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  • About
  • Services
    • Strategy
    • Writing and editing
    • Executive visibility
    • Assessments
  • Focus areas
  • Portfolio
  • Contact

Marketing & communications strategy services

Whether you’re growing a small business or leading marketing in a big corporation, I can help you decide how to position your brand, where to show up, and how to tailor your message for different platforms and audiences.

Brand positioning and strategy

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Establish your brand's identity.

Through my structured workshop, we’ll work together to uncover your organization’s values, differentiators and value proposition. You’ll walk away with clear messaging and a distinct voice to apply across your website, marketing materials and other content. 


Engagements include:


  • Customer and competitive analysis
  • Narratives and messaging
  • Voice guidelines
  • Collaborating with designers to guide visual branding

Marketing strategy and planning

Create a plan to reach your customers.

Growing your business requires meeting your customers where they are with a message they can’t ignore. I partner with you to translate your business goals into marketing objectives and develop a plan to achieve them. 


Customized services include:


  • Persona development
  • Buyer journey map
  • Industry strategy
  • Annual marketing plans

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Thought leadership strategy

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Build a reputation as the go-to expert in your field.

A thought leadership program builds credibility by showing prospects you understand their challenges and how to solve them. Whether you want a program centered around your organization's capabilities or an individual's expertise, we’ll work together to sharpen your point of view and develop a plan to produce consistent thought leadership content. 


Engagements include:


  • Subject matter expert (SME) interviews
  • Theme and topic identification
  • Visibility strategy (social media, speaking engagements, PR, partnerships)
  • Content briefs

Content strategy

Get your content seen by the people who matter.

A successful content strategy ensures you provide the right information to meet your customers at every stage of their buying journey. I assess your current content to identify what’s working, what can be improved and what’s missing — then map out a plan to reach your goals.


Depending how far along you are in your content strategy, our partnership may include:


  • Qualitative content audits
  • Buyer personas and journey maps
  • Content mapping
  • Topic brainstorm
  • Content calendar and briefs
  • Distribution plan
  • Collaboration with SEO/GEO/AEO experts and other teams and vendors

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Communications strategy

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Tailor your story for employees, customers, media, investors and other stakeholders.

When you’re navigating an organizational change, launching an initiative or establishing your reputation, you need a plan to make sure the people affected understand your story. I help you shape messaging, identify what content you need to develop and figure out where you need to show up to reach your audience.


Capabilities include:


  • Messaging 
  • Campaign planning
  • Partnering with media relations experts to pitch your story

Experience

Sustainability communications strategy

Sustainability communications strategy

Sustainability communications strategy

As an account director at Akrete, I led the development of an integrated campaign to promote BentallGreenOak’s progress on its sustainable investment strategy, in partnership with agency colleagues and the client’s communications director and social media team. Using the firm’s annual sustainability report as an anchor, we designed a plan to reach key stakeholders through media relations, social media and sponsored content. 

Industry marketing strategy

Sustainability communications strategy

Sustainability communications strategy

At Deloitte, I developed marketing strategies to raise brand awareness among target clients and influencers in the power and utilities sector. Working closely with the firm’s national sector leader and business line leaders, I developed annual plans that supported their business priorities through events, association sponsorships, thought leadership, social media and other tactics. 

Thought leadership strategy

Sustainability communications strategy

Thought leadership strategy

On behalf of Akrete, I led a multi-year thought leadership program to build Alliant Credit Union’s reputation as a leading commercial real estate lender. Through ongoing efforts and targeted campaigns, we showcased the firm’s market expertise through contributed articles, sponsored content and strategic media relations — ultimately strengthening its reputation and supporting deal flow.

Ready to learn more?

Contact me to set up an intro call or get a quote.

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