Emily Workman Harris
Emily Workman Harris

Professional Profile

Strategic Growth & Business Operations Consultant. Founder of EWH Consulting and of TOUCH·POINT. Based in Texas. Working with clients everywhere.

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Capabilities

Five areas of practice.

Each one tied to project work or to career experience.

  1. 01

    Strategy & Planning

    • Business audits and strategy
    • Operational roadmapping
    • Go-to-market planning
    • Competitive positioning
    Seen in: Lids & Tees five-area review and roadmap; StrikeOut category position
  2. 02

    Brand & Identity

    • Brand architecture and identity
    • Visual identity and messaging
    • Content strategy
    • Customer experience
    Seen in: StrikeOut brand system; Artificial Red Studio identity and voice rules
  3. 03

    Sales & Growth

    • B2B sales strategy
    • Sales enablement
    • Buyer persona development
    • CRM implementation
    Seen in: StrikeOut sales materials and pipeline system; Lids & Tees HubSpot setup, started
  4. 04

    People & Organizational Development

    • Talent acquisition strategy
    • Employer branding
    • Employee engagement and retention
    • Learning and development paths
    From career experience: Director of People, Talent Identification & Development at The Marketing Arm; building and growing recruiting teams
  5. 05

    Digital & Infrastructure

    • Website strategy, audit, and build
    • Digital infrastructure and analytics
    • NFC and link systems
    • Client-ready deliverables
    Seen in: strikeoutllc.com; the Artificial Red Studio site; TOUCH·POINT client pages; the Lids & Tees pricing calculator
Career history

Career history and education

Grouped by kind of work, so overlapping roles read clearly.

Founder roles

  • EWH Consulting, Founder

    Strategy and planning, brand and identity, sales and growth, people and organizational development, and digital infrastructure for owner-led businesses.

  • June 2026 to now

    TOUCH·POINT, Founder

    Custom digital experiences opened by NFC. Started as an EWH Consulting offer; now its own business.

Consulting and client work

  • 2025 to now

    StrikeOut LLC

    Brand & Growth Strategist via EWH Consulting for the rebrand; ongoing Sales & Marketing Consultant.

  • 2020 to 2023

    Independent consultant

    Recruiting, resume writing, and process improvement for small businesses and individuals.

  • 2020 to 2023

    Monat Global, independent sales and marketing

    Built a customer base through social content and personal follow-up; earned three corporate-sponsored incentive trips.

  • Guest Experience & Relationship Specialist, hospitality, Midland, Texas

    High-touch service for private-club and fine-dining guests, including long-term relationships with regional industry leaders, handled with discretion.

People and talent leadership

  • 2018 to 2020

    The Marketing Arm, Director of People, Talent Identification & Development

    Hiring and staffing for a 250-person practice. Managed three recruiters and a coordinator, owned agency-wide recruiting reporting to the Executive Board, and wrote the recruiting SLA.

  • 2016 to 2017

    The Marketing Arm, Senior Recruiting Manager

    Grew the recruiting team from two to six in nine months, owned the company-wide Greenhouse rollout, and was part of the team that hired 100 people in one quarter.

  • 2016

    AdTalent, National Recruitment Consultant

    Increased company profitability by 12%. Built out ad tech business units; helped select and configure the agency’s applicant tracking system.

  • 2013 to 2015

    Xtreme Consulting Group, Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant

    Contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placements, executive to entry level.

  • 2011 to 2013

    Etherios and The Creative Group, recruiting management

    Grew a Salesforce consultancy from 35 to 57 people in under a year as its sole recruiter; ranked #7 nationally in permanent placement (May 2012, YTD).

Marketing and media

  • 2006 to 2011

    ESW Partners, Festive Kitchen, Ambit Energy

    Media buying and account work in Chicago, catering sales and a CRM program in Dallas, then media planning, sponsorships, and brand standards at Ambit Energy.

Education

  • 2005

    Columbia College Chicago

    BA, Marketing Communications.

Gallup CliftonStrengths® · Top 5

Strengths, shown as behavior.

Individualization, Relator, Learner, Responsibility, Intellection.

01Individualization

Writes for the specific buyer, not the category.

StrikeOut’s Safety Leader, Operations Manager, and Spec-Writing Engineer each got a different path to yes.

About Individualization at Gallup
02Relator

Earns the real story before giving advice.

Lids & Tees began with hands-on event help. The diagnosis came only after the client agreed to hear it.

About Relator at Gallup
03Learner

Learns the territory fast enough to speak it.

Industrial lightning-prevention language for StrikeOut; a 13-state lighting system for Artificial Red Studio.

About Learner at Gallup
04Responsibility

Labels status honestly, and fixes what testing finds.

A misfiring Tag Manager trigger on StrikeOut was caught and fixed before bad data shaped decisions.

About Responsibility at Gallup
05Intellection

Finds the question under the request.

Artificial Red Studio asked for a website. The answer was a studio system with a site inside it.

About Intellection at Gallup

Gallup CliftonStrengths® Top 5, in order. Descriptions are paraphrased. CliftonStrengths® is a registered trademark of Gallup, Inc.

Working approach

How engagements run.

Through the Carry-Through Method: Diagnose, Define, Build, Equip. Scope decides which steps the work needs.

  1. Partner, not vendor

    Embedded in the business and invested in its outcomes.

  2. Thinking up front

    Real thinking is shared early, before any agreement is signed.

  3. Cross-domain range

    Brand, people, sales, digital, and operations in one engagement, so the connections between them are not missed.

  4. Usable deliverables

    Each engagement ends with something the business can use: a complete strategy, a built system, or a working tool.

About EWH Consulting   Explore selected work

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