Freelance marketing strategist

I work with agencies and organizations to help them run better campaigns and grow their brands

The dirty fingernails approach to strategy

The best strategy work is like a garden:

Everyone pitches in, works together and gets their hands dirty.

I believe that strategy only starts with a PDF or PowerPoint. The real work comes from working as a team and engaging in the give-and-take that’s essential to all creative work.

That means tweaking ideas, processes and directions when working with a creative team or client requires it.

Because real strategy isn’t just your documents, process or expertise.

It’s the relationships you build along the way.

What I offer:

I work both agency- and client-side to design marketing strategy, run campaigns and grow brands.

 

My services include:

  • Designing, executing and launching marketing campaigns and programs

  • Helping brands grow to engage new and existing audiences

My credentials

Worked both agency- and client-side

I have several years of experience working as a strategist in an agency environment (with Banfield Agency in Ottawa) and have also worked with agencies as a client

More than 15 years of experience

I have worked in increasingly senior roles in marketing and communications after working as a journalist for the first part of my career

Thrived in a variety of environments

I have experience running B2B and B2C campaigns across the private, government, institutional and not-for-profit/charity sectors

Brands I’ve worked for (and with)

CIRA/Get Cyber Safe/Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation/Conference Board of Canada/Exclaim!/Apt613/Klipfolio/Carleton University

Let’s get started

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