Office Hours 1:1 marketing career coaching and consulting
One-hour, 1-1, roll-our-sleeves-up sessions built for real work. Come with a question, a challenge, or work in progress. We’ll dig in together.
$425 / hour Often expensable through your L&D budget
You’ll leave with at least one “huh!” moment.
That’s the guarantee: one idea that helps fix whatever’s broken. And I’ll make it fun 😉.
The details
- Format
- 1-on-1 video call
- Length
- One hour
- Price
- $425 Often expensable through your Learning & Development budget. I can provide an invoice as documentation.
- Focus
- Marketing strategy, marketing career development, marketing job search.
- Prep
- I’ll send you a short intake form to fill out before we meet.
- After
- A written recap, the relevant exercises and templates we discussed, an async review of whatever you revise, and warm intros from my network.
What an hour actually produces
Totally customized depending on what you bring. Example outcomes from real Office Hours sessions:
- A job title you’d never thought to search for, which turned out to be the side door into the kind of org you wanted.
- A five-step job search framework, so you stop applying to things out of fear.
- A fresh LinkedIn About page that repositions you for the roles you want.
- A straight answer on the MBA question.
- A straight answer to the performance marketing vs. brand marketing question.
- My favorite two exercises to determine your professional values.
- Guidance on how to structure your growing team, based on hiring dozens of marketers at 7 companies.
- Warm intros, once we hone in on what you’re looking for.
Still in the operating seat
I’m the CMO of Ollie. Over the past 15+ years I’ve helped scale, evolve and exit consumer-obsessed brands across industries ranging from fast food to retail tech, so I’ll shape my guidance based on my real-time experience as a marketing executive.
- Three IPOs
- Shake Shack
Sweetgreen
BARK - Fortune 500
- Anheuser-Busch InBev
Target - Acquired
- Ollie
Member of the AdWeek Marketing Vanguard for CMOs. Honored as Ad Age and Brand Innovators 40 Under 40 in 2019.
Marketing was never my plan
Confession: I never meant to be a marketer. I studied English, creative writing and art history. I played jazz drums. I thought I’d write books or edit magazines.
What I didn’t see coming was that marketing would become the place where all of that converged. Creativity, systems thinking and human behavior, all in one discipline.
Then I spent more than 15 years climbing toward the roles I’d imagined would fix something, and when I finally got there, things felt pretty much the same. There was no parting-of-the-heavens moment.
What I’ve realized, in myself and in the people I’ve led and worked alongside, is that the shift towards energy and meaning at work comes from getting specific about what actually lights you up, usually something you discovered by age 12 and dropped by age 22, and then finding a way to put it back inside the work you already have.
We spend childhood becoming multidimensional, then adulthood learning to compress ourselves into a little job-shaped box. I believe people are capable of more than the corporate world packages us as, and the route back to ourselves is self-knowledge of our multidimensionality.
I help people reshape the job so more of them fits inside it.
We all deserve work that energizes us, and we don’t have to blow our lives up to find it.
None of this is vibes, by the way. Interests show real continuity from adolescence into adulthood, work that fits them tends to feel better across 105 studies and nearly 40,000 people, and people can successfully reshape the jobs they already have around them.
What Office Hours attendees say
“She had reviewed my LinkedIn top to bottom before we’d even said hello.”
I came to Allison at a very uncertain time in my career and what struck me immediately was how prepared she was for our 1:1. She asked incredibly thoughtful questions that helped her understand not only my situation, but me as a person. Within 10–15 minutes, she had a remarkably clear grasp of what I was navigating, and throughout our conversation she drew on a depth of marketing industry knowledge that spans everything from traditional environments to startups. What makes Allison truly special is that she manages to be completely disarming and human while also being one of the sharpest and most credible marketing professionals I’ve spoken with. She reflects back what she sees with honesty and warmth. I left our call with clearer direction, concrete action items, and most importantly, a sense of hope. If you’re navigating a turning point in your career, Allison is an excellent and empathetic guide.
“Whenever I hit a wall, she’s one of the first people I call.”
Allison has fundamentally changed how I think about marketing. She’s as sharp at the 10,000-foot view as she is in the weeds, and she moves between brand positioning, measurement and people issues without missing a beat. She asks the tough questions and always backs her advice up with personal experience.
Questions
Who is this for?
Senior in-house marketers, independent marketing consultants and agency leads, from senior managers through CMOs. Also people moving into marketing from an adjacent function.
If you’re a founder or CEO who needs a marketing engine built, Advisory is the better fit.
Can I expense marketing coaching through work?
Often, yes. Plenty of companies cover sessions through Learning and Development budgets. I can provide an invoice as documentation.
What makes this different from an executive coach?
I’m still running a marketing org, full-time. Most coaches in this space left the operating seat years ago. Whatever I tell you about how a CMO decides something, I decided something like it this quarter.
Do you help with career pivots and job searches?
Totally, it’s a big share of what I do. And after we meet I’m happy to make direct intros to folks in my network.
Do you get into AI?
If it’s useful, yes. I run a lot of hands-on experimentation with how tools like Claude make marketing work more creative without making it less human. If you’re weighing what to automate, what to protect, or how to talk about AI fluency in an interview, we can cover it.
I don’t have one specific problem. I just feel bored and burnt out at work. Is that a waste of an hour?
These are my favorite conversations to have. I’m on a mission to help people un-blah their work by rediscovering their multidimensional fascinations, instincts, abilities and obsessions.
If this resonates, I write about it every Sunday in my free newsletter.
What happens after I book?
You’ll get a confirmation with the video link and a short intake form.
What happens after the session?
A written recap, plus whatever fits what we worked on: exercises, templates, tools, introductions. If you go revise something and send it back, I’ll review it async.
What if one hour isn’t enough?
Book recurring sessions. If what you need is ongoing help, that’s what Advisory is for.
Pick a time
Come with a question, a challenge, or work in progress.
$425 Per one-hour session. Often expensable via L&D budgets.