about us
the experience
Tracy Gosson is the President of Sagesse, Inc., a firm she launched in
2007. Sagesse offers high impact marketing, business and economic development,
and organizational management consulting services to organizations from
large-scale government agencies to niche nonprofits.
Tracy
has over 20 years experience developing innovative marketing
strategies that directly address challenges and produce tangible
results. She is the founding Executive Director of the Live
Baltimore
Home Center and is a dynamic speaker that has been invited to share
her innovative and enthusiastic experience with many organizations.
Prior to Live Baltimore, she spent ten years working in television and
film, building an understanding of effective communications that
translated into expansive national and regional media coverage for
Live Baltimore and its many successes.
Under her nine years of leadership Live Baltimore was prominently established
as a national model of a comprehensive urban marketing initiative that
was largely responsible for the resurgence of Baltimore City neighborhoods
and population growth in the past decade.
Managing a $1 million operating budget she launched a high-profile media
campaign attracting Washington DC workers to move to Baltimore City;
developed corporate membership programs and customized product lines that
generated over 40% of annual income; launched the Home
Center, a one-stop-shop retail facility assisting potential new
residents in their city living search; created award-winning website
with dynamic consumer tracking component, attracting over 40,000 monthly
visitors; published City
Living Resource Guide, a bi-annual full color magazine; developed
award-winning Welcome to Baltimore City Living Relocation
Kit; and cultivated I
Love City Life into a ubiquitous brand with specialty merchandise
and city-wide Ambassador
members.
Tracy resides in the circa 1875 rowhome that she renovated in the historic
neighborhood of Butchers Hill in Baltimore, Maryland. She currently serves
as President of the Baltimore
City Department of Recreation and Parks Board of Directors, a member
of Mayor Dixon's Blue
Ribbon Committee on Tax Reform,
a former member
of Baltimore City’s Mayor O’Malley’s Cabinet. Tracy
was awarded the State of Maryland Department of Housing & Community
Development 2004 Home Ownership Advocate of the Year, the Daily Record
Innovator of the Year 2003, 40 Under 40 Emerging Leaders 2002 from the
Baltimore Business Journal and Top 25 Young Leaders to Watch
2002 from The Baltimore Times. She is also a graduate of the
Greater Baltimore Committee’s The LEADERship class of 2003.
the team
We have pulled together a team of highly skilled professionals that accept
nothing short of perfection in their work. Award-winning graphic designers
and publication specialists, event producers, database experts, web designers
and copywriters are just a few of our team members. No matter the project
or scale of the vision, we build a team of experts that generates cost-effective
results.
join the team
We are recruiting talented team members to work with us on a variety of
projects. If you have exceptional experience in your field and are looking
bring your creative energy to work everyday then we would like to talk
to you. Please send an email telling us a little about yourself and your
successes, along with your resume, to the contact below.
Contact Us
sagesse, inc.
2122 e. pratt street
baltimore, md. 21231
(443) 829-9674
info@sagesseinc.com
