Approach

'The road to discovery is the most exciting journey there is.'

As a lifelong learner, thinker & maker, I help brands discover, launch, grow, transform and innovate to achieve their objectives in a myriad of ways.

My career longevity coupled with my extremely diverse range of experience empowers me with a unique holistic perspective that few in the industry can claim. I am a brand shaman, meaning seeker, problem solver and innovation driven visionary focused on helping clients unearth their differentiator, diagnose sticking points, creatively think through their most relevant opportunities, strategically design break out solutions and cultivate inspired communities both inside and out. 

I attack, or lead multidiscipline teams to attack, projects from multiple angles, swiftly and efficiently, believing the first step is to make sure all the puzzle pieces are out of the box and facing up.

I believe it’s imperative to shape a big awesome vision and a rich cultural experience informed by all different kinds of data, inputs and benchmarking metrics.

I have supported corporate, retail, FMCG and non-profit clients, as well as startup entrepreneurs, do more with what they already have, gain clarity on what they’re missing or create something altogether new to capitalize on market white space. 

Discovery, Connection, Authenticity and Innovation drive everything I do with a primary goal toward helping clients catalyze long term sustainable success reflective of the constraints and untapped potential of both their internal and external culture building opportunities.

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Ways I support ORGANIZATIONS:
-- Research: deep-dive into data gleaning insights to support understanding for proposals, specific project aspects or other activities required by either strategic or creative team members. Conduct audits, surveys, interviews or develop informal focus groups.

-- Brainstorm: organize team brain-storming/design thinking sessions along with relevant & diverse stake-holders toward catalyzing insights & initial actionable steps for allocating resources.

-- Strategy Development: gathering up all existing in-house work to date, to develop a comprehensive foundational approach, or brand strategy, that narrows focus to guide subsequent developmental efforts more effectively and efficiently.

-- User Experience: deep-dive around Customer Journey across all touch points, digital & physical. 

-- Communications Planning:  pull together a holistic, top line communications or content strategy that augments work to date, including digital marketing framework, social media focus, etc.

-- Brand Graphics: identity & communications visual vocabulary.

-- Strategic Design: quick & comprehensive strategic-creative iterations across all relevant media channels for provoking team thinking and perspective formation.

-- Presentation Development: creating case models, in-house presentations or client pitches that communicate the scope of objectives.

 

Ways I support ENTREPRENEURS:
-- Research: for research, data insights & ‘business as brand’ guidance for developing your most salient value proposition in an integrated way to optimize resources and sustainability.

-- research and insights to bring more definition to your target customer, positioning differentiator, influencers in your space, alliance building opportunities, etc.

-- to develop quick study brand positioning/platform iterations to expedite clarity and narrow focus.

-- to test/iterate creative content solutions in fast-track way.

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-- Communications Planning:  pull together a holistic, top line communications or content strategy that augments work to date, including digital marketing framework, social media focus, etc..

-- Strategic Design: quick and comprehensive strategic-creative iterations across all relevant media channels for provoking team thinking and perspective formation.

-- Presentation Development: creating case models, in-house presentations or client pitches that communicate the scope of objectives.

 

 

 

More About Me

I come to the 'Marketing & Advertising' space in atypical fashion -not through business school or a communications degree- more from a storytelling and systems based design background informed by architecture and film making. I had an idyllic childhood growing up near the Mississippi Delta in a small town filled with farmers, bankers and other 'Busy Town' sorts where everybody knew your name and friendly conversation happened everywhere you went.

Within the past 4 years I've discovered I'm an INTJ personality type, characterized as 'mastermind' or 'walking think tank', the rarest type found in women [1 in 1,250].  Having viscerally experienced its impact for many years, I am now comforted by a better understanding of what's driving me 'in there', beyond my own cerebrally-informed Why. INTJ's are intellectually honest and approach life through a perspective-effectiveness orientation, valuing deep, careful, long range thinking around complex challenges, with an exceptional ability to perspective shift, detect patterns, intuitively perceive motivations and envision long range implications of actions. Simultaneously, we employ an effectiveness process satisfying our innate passion for achieving measurable benchmarks on-going  to meet specific goals. In short, we're distinguished as Long Range Elegant Solution-ists for tackling complex challenges.  All this to highlight my unique value in the context of a world requiring immediate results. I, like many others, can help achieve quick wins, and I also can help lead longer range ones, that foster greater, far reaching potential. 

And finally, I believe the scope of life experience as a consumer is noteworthy, having walked in a few 'segment' shoes myself: child, pre-teen, teen, 20 & 30 something, young professional, bride to be, pregnant woman, new parent, parent of teens, parent of Millennials, daughter, daughter of in-firmed parent, personal & beauty care shopper, financial manager, health care/insurance investigator, Boomer, homemaker, wine enthusiast, vacation planner, activist, gardening enthusiast, fashionista, fitness conscious, sailing lover, plus many more.

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The Facts + our Yearning for Fiction = Win Win Results

I believe we’re all influenced by the Facts and our Gut --and regardless of the next sweeping wave of disruption or tech advancement this goal post shaped decision-making construct will remain, knowing one side may be more heavily weighted depending on the proposition. As for the seemingly irrational behavior we sporadically witness –it’s still just a matter of digging deep enough to uncover the visceral motivation.

The Facts are ‘out there’ and measurable. The Instinct is ‘in here’ and most times requires greater lengths to understand. The most effective outcomes are expedited when these two align, as an energetic, catalyzing vibration -Right and Left Brain merged- through a visionary narrative that resolves business goals, practical operations and compels desired behavior by forging new connection or perceived innovation. And most times The Truth is a winner.

Most critical for developing any value proposition is 360 Research to unearth the relevant Facts plus Emotional triggers within a particular context.  360 Research includes exploring, as much as possible, the quantitative and qualitative data sets to reveal the most relevant Consumer, Cultural, Business Industry, Trends and Influencer inputs, to literally concoct an initial ‘bubbling petri-dish stewpot’ of potential.  From this organic assembly, prioritized and foundational insights can be gleaned and a direction launched.

It’s how you interpret this elemental alchemy early on, the collage of facts plus irrational triggers, that counts most in creating break out solutions that gain positive traction.