Emily was the Founder, Executive Director, and

President of BRIDGES Healthy Cooking School.

BRIDGES was dedicated to reducing the obesity

epidemic among children and highlighting the

relationships between food, education, and health.

Acting as the center of the wheel between two hospital systems, Emily Brooks created cooking classes,

cooking demonstrations, lectures, and print media to strategically connect cooking, nutrition, and

medical care into a cross-spectrum troika to ensure award-winning prescriptive patient care.

Emily Brooks spent nearly seven years building BRIDGES into a monumental health services provider and

resource for the medical community, educational institutions, and governmental non-profit

organizations in Wisconsin. She expanded the concept of Workplace Wellness programming for

businesses into a Community Wellness Education approach. She created and taught over 3,800 highly

specialized cooking and nutrition courses, managed six participating industry coalitions with over 135 for

profit and nonprofit organization participants, and led BRIDGES to become one of the most

revolutionary nonprofits in the Midwest.

BRIDGES Healthy Cooking School ACHIEVEMENTS:

Created, marketed, and managed Buy local Connecticut and Shared Harvest CT - two distinct online purchase exchanges of goods and materials within BRIDGES to foster action pertaining to the nonprofit’s mission and vision.

Created and taught over 3,800 highly specialized cooking and nutrition courses.

Fostered cross-collaboration and support by managing six participating industry coalitions with over 135 for profit and nonprofit organization participants

Worked with nationwide health system to design, implement, and monitor their medically-customized bariatric diet plans for their patients undergoing any form of gastric banding or gastric bypass surgery.

Emily Brooks

http://www.linkedin.com/in/brooksemily

Key to Emily Brooks’ success is her ability to multitask in complex environments while keeping

an eye on collaboration, change and risk management, and system implementation to further

benefit an organization’s reputation and long-term market strategy. Her ability to identify

gaps and build new global competitive strategies, while soliciting and managing key

stakeholder support, drives long-term profitable growth for the global companies that she

works with.

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Professional

Experience