Brand Strategy and the Operating Model to Run It.

I help brands find their footing at inflection points — with strategy that's commercially grounded and built for execution.

How I think about brand

Brand does its most powerful work when it's extended beyond the marketing function — when it becomes the organizing logic for decisions across product, operations, leadership, and culture. That's the lens my work is built on.

How we work together

The moment that lens becomes urgent is almost always an inflection point — a rebrand, a business model shift, new leadership, or rapid growth pushing the current playbook past its limits.

Though the work can show up differently depending on where you are:

  • Sometimes you need to build your strategy - with commercial rigor baked in from the start.

  • Sometimes you need someone to pressure-test a direction before committing to it.

  • Sometimes the strategy is sound but the org isn’t moving — and you need someone to diagnose why and build what it takes to execute.

Engagements are typically project-based or fractional, and involve a mix of strategy development, workshops, executive and board alignment, team coaching, and hands-on support. I work directly with leadership throughout.

Companies I’ve worked with

  • Claire is a results-oriented consultant who quickly added value by coming up to speed on our business and taking the reins on business-critical menu projects. She is a broad thinker, but also gets hands-on with her partners to push work streams forward.”

    — Kimberly Bean, VP Brand Experience, Arby’s

  • “Claire is an active listener with a productive sense of urgency and a pragmatic orientation. Said simply, she knows where to find value and she goes after it in such a way that balances quick wins with longer term investment.”

    — Liza Lefkowski, VP and GM, Global Merchandising & Brand, Wayfair

  • “Claire is an inspirational leader with innate creative instincts; that when coupled with her deep experience bank on all things brand strategy, consumer insights, and brand marketing, it makes Claire a unicorn that is able to zoom out and think brand strategy, and zoom in with a tactical doer-approach and action-orientated mindset”

    — Alex Frias, CMO, Steve Madden

  • “Claire is a builder - she knows how to build a business from scratch and can quickly recruit the right people and spark group cohesion”

    — Rachel Yarbrough, HR Business Strategy Leader, Amazon WW Stores

  • “Claire stepped in to develop the vision and strategy for a new digital experience. She set us up with an approach that not only inspired but also provided a structured path for experimentation and iteration for the program.”

    — Nik Dhodi, VP, Global Channel Development, Starbucks