Cosmic Sister Zoe Helene
United States
- Current
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- Founder, Cosmic Sister™ at Cosmic Sister, Inc.
- Past
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- Owner at VisionRose, LLC
- Chief Creative Officer at EchoMail, Inc.
- Chief Creative Officer at General Interactive - The E-Mail Company™
- Artistic Director at Millennium Online Communities
- Artistic Director at Millennium Productions - Art & Information Technology™
- Director of Design/Member of Ensemble at Charlotte Shakespeare Company
- Education
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- Brandeis University
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Zoe Helene’s Summary
Cosmic Sister Zoe Helene is a multidisciplinary artist, sustainability pro-activist and socially responsible entrepreneur. Zoe has a passion for connecting kindred-spirit trailblazers in mutually supportive ways. She believes in working collectively to empower mutual visions while enhancing the personal journey of each individual.
Zoe expresses fluently across several artistic mediums. Much of her world view is informed and inspired by archetypal psychology as the language of soul. Zoe feels called to explore the frontiers of human consciousness. She is dedicated to the arts, wildlife, wilderness, and the children of the world, who are our future.
Zoe is a recognized pioneer in the interactive arena. In a previous incarnation she held senior management positions at several trendsetter high tech companies serving blue chip clientele. From within the high corporate world Zoe found she had a knack for persuading leaders of conventional company cultures to ‘give back’ in support of the arts and sustainability. She worked tirelessly to secure interactive marketing support for fine organizations such as Defenders of Wildlife, the Guggenheim Museum, National Geographic’s Green Guide, American Repertory Theatre, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, World Music and Very Special Arts.
Zoe Helene’s Specialties:
Exceptionally creative with proven ability to mentor, manage, and motivate diverse teams in high-pressure collaborative production environments. Expert knowledge of converging new media and ‘tribal’ marketing. Reputation for establishing solid strategic partnerships with industry leaders. Influential and persuasive change agent with wide-range success in achieving industry awards and spotlight brand equity media exposure.
Zoe Helene’s Experience
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Founder, Cosmic Sister™
Cosmic Sister, Inc.
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year)
Zoe is busy developing Cosmic Sister™, a higher self-selected and connected™ gathering of outstanding women and girls. She brings together change agents who practice and promote ways of life more conducive to a true all-parties-thrive scenario. The project is currently building pre-launch momentum. P.S. We welcome Guys Who Get It™, too.
“Yes we can be the change we want to see in the world and yes we will manifest a future worth inheriting.” – Cosmic Sister Zoe Helene
Zoe is married to Medicine Hunter Chris Kilham, who she adores. The couple travels extensively together exploring remote regions of the globe in shared, in-sync callings. The New York Times story, On a Remote Path to Cures (1/1/08) marked their media debut in what Zoe has fondly dubbed, The Merger. So far, expeditions have brought them to South Africa, the Peruvian Andes, and the Amazon. A feature documenting the Amazon expedition aired on NBC Nightly News (9/18/09). -
Owner
VisionRose, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2002 — 2008 (6 years)
Owned and operated VisionRose, a virtual multidisciplinary art and sustainability GREENhouse. Provided strategic integrated marketing and communications and interactive content development for the Natural Products Industry and LOHAS demographic. Selected clients include: Organic Center, Annie's (previously Homegrown Naturals) Healthy Handfuls, and Vermont Outdoors Women. Provided special outreach to conventional businesses seeking to embrace more sustainable practices. Art and sustainability sponsorships ranged from Steaz to Sotheby’s.
From 2002 to 2004 VisionRose honored an exclusive consulting contract with EchoMail, Inc., the industry’s premier electronic customer care relationship management and interactive marketing and communications software company. Selected EchoMail accounts during this period include; QVC, Vermont Student Assistance, Yankee Candle, FLW Outdoors, Green Guide, National Public Radio, NYC Guggenheim Museum, Spiegel Catalog, Atari Interactive. -
Chief Creative Officer
EchoMail, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
1999 — 2002 (3 years)
Prior to launching VisionRose, Zoe held the role of Chief Creative Officer for Cambridge, MA, based EchoMail, Inc., where she played a key role in developing the industry’s first and only holistic, scalable software solution for managing e-mail and electronic communications, executing integrated, interactive outbound marketing campaigns, and conducting targeted, dialogue-driven, real-time market research. As CCO, Ms. Helene acted as brainstorm leader/liaison between top advertising agencies (Wieden & Kennedy, R/GA, Arc Worldwide) and synergistic teams of technologists and creative professionals, proactively contributing to blue-chip clientele acquisition and retention, including; Allstate, American Express, National Public Radio, Procter & Gamble, QVC, Hershey’s, Nestlé Purina, and the Dial Store.
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Chief Creative Officer
General Interactive - The E-Mail Company™
(Online Media industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
Developed Websites for premier clients such as Lotus, IBM e-business, and BBN Technologies. Led newly acquired Art House through the production transition from interactive gaming to new media development, establishing reliable, efficient processes. Directed creative services team in the production of award-winning direct e-mail strategies and solutions for blue chip clients such as Unilever, Calvin Klein, and Nike. Responsible for developing and presenting industry's first new media direct e-mail marketing showcase, leading to some of the first direct e-mail campaigns for Gateway, JCPenney, and Sprint PCS. Designed first web-based, real-time lead capture and management system for IBM e-business. In 1999 General Interactive, along with Wieden & Kennedy, was awarded the One Show Interactive Award for Integrated Branding,for Calvin Klein's cK One. General Interactive was purchased by EchoMail in 1999.
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Artistic Director
Millennium Online Communities
(Online Media industry)
1994 — 1998 (4 years)
Received international acclaim for producing some of industry's first interactive online communities. MPI developed the industry's first on-line community for the arts and is credited with putting 5000 +artists and 500+ art organizations online for first time. MPI also produced the first online community for Harvard Square, one of the most culturally rich and progressively wired communities in the world. MPI also developed a comprehensive, self-managing online community for Very Special Arts, an organization that creates learning opportunities through the arts for people with disabilities, connecting arts-based programs in a vast network of 39 states and 70 international affiliates in 67 countries.
MPI clients included: Lotus, BBN Technologies, Renaissance Worldwide, United States Department of Education, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Cambridge Multi-Cultural Art Center, Dance Magazine, Musician Magazine, World Music, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Boston Ballet. -
Artistic Director
Millennium Productions - Art & Information Technology™
(Online Media industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years)
Joined the digital revolution with one of the industry's first full service interactive agencies. Responsible for leading new media teams in the development of e-business solutions for traditional businesses such as United States Department of Education, Lotus, and BBN Technologies, and nonprofit organizations such as Boston Ballet, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, and Dance Umbrella through the rather daunting journey of developing their first branded online presence and e-commerce strategy in the pre-dot com boom era. Played a key role in defining and refining workflow processes to help bridge the gap between artists, technologists and business pioneers who found themselves working together in unique ways to harness this revolutionary new communications medium.
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Director of Design/Member of Ensemble
Charlotte Shakespeare Company
(Performing Arts industry)
1984 — 1988 (4 years)
Founding member of CSC, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to bringing Shakespeare to those who might not otherwise have had access to quality productions. Leading roles include; Olivia in Twelfth Night, Miranda in The Tempest, and Hermia in Midsummer Night's Dream. Design credits include; sets and costumes for Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo & Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Waiting for Godot, MacBeth, and Comedy of Errors.
Awards include: First Place Award Costume Design--South Eastern Theatre Conference, First Place Set Design, South Eastern Theatre Conference, Best Theatrical Designer, University of North Carolina, Best Theatrical Designer (Audience Choice) Charlotte Observer, International Costume Design Award, United States Institute of Theater Technology, Arts and Humanities Award, United States Parks and Recreation
Zoe Helene’s Education
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Brandeis University
Master of Fine Arts, Professional Theatre, 1987 — 1990
The Brandeis Theatre program offered students the highest level of theatrical investigation and practice to prepare for professional life in theater with intention to create artists who will shape the future of American and world theater as centuries-old system for creating awareness of groups and their place in the wider universe of experience (paraphrased from Brandeis program descriptor).
- Activities and Societies:
- Mentored by the legendary Patricia Zipprodt, one of the most influential theatrical artists of the past century and partner of 20+ years to director-choreographer Bob Fosse.
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Acting and Design (Live Stage), 1987
Program provided an exemplary liberal arts education and inspiring intellectual inquiry while nurturing creativity. Students explored theoretical foundations and aesthetics through cross-disciplinary as well as discipline-specific courses while gaining skills, training and experience to develop as scholars and artists. Educational model is to discuss and explore in the classroom, then experiment in laboratory and rehearsal environments and, finally, to present our findings in the public forums of teaching and performance in an environment that respects cultural and artistic diversity.
- Activities and Societies:
- Freelance at UNNC in the Media Services Department. Selected credits from this period include: North Carolina Teacher's Association, North Carolina Educational Co-operative, North Carolina Scientific Research Center, UNC Charlotte 49ers.
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Zoe Helene’s Interests:
The Arts, Sustainability, Animals, Nature, Children, Global Sisterhood
Zoe Helene’s Groups:
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Greening of Medicine
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