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...Read More

We’re excit­ed to announce that long­time Bell­mont Part­ners team mem­ber Megan Derkey has been pro­mot­ed to a new­ly cre­at­ed role at the agency: Senior Direc­tor, Tech­nol­o­gy & Man­u­fac­tur­ing. Megan will con­tin­ue to lead our Tech­nol­o­gy & Man­u­fac­tur­ing prac­tice group, strate­giz­ing and imple­ment­ing pub­lic rela­tions cam­paigns for inno­v­a­tive clients in the tech and man­u­fac­tur­ing spaces. Addi­tion­al­ly,...Read More

We’re thrilled to wel­come Gra­cie Lis­sick as Bell­mont Part­ners’ newest team mem­ber! This isn’t Gracie’s first expe­ri­ence at Bell­mont Part­ners – she com­plet­ed a sum­mer intern­ship with us as a col­lege stu­dent sev­er­al years ago – and we’re excit­ed to have her back at this stage in her career as she brings even more enthu­si­asm...Read More

Fif­teen years ago, when Brid­get Nel­son Mon­roe first walked through the door of our office in down­town Pri­or Lake, we were four peo­ple doing what we could with low name recog­ni­tion and boot­strap bud­gets as we worked out of a for­mer exer­cise stu­dio. Today, Bell­mont Part­ners has grown into a top Twin Cities PR and...Read More

Meet Maayan Wen­derow – the vice pres­i­dent of mar­ket­ing at Etiom­e­try, Bell­mont Part­ners client and start­up pio­neer­ing the pow­er of AI and advanced ana­lyt­ics to deliv­er mean­ing­ful clin­i­cal insights at a patient’s bed­side. Maayan start­ed her career in telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions but was drawn to medtech through technology’s pow­er­ful impact on patient care. Now she is sup­port­ing...Read More

Wel­come to a new year and a new round of MedTech Mas­ters, fea­tur­ing some of the many peo­ple we admire in the medtech com­mu­ni­ty. Start­ing off our 2026 series incred­i­bly strong is Sean Fenske, edi­tor-in-chief of Med­ical Prod­uct Out­sourc­ing and Ortho­pe­dic Design & Tech­nol­o­gy! Some of our team mem­bers have had the priv­i­lege of work­ing...Read More

Car­ing for the Earth and being mind­ful of the resources we use at Bell­mont Part­ners is impor­tant to us as a com­pa­ny. We val­ue envi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty and do what we can to put our words into action. It’s why Bell­mont Part­ners has a Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Com­mit­tee – a group of vol­un­teers at the agency who lead...Read More

Octo­ber was a big month for Minnesota’s man­u­fac­tur­ing com­mu­ni­ty, and our Bell­mont Part­ners team was proud to be a part of the action. From fac­to­ry tours to indus­try sum­mits, our Man­u­fac­tur­ing Prac­tice Group hit the road to con­nect, learn and cel­e­brate the peo­ple and inno­va­tions dri­ving this vital sec­tor forward. We kicked things off with our...Read More

What the heck is thought lead­er­ship? That’s the top­ic that Shel­li Lis­sick and I tack­led in our “The Trust Fac­tor: Build­ing Brand Author­i­ty in Health­care Through Thought Lead­er­ship” ses­sion at this year’s Min­neso­ta Health Strat­e­gy and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Net­work (MHSCN) Fall Con­fer­ence. Thought lead­er­ship – defined by Hub­Spot as “A tac­tic con­tent mar­keters use to build...Read More

The way we search for answers on the inter­net is chang­ing fast. AI-pow­ered search is no longer lim­it­ed to tools like Chat­G­PT — it’s now embed­ded in plat­forms like Face­book, Spo­ti­fy and Red­dit, where users increas­ing­ly rely on AI-gen­er­at­ed sum­maries to find cred­i­ble infor­ma­tion. This shift has major impli­ca­tions for how orga­ni­za­tions build and main­tain...Read More