If you’re publishing non-stop but nothing sticks, it’s probably a story problem.
Fractional content marketing for growth-focused teams.
Strategy, brand messaging, thought leadership, reporting — all handled.
Most teams fall into one of two camps — and often, a bit of both:
Producing non-stop, but everything feels reactive — new formats, new platforms, new priorities… no clear sense of what’s what’s working.
Or you’ve invested in strategy decks, but it could still belong to any one of your competitors, because the story was pieced together from market research, not conviction. It’s not a part of your company’s DNA, because commitment means choosing, excluding, and being wrong in public. So the story stays safe. And forgettable.
Either way, the result is the same: lots of activity, little momentum.
What’s actually going wrong
You already know more content isn’t the answer.
You’re doing exactly what modern marketing rewards in the short term:
Shipping more
Following best practices
Relying on proven templates
That work gets things out the door, but rarely moves deals forward.
Not because the team doesn’t care. Not because they lack talent.
But because the moment content gets specific — someone gets nervous.
→ That’s not how we talk about ourselves.
→ Legal won’t approve that.
→ Product owns that page.
→ What if the board sees it?
So the story gets sanded down. What’s left is safe, polished content that explains a lot and differentiates very little.
Sure, maybe it’s technically “right,” but that safety tax shows up as longer sales cycles, heavier reliance on custom decks, and teams disagreeing about what you actually stand for.
Borrowed ideas don’t fail because they’re bad. They fail because everyone else is using them too.
You need a point of view you actually own.
Borrowed vs Owned Content
Borrowed content looks like:
Familiar language that’s everywhere (“innovative” 👀)
Polished messaging that could belong to anyone
One-off assets built to check a box
A story that changes depending on who’s telling it
Owned content feels like:
People immediately “get” what you stand for
Customers hear their problems in your copy
Content systems that reinforce each other
A story works everywhere — from social to pitch decks
Content leadership for teams tired of publishing into the void.
This isn’t checkbox marketing. It’s leadership-level work on your brand narrative so your messaging holds up across content, sales, and growth. The result: fewer explanations in meetings, fewer last-minute rewrites, shorter sales cycles, and less reliance on ad hoc one-pagers.
With 15+ years across marketing, communications, and PR roles, I step in as a Head of Content… without the headcount.
Together, we move past borrowed frameworks and tactical churn to build a strategic content program and owned POV buyers recognize and trust.
Service Bundles
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Fractional Head of Content
Strategic content leadership that defines priorities, builds scalable systems, and includes full SEO and AEO/GEO content audits so teams can focus instead of chasing everything.
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Thought Leadership
Done-for-you articles, op-eds, and social content shaped around a clear, credible POV, using research, industry benchmarking, and storytelling frameworks to reflect your authentic voice.
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Newsletters & Nurtures
Lead gen campaigns and email newsletters designed to grow and nurture your audience, shaped by customer research, the language your buyers use, and where people actually are in the journey — not transactional blasts.
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Workshops & Trainings
Skip the learning curve. Sessions to help your team tap into proven storytelling frameworks to build an owned POV, supported by guidance on SEO, AEO/GEO, and reporting (to make it scalable and measurable).
FAQs
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I step in when teams need senior-level support without adding a FTE.
Most often, I work alongside a CMO or Head of Marketing to unblock decisions, speed things up, and take work off their plate. In other cases, I partner directly with a CEO who knows content matters, but doesn’t want to personally referee every deck, blog post, or LinkedIn announcement.
In practice, this usually looks like:
Content & narrative strategy – Clarifying what your business actually believes, then turning that into a clear, usable story. This includes positioning, core messages, and how your POV shows up across your website, campaigns, thought leadership, and sales materials.
Process & workflow optimization – Spotting where content gets bogged down (too many reviews, unclear ownership, endless rewrites, etc.) and putting more workable systems in place so your team can move faster without cutting corners.
Leadership & enablement – Acting as a senior partner to your marketing team. I mentor copywriters and marketers, set editorial standards, and help teams develop better judgment, not just pump out more output.
Execution with context – Stepping in on launches, refreshes, executive content, and high-stakes narratives, while keeping the bigger picture intact so nothing becomes a one-off.
Cross-functional alignment – Working closely with marketing, sales, product, and leadership so content supports real business goals — not just channel metrics.
Scalability & continuity – Building AI-enabled content systems that hold up as you grow, so the story doesn’t reset every quarter or live only in one person’s head.
Cost-effective senior support – Providing experienced content leadership at a fraction of the cost (which matters when you need clarity and momentum now, not after another hiring cycle).
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A freelancer is a great fit when you know exactly what you need and just want someone to execute it. I’ve done that work myself, and still respect the role.
Freelancers usually come in once the brief is set. Fractional work happens a step before that, and sometimes the value of fractional work even shows up in what stops happening (i.e., fewer one-off assets built in isolation because no one’s looking across the whole system).
Agencies tend to deliver what’s scoped and then move on, which isn’t a flaw so much as the reality of that model.
Fractional leadership sits closer to the business. I’m listening to sales calls, noticing where prospects hesitate, paying attention to what leadership keeps re-explaining, and connecting that back to the story you’re telling and the content you’re producing.
For me, the work isn’t done when an asset ships. I don’t sit in your Monday pipeline standup or carry board pressure the way you do, but I’m close enough to the work that it’s more than deliverables in and invoices out.
That’s what you’re investing in: not just execution, but shared accountability for whether the work actually does what it’s supposed to do.
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It really comes down to how involved you want your team to be.
In a done-for-you setup, I step in as an extension of your team. I handle the research and strategy, writing and editing, and the coordination required to get work from draft to final — and actually out the door. You’re still involved and giving input, but you’re not carrying the execution load.
In a done-with-you setup, your team stays closer to the work. You might be writing internally, testing formats, or building the muscle in-house, and I’m there to sharpen the thinking, tighten the narrative, and keep everything aligned (not full production).
Most teams land somewhere in in the middle, especially as needs evolve.
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I don’t start with a questionnaire or a list of adjectives. I start by listening to conversations already happening, usually in a short working session where you’re explaining something you care about, reacting to an idea, or talking through a decision you’ve had to make recently.
I pay attention to where you speed up, where you hedge, what you repeat without realizing it, and what you refuse to say even when it would be easy. That’s your “voice.”
Then I write quickly and put something concrete in front of you. Not a “final,” but a real draft. Your reactions matter more than your edits. When you say, “I wouldn’t phrase it like that, but this part feels right,” or “I’d never say this, but I would say that,” the voice sharpens fast. One or two rounds like that usually gets us most of the way there.
What helps is that I’m not trying to make you sound smarter or more polished than you are. I’m trying to make the thinking you already do out loud land clearly on the page.
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I’ve worked across B2B SaaS, HR tech, financial services, healthcare, and other categories. Take a peek at my LinkedIn. 👀
I’m comfortable with complex products, long sales cycles, and multiple stakeholders.
That said, industry familiarity is rarely the thing that makes marketing work or not work.
In my experience, what matters more, regardless of category, is whether your messaging sounds like you instead of a composite of competitors and whether the content your team is producing builds toward a POV.
My role is to help you articulate what’s genuinely distinct about your business, put it into language your buyers recognize immediately, and shape it into a system your team can reuse across channels, campaigns, and growth stages, not just a one-off narrative that looks good in a deck.
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For most engagements, I start with a three-month retainer. That’s typically the right amount of time to get a team out of reactive mode and put a clear system in place.
I know you don’t have 90 days for a slow “discovery phase.” You’re underwater. You need things off your plate, not another deck about why things are hard. So the balance is always this: what can I take on immediately, where can I ship in the first week, and how do we do that while still building enough context to avoid repeating the same problems three months from now.
Workshops and team trainings are usually ad hoc, focused engagements. They’re designed to help teams upskill quickly, skip the learning curve, or get unstuck around a specific issue. If that’s all you need, we keep it tight, practical, and outcome-driven.
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Packages usually fall between $4,000–$12,000 per month, depending on scope and level of involvement
Book a call or fill out the contact form and we can talk through what kind of support would be most useful right now. If it makes sense to work together, I’ll follow-up with a tailored quote.
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I’m based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and happy to meet in person when it makes sense, whether that’s a working session, a planning conversation, or just getting out of Slack and into the same room for a bit.
That said, most of my work is done remotely, and I work comfortably with teams across North America and beyond.
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This probably isn’t the right fit if what you need right now is pure execution. If you already know exactly what to say, how to say it, and just need someone to produce a high volume of assets on demand, a freelancer or agency partner will usually be more cost-effective.
It’s also not a great fit if you’re looking for someone to operate in isolation. This work depends on access — to leadership thinking, real conversations, sales feedback, and decision context. Without that, it risks turning into surface-level output.