ABOUT
(Free Community Archiving event in Mobile, AL, 2025, produced and promoted by Vanguard House)
Vanguard House
Vanguard House is a business management consultancy and strategic advisory helping organizations understand where they are, determine where they need to go, and build the strategy to get there.
We work across business and organizational strategy, transformation, innovation, insights, go-to-market, and executive leadership. Our creative practice provides complementary brand, design, and creative services when an engagement calls for them. We work with businesses, nonprofits, and organizations facing complex problems, meaningful opportunities, periods of growth or change, or the need for additional leadership capacity.
Launched from the U.S. South in 2023 and partnering globally, VH is queer-, Black-, and woman-owned and led by CEO Parliament Neal.
Good to Know, VH's insights platform, explores news, information, ideas, and perspectives that help us better understand the world around us and the forces shaping business, culture, and society.
Founder: Parliament Neal
Vanguard House founder and CEO Parliament Neal is an entrepreneur, strategist, and operator with 15+ years of experience leading businesses, organizations, and brands across sectors, markets, and five continents. Her work spans business strategy, revenue development, operations, innovation, commercialization, marketing, partnerships, and organizational leadership.
Parliament has held P&L responsibility for an $80M+ global CPG business, driven more than $80M in annual revenue and $20M in annual donations, managed a $30M+ marketing budget, and led teams of 200+ across 25+ markets. Working across B2B, B2C, and nonprofit sectors, she has brought more than 100 products and initiatives to market across CPG, financial services, community services, and digital media—including products generating $10M+ annually.
Her experience includes developing new categories, building revenue and go-to-market strategies, commercializing new products, expanding distribution and markets, managing portfolios and investment, and building the cross-functional systems that connect strategy to execution. At Brooklyn Brewery, she built marketing into a commercial function, developed the company's innovation infrastructure, and led product and portfolio initiatives spanning insights, development, commercialization, sales, operations, finance, and market expansion.
As VP of Marketing & Communications for Accion Opportunity Fund, a national Community Development Financial Institution with more than $1B in impact lending, Parliament was brought in for her experience connecting leaders and optimizing across functions. She built a cross-functional operating group to identify revenue opportunities, eliminate waste and inefficiency, solve operational pain points, and connect customer and market insights to organizational decisions around resources, budgets, customer experience, and growth.
Parliament has architected and stewarded high-impact partnerships with major commercial and mission-driven brands, including New York Comic Con, LegalZoom, Billion Oyster Project, Miller Lite, and The Stonewall Inn. While at Brooklyn Brewery, she was also led the business historic "donations program," working with over 1000 organizations every year to provide in-kind and financial support, from fledgling nonprofit projects to multi-year sponsorships of global cultural institutions and events like Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival. She has developed and mentored teams ranging from 0 to 200+, led strategic operations across Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, and helmed sold-out cultural events entertaining 1000+. Between 2016 and 2020, she was an elected board member of the NYC Brewers Guild, supporting, advocating for, and representing 50 city-based breweries.
At Vanguard House, Parliament brings together her experience in strategy, business management, innovation, revenue development, operations, and creative to help businesses, nonprofits, and organizations solve complex problems, pursue meaningful opportunities, and turn ambitious ideas into practical action.
She marries the possible with the feasible. Connect with Parliament and learn more about her background on LinkedIn.
If we met before 2024, you knew her by her original name: Kaitlin "Kaitie" Lynch.
(Parliament with Sheila Flanagan, Director of the Historic Avenue Culture Center at Community Archiving Day. The center, which functions as a library, hosted and partnered on the event. City officials and cultural leaders also attended, in addition to local families.)
(Brooklyn Defender IPA, on shelves at the Javits Center, NYC, for New York Comic Con. In addition to leading the global project, Parliament oversaw annual merchandising and activation on-site at Javits and via Brooklyn Brewery's field team across the US and international markets.)
The Team
On a project-basis, VH taps an experienced network backed by 50+ years of collective expertise, offering a range of wraparound and supportive services to meet our clients’ needs.