ABOUT GRETCHEN
I've spent 25+ years learning to see the whole picture.
I've worked with founder-led companies for most of my career.
I started in branding, working with startups and founder-led companies to build brands from the ground up. Some were venture-backed startups trying to establish themselves in a market. Others were founders figuring out how to turn what they knew and did exceptionally well into a business people could understand and buy.
From there, my work expanded into marketing—digital strategy, advertising, social media, content, demand generation, and social selling. I learned how to create attention, build audiences, generate opportunities, and turn a brand into something that could actually drive business.
Then I moved closer to the revenue engine.
I began working across marketing and sales, building the systems and processes that connected the two. Eventually, I stepped into a leadership role where I was responsible for much more than marketing and had to think about growth as an organizational problem—not a departmental one.
That progression is the foundation of Unthink. I've seen the same business from a lot of different angles.
I've been the person thinking about the brand. I've built the marketing engine. I've worked on the sales side. I've built the technology and processes underneath them. And I've sat with leadership trying to figure out what the business needs to do next.
So when a founder says, "We need more leads," I'm interested in what led them to that conclusion.
Maybe they do.
But maybe the opportunity is somewhere else.
Maybe the market isn't right. Maybe the positioning isn't clear. Maybe sales can't convert the demand they're generating. Maybe the organization isn't ready to support the strategy. Maybe the pieces are there but haven't been connected in a way that produces the result they're after.
Twenty-five-plus years in this space has taught me to look beyond the thing that is easiest to name.
That's what I bring to Unthink: a broad view of the growth continuum, deep experience in the individual disciplines within it, and the ability to work with leadership to determine what the business actually needs next.
Let's find out if there's a fit.
We work with a small number of clients at a time — founder-led companies between $5M and $50M that are ready to examine how their revenue system actually works, not just add another piece to it.
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