work with me

Solve. Lead. Make.

Solve.
Lead.
Make.

For more than 20 years, I’ve helped organizations solve complex brand and business challenges, lead teams through growth and change, and turn strategy into work that moves people.

Today, I bring that experience to founders, CEOs, and leadership teams in three ways.


Three ways to bring clarity to what's next.

Three ways to bring clarity to what's next.

For more than 20 years, I’ve helped organizations solve complex brand and business challenges, lead teams through growth and change, and turn strategy into work that moves people.

Today, I bring that experience to founders, CEOs, and leadership teams in three ways.

Solve

Strategic Intensives

Find the clarity.

Lead

Fractional Leadership

Create the direction.

Make

Create Partnership

Bring it to life.

01 / Solve

Strategic intensives

STRATEGIC INTENSIVES

Sometimes you don't need more ideas.
You need clarity.

Sometimes you don't need more ideas. You need clarity.

When you’re inside a business every day, it can be difficult to see what actually matters.

A Strategic Intensive creates the space to step outside the day-to-day, challenge assumptions, simplify the problem, and make the decisions that move the business forward.

I work directly with founders and leadership teams to facilitate focused conversations around brand, positioning, differentiation, messaging, growth, and the bigger questions shaping what comes next.

This isn’t a presentation.

It’s working time.

We get the right people in the room, ask the right questions, and leave with a clearer direction than we started with.

BEST FOR

Brand positioning + differentiation
Messaging + value proposition
New products or ventures
Go-to-market strategy
Leadership alignment
Brand transformation
Complex business challenges

ENGAGEMENT

Half-day, full-day, or multi-day working sessions.

THE OUTCOME

Clarity around what matters, alignment around where you're going, and confidence in what happens next.

02 / Lead

fractional leadership

Senior leadership.
Without the full-time overhead.

There comes a point when an organization doesn’t need another agency, freelancer, or consultant.

It needs someone experienced at the table.

I step into organizations as a Fractional Chief Brand Officer, Brand & Creative Executive, or Strategic Advisor, working directly alongside founders, CEOs, and leadership teams.

I bring 20+ years of experience as a Chief Brand Officer, EVP, Executive Creative Director, agency founder, and advisor to help organizations create clarity, establish direction, elevate the work, and connect brand and marketing decisions to the bigger goals of the business.

BEST FOR

Brand + marketing leadership
Creative leadership
Positioning + messaging
Growth strategy
Team leadership + alignment
Agency + partner management
Launches + transformation
Executive brand decisions

ENGAGEMENT

Ongoing monthly partnership with dedicated executive-level involvement.

THE OUTCOME

Senior thinking when you need it. Clearer decisions. Stronger teams. Better work. And someone experienced helping connect all the pieces.

03 / Make

CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP

Senior creative horsepower. On demand.

Sometimes you already know where you’re going.

You just need someone who can make it happen.

Through Grimes Studio, I provide ongoing access to senior-level brand strategy, design, creative direction, and execution without the layers of a traditional agency or the overhead of building a larger internal team.

No junior handoffs.

No complicated scopes.

No starting over with a new freelancer every time something needs to get done.

Just experienced creative thinking and execution when you need it.

BEST FOR

Brand + visual identity
Campaigns
Web + landing pages
Presentations + pitch decks
Sales + marketing collateral
Content + social
Messaging + copy
Ongoing creative needs

ENGAGEMENT

Simple monthly subscription. Unlimited requests, worked through one at a time, with most projects delivered within two business days.

THE OUTCOME

More capacity. Better creative. Less overhead. And a senior creative partner who already understands your business.

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