Bellmont Partners Promotes Hope Hansen to Account Executive

After join­ing Bell­mont Part­ners as an intern while at the Uni­ver­si­ty of St. Thomas in May of 2023, and as a full-time employ­ee in July of 2024, we’re excit­ed to announce that Hope Hansen has been pro­mot­ed to Account Exec­u­tive. Hope exem­pli­fies Bell­mont Part­ners’ core val­ues – Col­lab­o­ra­tive, Flex­i­ble, Invest­ed, Trans­par­ent and Con­nect­ed – and has grown so much since join­ing the agency, tak­ing on large roles with clients rang­ing from a For­tune 500 com­pa­ny to Min­neapo­lis Christkindl Mar­ket, Taste of the NFL, MnFIRE and the Min­neso­ta Zoo. In her role as Account Exec­u­tive, she will split her time pri­mar­i­ly between the Tourism, Events and Min­neso­ta and Hor­ti­cul­ture & Agri­cul­ture prac­tice groups. She will also con­tin­ue to be a resource to team mem­bers on media mon­i­tor­ing best prac­tices. 

We recent­ly sat down with Hope to chat about what she’s look­ing for­ward to in her new role, agency life and advice she has for those start­ing their career in PR. 

Q: First of all, con­grats on your pro­mo­tion! You have grown so much since you first start­ed full time at Bell­mont Part­ners in 2024 (and as an intern before that!) What are some things that have sur­prised you about agency life over the last cou­ple of years? 

A: Thank you so much! When I was in col­lege, I often heard the advice “start your career at an agency,” and I’m glad I did. I’ve been con­sis­tent­ly sur­prised (impressed might by the bet­ter word!) by the fast-mov­ing pace of agency life. Every day brings new oppor­tu­ni­ties to learn while jug­gling mul­ti­ple pri­or­i­ties to deliv­er effi­cient, high-qual­i­ty work to our clients. The key to this is col­lab­o­ra­tion – one of five core val­ues at Bell­mont Part­ners – lean­ing on each oth­er to share ideas, work through chal­lenges and cel­e­brate accom­plish­ments togeth­er. 

Q: What areas are you excit­ed to grow in as an Account Exec­u­tive?  

A: I’m eager to grow in areas of social media and data/analytics. Since I was young, I’ve enjoyed man­ag­ing social media pres­ences – draft­ing copy, pulling images, design­ing graph­ics, com­mu­ni­ty man­age­ment… the whole thing! I’ve leaned into this organ­ic social media work at Bell­mont Part­ners, and in the Account Exec­u­tive role, I’m excit­ed to take fur­ther steps beyond organ­ic and into paid social media. I con­tribute to Bell­mont Part­ners as a leader of our Mon­i­tor­ing Core Users group, serv­ing as a resource to team mem­bers on media mon­i­tor­ing and report­ing best prac­tices. We are con­stant­ly refin­ing our process­es with the goal of serv­ing our clients with exact­ly the num­bers they need, when they need them. Even though I’ve brand­ed myself as a “words per­son,” the num­bers are nec­es­sary, and I appre­ci­ate the blend! I look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing to sup­port the agency’s data/analytics efforts. 

Last­ly, I’m thrilled to grow in client ser­vice! As an Account Exec­u­tive, I’ll have more oppor­tu­ni­ties to work direct­ly with clients, strength­en those rela­tion­ships and help guide strat­e­gy. We have some of the BEST clients and equal­ly phe­nom­e­nal client con­tacts – it’ll be a plea­sure to work even more close­ly with them. 

Q: In your new role, you will pri­mar­i­ly sup­port two of our prac­tice groups: Tourism, Events & Min­neso­ta, and Hor­ti­cul­ture & Agri­cul­ture. How do these two groups over­lap, and how are they dif­fer­ent?  

A: It’s a treat to work in these two prac­tice groups! Both are gen­uine­ly FUN, and many of our clients sit on the inter­sec­tion of the two groups. One of my favorite exam­ples is Mid­west Dairy – home to the Princess Kay of the Milky Way pro­gram and the famous but­ter sculp­tures, the Dairy Good­ness Bar (fea­tur­ing a new Fla­vor of the Fair each year) and the All-You-Can-Drink Milk Stand at the Min­neso­ta State Fair.  

This client has leg­endary expe­ri­ences at “The Great Min­neso­ta Get-Togeth­er” (con­nec­tion to Tourism, Events & Min­neso­ta prac­tice group), which Bell­mont Part­ners has been a part of for the past two decades, and their ulti­mate pur­pose is rep­re­sent­ing more than 3,600 dairy farm fam­i­lies (con­nec­tion to Hor­ti­cul­ture & Agri­cul­ture prac­tice group).  

The two prac­tice groups dif­fer based on their defined nich­es, but it’s awe­some to see how they con­nect, espe­cial­ly as a Min­neso­ta girl who loves all the icon­ic des­ti­na­tions and tra­di­tions our state has to offer. 

Q: What advice do you have for any­one just start­ing their career in PR? 

Here are three of my best tips:

• Be some­one peo­ple like being around, and you will be in the room. 
• You have a valu­able voice and unique seat at the table. Don’t shy away from shar­ing your ideas. 
• Bring your whole self to work – not just your “work self.” Your inter­ests, hob­bies and pas­sions help you stand out and build mean­ing­ful con­nec­tions in every stage of your career. 

 

Thanks, Hope, and con­grats again on your pro­mo­tion to Account Executive!