Casondra R. Cooper
Professional Profile
Impactful and results-based leadership and exceptional outcomes
Casondra R. Cooper is an experienced and highly respected business visionary. She is a successful entrepreneur with broad experience in management, operations and advancement. Casondra has followed her passion as a strategic problem solver throughout her corporate career. Her diverse experiences include Freeset USA, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, St. Aloysius Orphanage, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Xavier University and American City Business Journals.
She has over 25 years of experience in leveraging business relationships and community partnerships for the betterment of the Greater Cincinnati community. In addition to creating strategic plans and new business development opportunities, she has planned and executed numerous fundraising activities.
Her expansive career has enabled her to become a trusted advisor to some of the City’s most exclusive leadership. She has collaborated with employees and the broader community in expanding her considerable influence in community engagement, volunteer recruitment, media and public relations, program marketing and donor and board communications. She is adept at raising community awareness of important issues and their relevancy to the publics she serves.
Casondra Cooper is graduate of Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; the Gallup Institute-High Impact Management and the WE Lead Institute-Professional Development Certification and WE LEAD graduate, Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, Cincinnati, Ohio. She is adept at organizational design and conducting organizational audits. Her external relations experience includes board governance and development training.
Among her many honors and awards, Casondra has received Cincinnati State’s Presidents Award, the Girl Scouts of America Trailblazer Award, the VAI Thought Leader in Cause Marketing, the Pepsi Foundation Award for History Education and was named a Leading Woman in National Sales & Marketing.