Strategy, down to the bone.
Strategic counsel for leaders of mission-driven organizations, helping them clarify who they are, communicate complex ideas, and build a foundation for sustainable growth.
Multi-year marketing, brand, and communications plans built for real teams and real budgets. Strategy that names priorities, sequences the work, and leaves you with a plan your staff can actually run.
Confidential thought partnership for executives carrying the whole organization. A steady place to think out loud, work through hard calls, and get honest counsel before the stakes get public.
Positioning, brand architecture, and identity work for organizations at a turning point, whether that’s growth, restructuring, or telling a story that no longer fits who they’ve become.
Fifteen years.
Pith & Marrow is built on fifteen years of leading marketing, communications, and growth for mission-driven organizations, including as Executive Director of a national membership nonprofit.
That work includes:
The best strategy is the one your team actually uses.
Most strategy fails at the handoff. Plans get written for teams that do not exist, then sit in a drawer while the real staff goes back to doing what it always did.
Pith & Marrow builds for the team you actually have. Recommendations are sized to your capacity, sequenced by what matters most, and designed so a lean staff can execute without a consultant permanently attached.