Sharon Tallach Vogelpohl Power of the Purse Co-Chair Launching her agency career as an intern at then Mangan Holcomb Partners in 1994, Sharon became a principal in the firm in 2005 and was named president in 2010. Under her leadership, MHP forged a relationship with a fledgling digital company, Social Innovation. The sister companies now collaborate as MHP/Team SI with 160+professionals seamlessly providing the most comprehensive, powerful, and results-oriented Performance Marketing in the region, earning recognition as one of Adweek’s top fastest-growing agencies over 20 years old.
Known for her “Power Ideas”, she has nurtured many omnichannel campaigns from strategic development to award-winning recognition. Her twenty-seven year career spans the spectrum from copywriting to crisis communications to strategic digital lead-gen for clients in every imaginable category, including brands such as Verizon Wireless, J.B. Hunt, Walmart, Simmons Foods, Stephens Inc., Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Delta Dental, RiceTec, Inc. and Kinetic by Windstream.
A magna cum laude graduate and four-year NCAA Division I letter-winner at Centenary College of Louisiana with a degree in business communications, Sharon was recently named to the National Advertising Review Board, honored among the Top Women in Communication by PR Daily and the PR People of the Year by PR NEWS. She is a member of the Arkansas Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America and serves on the Emerald Forum of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. She has served as a guest speaker for the UALR College of Business, Centenary College Frost School of Business, University of Arkansas Walton School of Business and Rotary International Assembly and Conference.
Leading a two-time Arkansas Business of the Year and Best Place to work, Sharon is a two-time Arkansas Business Executive of the Year finalist, a member of the Arkansas Power List and Arkansas 200, graduate of Leadership Greater Little Rock (Class XVI), a 40 Under 40 honoree and the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas’ Woman of the Year in Business.
Passionate about community service, Sharon has served and donated pro bono agency services to countless boards and committees. She served as the President of the Rotary Club of Little Rock (Club 99) during its centennial celebration, earning the opportunity to chair the Rotary International Branding Committee alongside representatives from eight countries worldwide to launch the “People of Action” Campaign. She holds Rotary’s “Service Above Self” Award, the International Organization’s highest honor.
She currently serves as Vice President of Fifty for the Future and and founding member of the Arkansas Urology Foundation, as a member of the UALR College of Business Advisory Board and as second Vice President of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, putting her in position to serve as the organization’s first female president. She is the Governor’s appointee to the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Advisory Board and other initiatives to address the Opioid Crisis in Arkansas.
Sharon and her husband, Carl, have chaired record-breaking events and awareness for the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance’s Serving Up Solutions and UA-Pulaski Technical College’s Diamond Chef and Sharon is a past chair of the Central Arkansas Go Red for Women luncheon.
The Vogelpohls reside in the Pleasant Valley neighborhood of Little Rock where Sharon serves as “Chief Mothering Officer” to their two children, Carson (14) and Jonathan (11).