Most organizations I work with don’t have a shortage of digital activity. They have a shortage of strategic ownership. Channels are running, tools are in place, teams are executing — but the strategy that should be connecting all of it is either underdeveloped, underdirected, or sitting with a leader who is stretched too thin to give it the attention it needs.
That’s the gap I fill.
I work with leadership teams as a fractional digital consultant — embedded in the business, accountable for outcomes, and focused on the work that actually moves the needle. Not a report delivered and filed away. Not a vendor optimizing their own deliverables. A senior partner who owns the strategy, connects it to execution, and stays in the conversation long enough for it to matter.
Over 20+ years working across agency and in-house environments — in healthcare, legal, financial services, SaaS, engineering, and professional services — I’ve seen the same patterns repeat. The organizations that grow consistently are the ones that have figured out how to connect strategy, technology, and data into a system that works. That’s the work I do.
Who this is for
The organizations I work best with tend to share a few characteristics. They’re serious about digital growth but haven’t had the senior oversight to make it a competitive advantage. They have capable people but need someone to set the direction and hold the system together. And they’re looking for a genuine partner — not someone to execute a task list, but someone to own the outcome.
Specifically, this engagement is a strong fit if:
- You’re a growing company without a dedicated digital leader — and you’re starting to feel the cost of that gap in your results, your team’s direction, or your channel performance.
- You’re between CMOs or senior digital leaders and need experienced oversight to maintain momentum and help build the permanent team.
- You’re a founder or operator who has been carrying the marketing function personally and is ready to hand it to someone you can trust.
- You’re navigating a significant transition — a new market, a platform migration, a post-acquisition integration — and digital strategy needs to be rebuilt or realigned.
- You have strong execution capability but no one connecting strategy, technology, and measurement into a coherent system that serves the business.
If you operate in a regulated industry — healthcare, legal, or financial services — I have specific experience with the compliance environment, trust-based purchase dynamics, and content requirements that generic digital leadership advice tends to overlook.
How I work
Every engagement starts with a direct conversation about what you’re trying to accomplish and what’s currently getting in the way. From there, I build a scope that fits the actual problem — not a generic package applied to your situation.
In practice, that means I function as a working member of your leadership team for the digital function. I’m in the strategic conversations, I’m reviewing and directing the work, I’m holding vendors and internal teams accountable, and I’m building the measurement framework that connects digital activity to business outcomes. The engagement adapts to what the business needs — a new channel launch, a board presentation, a technology evaluation, a hiring decision — rather than following a fixed deliverable schedule.
I take a limited number of active engagements at any time. That’s a deliberate choice: every client relationship gets real depth of attention, not a fractional presence spread too thin to be useful.
What I Can Help With

Fractional CMO & Digital Leader
Ongoing, embedded digital leadership. I own the strategy, guide execution, develop your team, and stay accountable to business outcomes — functioning as a senior member of your leadership team on a part-time basis.
- Cross-functional alignment across marketing, sales, product, and operations
- Digital strategy ownership and quarterly planning
- Team leadership, mentoring, and hiring support
- Vendor and agency oversight and accountability
- Performance reporting tied to business outcomes

Digital Strategy & Growth
Audits, roadmaps, and transformation advisory. Project-based work that gives your leadership team a clear, prioritized strategy — built for your specific business, not a generic framework.
- Digital growth audits — full-funnel performance assessment
- 12-month strategy roadmaps with 90-day implementation milestones
- Go-to-market strategy for new channels, markets, or audiences
- Digital transformation advisory through major transitions
- Competitive landscape and gap analysis

SEO, AEO & Discoverability
Two decades of search experience — technical SEO, content strategy, AI search positioning, and the organic side of an integrated search program. The deepest technical expertise I bring, applied at the strategic level.
- Technical SEO audits and prioritized remediation roadmaps
- Content strategy for organic authority and topical depth
- AI search and generative search positioning strategy
- SEO for regulated industries — healthcare, legal, financial services

Paid Media Planning & Strategy
Senior-level paid media strategy for organizations investing in paid channels and want to know it’s working as hard as it should. Not account management — the strategic layer above it that most paid programs are missing.
- Paid media audits across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and more
- Channel strategy and budget allocation planning
- Integrated paid and organic search strategy
- Fractional paid media leadership and agency oversight
- Paid media for regulated industries — compliance-aware strategy

