MARKETING CONSULTING

for Impact-Driven Organizations

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Marketing Built for Your Mission

Since 2016 and the disruptions of 2020, mission driven organizations and emerging leaders have operated in an increasingly unstable environment. Research shows that many purpose-led businesses now face funding volatility and reduced capacity.

At the same time, the demand for visibility has never been higher. Digital presence and consistent storytelling are now essential for building trust and attracting support. However, many organizations lack the dedicated capacity to keep up. Approaches that worked in the past no longer reach audiences in today’s crowded digital landscape.

As a result, marketing often feels reactive or overwhelming. Important work risks being overlooked not because it lacks value, but because the infrastructure is not built to support it. I work with leaders to step back and build practical strategies and systems that fit their stage and priorities.

My Approach & Background

I am a writer and certified marketing strategist with over six years of experience developing digital campaigns, creating omnichannel content strategies, and amplifying community centered missions. My work supports innovative leaders and organizations as they define their message, connect with their audiences, and create a lasting positive impact.

My perspective is rooted in an internal understanding of how organizations actually function. Alongside my consulting practice, I am the founder and publisher of an independent press. Building that organization from the ground up required managing the full picture including strategy, operations, and long term goals.

As a leader, I understand how marketing choices ripple across an organization at different stages of growth. This lived experience informs my consulting, specifically in how to weigh the need for visibility against internal capacity and how to align messaging with core values.

When I work with leaders, I look at how marketing fits into the broader system of their work. I pay attention to what an organization is trying to protect and where it is trying to grow. My goal is to help you make decisions that are both strategic and sustainable. Having built an organization from scratch, I am deeply aware of how powerful it is when all parts of a system move together.

Services & Pricing

I offer flexible pricing options to make my work accessible to leaders and organizations at different stages and with varying resources.

Getting Started

Designed to create immediate clarity and ensure your resources are channeled into the strategies that move the needle most.

Focused Initiative

This stage translates high level direction into a concrete and actionable plan for one defined goal.

Deeper Systems & Support

Focus on building repeatable marketing systems and providing ongoing decision support.

  • Best for: Leaders who want to talk through one specific marketing challenge and use the session as a sounding board to determine whether marketing consulting is the right fit and what to prioritize next.

    What you get: A 45 minute call to clarify your goals and receive guidance on the most useful next steps.

    Investment: $69

  • Best for: Emerging leaders and founders seeking support defining clear marketing goals tied to specific business needs.

    What you get: This includes one 60-minute working session and a concise written marketing brief for one initiative. The brief outlines clear goals, messaging direction, recommended strategies and tactics, priority channels, and tailored resources with next-step guidance. All recommendations are designed so you can implement them independently or build on them together at the next level.

    Investment:

    • $225 for emerging leaders and early-stage organizations

    • $350 for established organizations

    Pricing reflects organizational stage and the level of strategic synthesis involved.

  • Best for: Organizations preparing to launch a new initiative or refine a key campaign.

    What you get: This includes two 90 minute working sessions and a tailored strategic marketing plan for your initiative.

    Implementation: You also receive a training session (up to 60 minutes) focused on applying the plan and setting up necessary workflows or tools.

    Investment: 

    • $420 for emerging leaders and early-stage organizations launching their first initiative 

    • $570 for established leaders and organizations with active marketing efforts

    Plan development, synthesis, and preparation time are included and completed outside of live working sessions.

  • Best for: Organizations and leaders who have specific business goals they need marketing to support, such as launching a program or offering, strengthening visibility, stabilizing growth, or creating consistent communication systems to support ongoing work.

    What you get: A multi-session strategic engagement delivered over 90 days, focused on clarifying marketing direction and building the systems and infrastructure needed to support defined business goals over time. Deliverables typically include:

    • A comprehensive marketing plan aligned with your business goals

    • Clearly defined marketing priorities, messaging direction, and channel strategy

    • Marketing infrastructure and internal tools, such as workflows, planning systems, and content processes

    • Light, targeted implementation support to help activate the strategy

    • A simple measurement framework to track progress and guide refinement.

    • This work centers on strategic marketing goals identified at the start of the engagement. Rather than one-off tactics, the focus is on creating repeatable systems that align with organizational priorities and real capacity.

    Investment:

    • $1,400 for emerging leaders and early-stage organizations

    • $2,200 for established organizations

  • Best for: Leaders who want steady strategic marketing support without hiring full time staff.

    What you get: Flexible and month to month advisory support including ongoing strategy review and guidance on tradeoffs.

    Collaboration: I can also provide coordination support to help you work effectively with designers or developers.

    Investment: $69 to $95 per hour based on organization stage

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Most agencies focus on external deliverables like social media posts or paid ads. I work from the inside out by focusing on the underlying marketing infrastructure and leadership decisions. This ensures your systems are sustainable and aligned with your real constraints rather than being reactive or overwhelming.

  • A short conversation is a great first step to talk through a specific question or clarify if consulting is the right fit. For those who need a clear roadmap without a major investment, I offer a foundational Quick Consult session that provides a concise written brief and messaging direction to help you focus your limited resources.

  • I am committed to making high-level marketing strategy accessible to o leaders and organizations at different stages and with varying resources. My tiered pricing reflects two things: organizational capacity and strategic complexity.

    • For Emerging Leaders: Pricing is scaled to support those in the early stages of building their platform, ensuring you can access professional systems as you grow.

    • For Established Organizations: Pricing reflects the deeper synthesis required to coordinate larger teams, manage existing complex digital ecosystems, and align multifaceted goals.

    This model allows me to provide the same high standard of care to a solo founder as I do to a mid-sized nonprofit, ensuring that mission-driven work at every level has a path to visibility.

  • Yes. I support the launch of specific initiatives such as programs, services, campaigns, or offerings. We work together to translate your goal into a clear, actionable marketing plan, with optional implementation or training support to help you or your team carry it forward.

    Please note that this practice does not support author branding or marketing for fiction titles.

    In some cases, I may support marketing for nonfiction books when they are closely connected to an organization, program, or thought leadership work.

  • I work as a strategist and system builder rather than a full-service production agency. While I provide guidance on content development and implementation, I do not offer full copywriting or technical builds. I frequently collaborate with existing vendors or help identify and coordinate with the right creative partners as needed.

  • Shared clarity is an important foundation for this work, so I begin deeper engagements and ongoing support with an initial alignment phase. This helps ensure that any marketing strategies and systems we build are grounded in a clear understanding of your goals and priorities.

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