different healthcare companies in the last 20 years, and her results are nothing short of phenomenal,” stated serial entrepreneur Phil Suiter. “She exhibits the highest integrity, most complete confidentiality and the best return of investment that you will ever receive on her strategies. She is exemplary!”

For more information about Laura Campbell & Associates, visit www.laura-campbell.com, email laura@laura-campbell.com or call 615.579.6599.

What Clients Say:
“We will continue working with Laura Campbell forever and amen, and I will be hiring her again at my next company, wherever and whenever that may be. I cannot recommend Laura or her work any more highly.”

“Laura and her team produce quality work on time and on budget. Even more importantly, they take ownership of your success.”

“Laura was extremely skilled in assessing our messaging and strategic positioning in the marketplace and providing a solid foundation for future growth. Her work has better aligned our team, transformed our marketing efforts and positively impacted sales.”

“Laura Campbell is a business growth, strategy and marketing guru with both a great touch for and phenomenal experience with entrepreneurial companies. Laura’s sensibilities for what and how both customers and investors think about companies are second-to-none because Laura was a VC in the not-too-distant past.”

“Laura and her team were skilled in what it takes to start a new business. Laura was able to prioritize the marketing projects and tasks necessary to bring a new company from concept to incorporation.”

“I have been thoroughly impressed with Laura’s knowledge and professionalism, the quality of her work, and the way she personally handles the details of client engagements. Laura anticipates needs, effectively manages projects and provides a great value to customers.”

 

Laura Campbell Featured in Panel to Promote Inclusivity in Investing

Laura Campbell, an experienced venture capitalist, angel investor and advisor to hundreds of business ventures was highlighted at the recent Tech Inclusion Forum.

In the panel discussion “Making Venture Capital Inclusive,” Campbell shared her views about lack of inclusivity in investing, inroads being made and possible long-term solutions to this issue.

Part of 14-event series of national and international forums, the Tech Inclusion Forum was organized by San Francisco-based Change Catalyst and Black in Tech Nashville.

Google Fiber was the supporting sponsor of the event, which was held at Belmont University’s Janet Ayers Academic Center on August 29, 2017.
 

Laura Campbell Joins Board of Trustees of Franklin Road Academy

Laura Campbell has been elected to the Board of Trustees of Franklin Road Academy, a pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, coeducational independent school. Franklin Road Academy provides a challenging educational experience in an inclusive Christian environment with an unwavering commitment to develop leaders of integrity and purpose.

Ms. Campbell has been a very steady and positive voice for FRA over the years. She was part of the parent interview panel for the Head of School and served as a member of the Board of Trustees Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Committee. Ms. Campbell has more than two decades of experience launching and growing businesses−as an entrepreneur, a venture capitalist, a strategist and a corporate communicator for both public and private companies. She has served as President & CEO of Laura Campbell & Associates since the business growth advisory firm’s inception in 1997.

During her career, Laura has assisted more than 250 new ventures and existing businesses in their growth and development. Prior to her work with Laura Campbell & Associates, Ms. Campbell founded the Nashville Health Care Council, was a partner at Massey Burch Capital Corporation and directed investor relations, marketing, and public relations for Wessex Corporation. Some of the many boards she has served are Nashville Society of Financial Analysts, Vanderbilt University Health Care Management Programs and Belmont University Center for Entrepreneurship Women’s Programs. She was selected as a top “40 under 40” by the Tennessean and Business Nashville. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rice University where she was a Board of Governors Scholar.

Ms. Campbell’s strengths lie in her ability to help businesses identify, articulate and implement their often cutting edge visions. She is known for her organizational abilities with an eye on the big picture, as well as her solid grounding in the financial realities and details of new business development and existing business management. Her selection as a member of the parent group that interviewed Head of School candidates as well as her contributions to the Strategic Planning Committee, show her dedication of time and talent to FRA. Through her business and leadership background, she has developed strengths and skills that will be valuable assets to the continued development of the FRA Board of Trustees.

Campbell Named to InCharge Healthcare 2015 List of Industry Movers and Shakers

As published in Medical News, “Nashville healthcare insider Laura Campbell has more than two decades of experience in the local healthcare and venture capital industries and has assisted more than 250 ventures and existing businesses in their growth and development. Prior to launching her consulting firm in 1997, she was instrumental in founding the Nashville Health Care Council and served as Partner for Massey Burch Capital Corp. Earlier in her career, she directed investor relations and public relations for Wessex Corp., a publicly traded healthcare company.

Laura Campbell Named to Medical News InCharge Healthcare

Ms. Campbell was once again named to this prestigious list of industry movers and shakers.

Says Medical News, “Nashville healthcare insider Laura Campbell has more than two decades of experience in the local healthcare and venture capital industries and has assisted more than 250 new ventures and existing businesses in their growth and development. Prior to launching her consulting firm in 1997, she founded the Nashville Health Care Council and served as partner for Massey Burch Capital Corp. Earlier in her career, she directed investor relations, marketing and public relations for Wessex Corp., a publicly traded healthcare company.”