My Skills
My skillset has focused around cross-disciplinary strategic development, campaigns, graphics, copy, content, tools, systems, relationship building, data analytics, process creation and optimization, goal tracking, and managing teams. These are but some of the skills I rely on when launching marketing, business development from thought to profit.
- Strategic Thinking
- Go-To-Market Strategy
- Digital Transformation
- User-Centered / Human-Centered Design & Product Development
- Roadmap, Prioritization & Project Management
- Customer-Centric Strategy, Psychology & Journey Mapping
- Data-Driven Decision Making & Data Analysis
- Communication & Collaboration
- Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Adaptibility & Problem Solving
- Sales & Persuasion
- Negotiation & Influence
- Marketing & Growth Hacking
- Knowledge Management & Process Optimization
- AI-First Experience Design & Engineering
- Technical Proficiency
Strategic Thinking
Growth Engines
a systematic approach to scaling a business by leveraging repeatable, self-sustaining loops—such as viral referrals, content marketing, paid acquisition, or product-led growth—to drive continuous user acquisition, retention, and revenue expansion.
OKRS (Objectives and Key Results)
Mapping and aligning goals and performance.
The Rockefeller Habits (Verne Harnish)
A system that focuses on disciplined execution through structured meetings, goal tracking, and cultural alignment.
The Blitzscaling Framework (Reid Hoffman)
A growth methodology that prioritizes speed over efficiency in scaling businesses to dominate markets rapidly.
McKinsey’s Three Horizons of Growth
A strategic model ensuring businesses balance immediate revenue, mid-term scaling, and long-term disruptive innovation.
Porter’s Five Forces
A competitive analysis framework that examines industry rivalry, buyer and supplier power, threat of new entrants, and substitute products.
Blue Ocean Strategy
Finding uncontested market space by focusing on differentiation and low-cost value creation.
Ultra-Lean Scaling (Minimally Viable Growth)
A model that emphasizes incremental scaling through cash-positive operations without heavy funding.
Micro-Franchising
A method of rapidly scaling by creating small, repeatable, and affordable business units.
McKinsey’s 7S Framework
model ensuring alignment between structure, strategy, systems, skills, style, staff, and shared values.
Internal Accelerator Program
A corporate innovation system that incubates and scales multiple ventures within a parent company.
$100 MBA Methodology
tiny experiments before large investments.
Venture Studio Model
A structured program that fosters fast-tracked scaling of employee-led innovations inside an organization.
Heroik Culture Anywhere
A rich and remote-first, flourish in facetime approach to company culture, focusing on personal and professional development, alignment, digital liquidity, adaptability and success no matter what principles.
"Skunk Works" Approach
Small, secretive innovation teams in a big company.
H6 Digital Liquidity Framework
Evaluate based on driving factors of digital liquidity and impact on business.
Business Model Canvas (BMC)
A one-page visual tool for mapping out business model components, including value propositions, customer segments, and revenue streams.
Lean Canvas (Ash Maurya)
A stripped-down version of the Business Model Canvas designed for rapid iteration and validation in high-risk startups.
EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System)
a structured process for goal setting, accountability, and operational clarity.
Customer-Funded Business Model (John Mullins)
Uses pre-sales, subscriptions, or customer financing to fund operations instead of venture capital.
Minimalist Business Model
A strategy that operates on the bare minimum expenses to maximize survival and profitability.
Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model
A framework guiding organizations through cultural and transformational changes.
Tribal Leadership (Dave Logan)
A culture-building model that moves organizations from individualistic mindsets to high-performing collaborative tribes.
Culture Code (HubSpot Model)
A dynamic and flexible approach to company culture, focusing on transparency, autonomy, and innovation.
Effectuation Theory
Prioritizes leveraging existing resources, networks, and opportunities instead of extensive long-term planning.
Lean Startup & Lean Enterprise (Eric Ries)
A framework applying lean startup principles within large organizations to foster agility and innovation.
Mission Command Leadership
A decentralized leadership approach that empowers teams with clear intent while allowing autonomy in execution.
Internal Incubator Model
A process where employees pitch ideas and receive company-backed resources to develop new ventures.
Bootstrapping Finance Model
A method of scaling a business through reinvesting profits rather than external funding.
Revenue First Model
A cash flow management approach that prioritizes generating revenue before scaling operations.
Sweat Equity Model
A financing method where founders and early employees exchange work for equity rather than salaries.
Profit First (Mike Michalowicz)
A cash flow management system that ensures businesses prioritize profit before expenses.
Go-To Market Strategy
Crossing The Chasm
Focuses on narrowing the target market to a specific niche of early adopters, building a strong beachhead, and leveraging their success to gain mainstream market adoption.
Internal Kickstarter
An employee-driven crowdfunding approach within a company where teams pitch new ideas to secure internal buy-in, funding, and resources—validating demand before full-scale development.
Pre-orders & Waitlists
Create early demand, validate market interest, and build anticipation by allowing customers to commit to a product before launch, often leveraging exclusivity and scarcity to drive engagement.
Reddit, ProductHunt, Gumroad, IndieHacker Launches
Leverage community-driven platforms to generate organic buzz, validate ideas, and attract early adopters by engaging in authentic discussions, sharing value-driven content, and positioning the product within relevant niche audiences.
Digital Transformation
AI-First Strategy
Embedding AI at the core of experience design.
Digital Twin Strategy
MIT Sloan’s Digital Maturity Model
A framework assessing an organization’s digital capabilities across strategy, culture, operations, and technology.
Gartner's Digital Transformation Framework
Structured roadmap for digital evolution.
H6 Digital Liquidity Framework
Evaluate based on driving factors of digital liquidity and impact on business.
Stealth Internal Marketing
Platform Thinking
A business model focused on creating network effects by enabling interactions between users, content creators, and service providers.
Unified AI Agent Strategy
Implementing centralized AI for internal workflows.
McKinsey’s Three Horizons of Growth
A strategic model that ensures businesses invest in short-term wins, mid-term scaling, and long-term disruptive innovation simultaneously.
Frugal Innovation (Jugaad Methodology)
A resource-efficient approach to designing impactful solutions with minimal budget and constraints.
User Centered / Human Centered Design & Product Development
Design Thinking
Identify user pain points and create personas, ensuring product decisions are tied to real customer needs.
Jobs To Be Done (JTBD)
Instead of asking, “Who is our customer?” it asks, “What is our customer trying to get done?”
Lean UX
Rapid, low-cost testing and iteration.
Design Sprints
Fast iteration for internal innovation.
Shadow Testing / Fake Door Testing
Validating demand for a product, service, or feature before building it by creating a fake (but convincing) customer experience.
Seeing RED (Red Room + Red Team)
Where ideas go to die, RED Customer Advocate Team mercilessly beats the crap out of the product and prioritizes feature development after careful analysis .
Mom Test
Asking better customer validation questions by ensuring that even your own mom (or any biased person) wouldn’t lie to protect your feelings.
Wizard of Oz Testing
Fake backend simulating real product experience.
Roadmap /Prioritization / Project Management
MoSCoW Framework
Categorizes tasks or requirements into Must-Have, Should-Have, Could-Have, and Won’t-Have (for now).
Kano Model
Categorizes product features into Basic Needs, Performance Needs, and Delighters.
Scrum
Organizes work into short, iterative sprints with defined roles.
KanBan
Uses a board with columns (e.g., To Do, In Progress, Done) to optimize work efficiency, limit bottlenecks, and ensure continuous delivery.
Scrumban
Combines Scrum’s structured sprints with Kanban’s continuous workflow.
SAFe Agile
(Scaled Agile Framework) that integrates Lean, Scrum, and KanBan.
RICE Framework
Prioritize features based on Reach, Impact, Confidence, and Effort.
Now / Next / Later
Categorizes work into Now (immediate priorities), Next (upcoming tasks), and Later (future considerations) to provide clear, flexible, and high-level project planning without rigid deadlines.
Trello & Notion as "Mini-JIRA"
Using light PM tools to set up boards, lists, and tasks (like JIRA issues) with key elements such as Backlog, In Progress, Done, adding labels for priorities, using checklists for subtasks, and integrating automation or databases to track workflows, sprints, and team collaboration.
Rogue Prioritization Workshop
An unconventional, fast-paced strategy session where teams challenge traditional prioritization methods by exploring bold, contrarian, or high-risk, high-reward ideas, often surfacing overlooked opportunities and breaking free from bureaucratic decision-making.
Twitter (X) Poll Validation
Quick gauge audience interest in an idea, product, or feature by running a poll on (X) and using engagement data as an early indicator of demand.
Stealth Agile
Gradually introducing Agile principles into an organization without formally announcing it, using subtle process improvements to gain buy-in and demonstrate value before full adoption.
Customer Centric Strategy, Customer Psychology, & Journey Mapping
Gartner's Customer Experience Pyramid
Prioritizes CX elements into three levels: functional (basic needs), emotional (engagement), and transformational (loyalty and advocacy).
Hook Model (Nir Eyal’s Habit Formation)
A behavioral framework that creates habit-forming products by leveraging triggers, actions, rewards, and investments.
Scrappy AB Testing (MVP Experiments)
Running low-cost, high-impact split tests on landing pages, email sequences, or small user groups to optimize experience with minimal budget.
BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits Method
A behavior design approach that makes customer engagement easier by starting with small, easily repeatable actions.
Fogg Behavior Model
A framework that explains how motivation, ability, and triggers interact to drive consumer behavior.
Behavioral Journey Analytics
A method that maps and analyzes user behavior at different touchpoints to optimize customer experience.
Cognitive Load Reduction
A CX principle that simplifies information presentation and interactions to minimize friction in user experiences.
Real-Time CX Dashboards
Live tracking of experience metrics.
Micro-Moment Mapping (Google’s Think with Google Model)
A rapid-response CX method focused on identifying and capitalizing on key “I-want-to” moments in a customer’s journey.
Value Proposition Canvas (VPC)
A visual framework that ensures a product or service aligns with customer needs, pains, and gains for maximum resonance.
Customer Discovery (Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Methodology)
– A structured approach to validating business assumptions by directly engaging with customers early and often.
Voice of the Customer (VoC) Analytics
A structured approach to gathering and analyzing customer feedback to refine internal product and service experiences.
StoryBrand Framework (Donald Miller)
Positions customers as heroes and businesses as guides to build strong emotional connections.
Loss Aversion (Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky)
A cognitive bias model that focuses on making customers act by highlighting what they stand to lose.
Experience Loop Framework
– A continuous feedback cycle of “observe, analyze, act, improve” within corporate environments to refine CX strategies.
Customer Discovery (Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Methodology)
– A structured approach to validating business assumptions by directly engaging with customers early and often.
Design Thinking (Stanford d.school)
A human-centered problem-solving methodology that emphasizes empathy, ideation, and prototyping for business innovation.
Forrester Customer Experience Index (CX Index)
Evaluates and benchmarks customer experience quality across industries based on effectiveness, ease, and emotional resonance.
Scarcity & Urgency Framework (Robert Cialdini)
A psychological tactic used to drive immediate customer decisions by emphasizing limited availability.
Neuromarketing (Roger Dooley’s Brainfluence Model)
A set of marketing techniques that leverage neuroscience principles to drive engagement and conversions.
Choice Architecture (Nudge Theory)
A decision-making framework that subtly guides users toward desired actions through UX and messaging design.
Data-Driven Decision Making & Data Analysis
HEART Framework
Google Sheets / Notion as a BI Tool
Shadow Analytics
AARRR Pirate Metrics
Predictive Analytics
Using AI to forecast customer behaviors.
Cohort Analysis (Mixpanel, Amplitude)
Communication & Collaboration
Amazon’s 6-Page Memo
A structured, narrative-driven approach to decision-making using a six-page written document that clearly outlines the problem, analysis, proposed solution, and expected impact—forcing deep thinking, clear reasoning, and better discussions in meetings.
Mafia Meetings
Strategic sessions where key decision-makers and stakeholders identify bottlenecks, prioritize improvements, and align on high-impact changes to optimize business processes and efficiency. Named after the Mafia’s “offer you can’t refuse” because they aim to present such a compelling case for change that stakeholders have no logical reason to reject it.
One-Pager Pitches
CX Co-Creation Labs
Cold Outreach for Quick Feedback (LinkedIn, Twitter (X))
Directly messaging industry experts, potential users, or target customers with a short, clear ask—typically for insights or validation—leveraging social proof, specificity, and brevity to maximize response rates.
Leadership & Stakeholder Management
Situational Leadership
An adaptive approach—directing, coaching, supporting, or delegating—based on the team’s competence, confidence, and specific situational needs.
Leadership Without Authority
The ability to influence, guide, and inspire others without relying on formal power or hierarchy, using persuasion, expertise, collaboration, and trust to drive action and achieve goals.
Founder-Led Evangelism
The founder actively promotes their vision, product, and mission—through storytelling, thought leadership, and direct engagement—to build credibility, attract customers, and create a passionate community around their brand.
"Surprise & Delight" Influence Tactics
unexpected, personalized gestures or rewards that create emotional impact, foster loyalty, and amplify word-of-mouth advocacy by exceeding customer or stakeholder expectations.
Under the Radar Pilots
Small-scale, low-visibility experiments designed to test new ideas, products, or processes without attracting excessive scrutiny, allowing teams to validate assumptions, iterate quickly, and gain internal buy-in before broader rollout.
Adaptability & Problem Solving
OODA Loop
(Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) to rapidly assess situations, adapt strategies, and outmaneuver opponents by cycling through continuous observation, analysis, and action.
First Principles Thinking
Break complex issues down to their fundamental truths, allowing individuals to challenge assumptions, rethink solutions from the ground up, and develop innovative, logic-driven strategies.
Burn The Boats
A high-commitment adaptability strategy where individuals or teams eliminate fallback options, put their names and reputations on the line forcing total focus, creative problem-solving, and relentless execution to achieve success with no retreat. Succeed or perish.
Micro-Pivots
Run low-risk, off-the-radar experiments to test new ideas, refine strategies, and develop innovative solutions before formal implementation.
Sales & Persuasion
Challenger Sale Methodology
Take control of the conversation by educating prospects, reframing their thinking, and pushing them out of their comfort zones, leading with insight rather than just relationship-building.
Charm Pricing Hacks
leverages tactics like pricing ending in .99 or .95, anchoring, 3 tier pricing, and perceived value adjustments to subtly influence buying decisions and make prices feel more attractive.
Storyselling Methodology
Uses compelling narratives, emotional connections, and relatable characters to engage prospects, build trust, and make the value of a product or service more memorable and persuasive.
SPIN Selling
Uses a structured questioning approach—Situation, Problem, Implication, and Need-Payoff—to uncover customer pain points and guide them toward recognizing the value of a solution.
Social Video / Podcast as a Sales Funnel / TikTok / YouTube / Reels / IG
Leverages short-form and long-form video content to attract, engage, and convert audiences, using storytelling, social proof, and calls-to-action to seamlessly guide viewers from awareness to purchase.
Frictionless Sales
Focuses on removing obstacles, simplifying the buying process, and reducing decision fatigue to make purchasing effortless and intuitive for customers.
Lunchroom Lobbying
Building influence through casual, low-pressure conversations in everyday settings, fostering trust, planting ideas, and gaining buy-in without formal pitches.
Negotiation & Influence
BATNA
Identify and improve one’s best fallback option, ensuring leverage and confidence in any deal-making scenario.
Reciprocity Bias
Leverages the psychological tendency for people to feel obligated to return favors, making them more likely to say yes after receiving value upfront.
Cialdini’s Six Principles of Influence
A persuasion model that leverages reciprocity, scarcity, authority, commitment, liking, and social proof to drive customer action.
Boss-Level Negotiation Hacks
Ahigh-stakes negotiation strategy that combines power positioning, strategic silence, asymmetric information, and controlled aggression to maximize leverage and secure the most favorable outcome.
Marketing & Growth Hacking
Growth Hacking
Leverages rapid experimentation across marketing, product, and customer service to drive scalable business growth.
Newsletter-First Growth (Substack)
Conversion Copywriting (AIDA + PAS Frameworks)
A mix of attention-grabbing (AIDA: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action) and pain-driven (PAS: Problem, Agitate, Solve) messaging for impact.
SEO & Paid Ads
a dual-channel marketing strategy that combines organic search engine optimization for long-term visibility with paid advertising for immediate traffic and conversions, creating a balanced, scalable growth engine.
Reverse Affiliate Hacking
Instead of joining affiliate programs, you create your own and recruit influencers, creators, or businesses to promote your product, turning them into commission-driven evangelists for scalable growth.
K-Factor Viral Growth
A growth hacking metric that measures viral growth by calculating how many new users each existing user brings in, helping businesses optimize referral loops and maximize organic expansion.
Stealth Internal Marketing
Knowledge Management & Process Optimization
Notion / Zapier / Make Workflows
Automation-driven knowledge management system that integrates Notion with Zapier and Make (Integromat) to streamline data capture, automate repetitive tasks, and optimize workflow efficiency across multiple apps and platforms.
Notion Mastery - Marie Poulin
Customize Notion for task management, goal setting, documentation, and personal productivity through modular, interconnected databases and systems.
Digital Liquidity - Managing Entropy in Digital Systems
Understanding the core factors that drive and affect value in information systems, and addressing systemic level disorder and mitigating its effects.
Second Brain - Tiago Forte
Leverages digital note-taking, organization, and retrieval techniques to store, process, and optimize information flow, enhancing productivity, creativity, and decision-making.
Steal Like an Artist Method
Encourages remixing, reinterpreting, and building upon existing ideas while curating and organizing inspiration to fuel original work and innovation.
Stealth AI Agents
Unofficial automation for productivity hacks.
Getting Things Done (GTD) Systems
Helps individuals capture, clarify, organize, reflect, and execute tasks efficiently, reducing mental clutter and improving workflow optimization.
Accidental Documentation
A lightweight knowledge management approach where teams naturally create and refine documentation by embedding notes, decisions, and processes into daily workflows, tools, and communication channels rather than treating it as a separate task.
AI-First Experience Design & Engineering
Unified AI Agent
An advanced AI system that integrates multiple modular subroutines (recurisive, contextual expansion, refinement and curation), within a single architecture, enabling seamless collaboration and efficient task execution without the complexities of coordinating multiple agents.
AI-Powered Personalization
AI-Powered Personalization (RAG AI Framework)
Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (RAG)
Enhancing language models by retrieving relevant external data in real-time to generate more accurate, context-aware, and up-to-date responses.
Crew AI & Multi-Agent Chain
Advanced AI orchestration method that coordinates multiple AI agents with specialized roles, enabling them to collaborate, communicate, and execute complex tasks autonomously through structured workflows and decision-making protocols.
Zero-Shot Learning
A technique where a model generalizes and makes predictions on tasks it has never seen before by leveraging prior knowledge, contextual understanding, and natural language reasoning without needing task-specific training data.
AI Agents
AI models structured as autonomous agents that process inputs (RAG context & workflow integration), make decisions, and execute tasks using iterative reasoning, memory, and external tool integrations.
Multi-Shot Learning
A technique where a model improves accuracy by learning from multiple examples within a prompt, leveraging contextual patterns to generate more precise and relevant outputs.
Technical Proficiency
No-Code/Low-Code (AirTable, Zapier, Make, Bubble, Notion)
Platforms that enable users to build applications quickly using visual interfaces, drag-and-drop components, and pre-built integrations, reducing the need for traditional coding while accelerating deployment.
API First Development
Apps are designed around well-defined APIs from the start, ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and reusability across multiple platforms and services.
CI/CD Pipelines
Chrome Extensions as MVPs
lightweight, easily deployable prototypes that allow startups to test product ideas, validate demand, and gather user feedback with minimal development effort.
Internal API Hacking
Build on top of existing company APIs without official endorsement.