The LavaCon Content Strategy Conference | 5–8 October 2025 | Atlanta, GA
Lee Bryars

Lee Bryars has over 20 years of experience working with content as a back-end designer, engineer, and advocate for content management and metadata best practices in various sectors including electronic publishing, libraries, federal government, and finance. She recently joined Fidelity as a back-end UX content strategist for associate-facing content in the Workplace Investing space.

Why Content Strategy Is Important and How You Can Make a Case for It

Co-presented with: Mary Southworth

This session is for leaders interested in learning why a focus on content strategy is so important for their businesses and for content specialists looking for ways to make a business case for improving their content strategy.

We’ll focus on use cases from Fidelity’s associate-facing content and its profound impact on the customer experience. This session will include a set of basic definitions of terms that can have many and changeable meanings, like content strategy, content engineering, and content design.

 

In this session attendees will learn how:

  • Focusing on content strategy to improve SEO, findability, and AI can improve customer experience and retention
  • To get leadership buy-in on content strategy by having the right elevator pitch, metrics, and use-cases to back it up