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Creative influence strategy

For brands people need to
trust before they choose.

I help brand and agency teams build creator, affiliate, ambassador, expert, advocacy, and partner-led campaigns and programs.

  • Who should be involved.
  • What each person or partner is there to change.
  • What the audience needs to understand, believe, or do.
  • What the campaign or program needs to prove.
  • What has to hold up across creative, review, and performance.
Confidentiality
Anonymous by default.
Client and company names are omitted when the relationship, strategy,…
GLOBAL HEALTHCARE
28K+
Educational resource clicks
I shaped patient education around the questions people needed answered…
NATIONAL RETAILER
$2M+
Attributable holiday revenue
A creator program produced more than one million tracked store visits…
HIGH GROWTH DTC
$1M+
Quarterly ambassador sales
I rebuilt a 3,000-person ambassador program around clearer roles, part…
The work

Before the visible campaign.

I use research, market signals, audience behavior, competitive context, and partner mapping to help teams decide what needs to change, who people already trust, what the brand is asking them to believe or do, and which partners should be involved.

That can mean deciding:

  • What a creator, affiliate, ambassador, expert, publisher, or partner should be responsible for changing.
  • How commission, flat fees, access, content, and support should match each partner’s role.
  • What the audience needs before they will buy, return, recommend, subscribe, donate, or participate.
  • What claims, proof, disclosures, or review requirements need to hold up.
Where I work

Brands and programs where trust shapes the decision.

That usually means healthcare, consumer health, clinical beauty, wellness, supplements, premium DTC, retail, affiliate, advocacy, and other high-consideration categories. Industry matters less than the level of judgement, I'm there to provide 

Patient, advocate, HCP, expert, caregiver, and community-informed work where credibility, review, and context matter.

Selected work

What changed, and what happened next.

Selected cases across healthcare, DTC, retail, affiliate, ambassador, expert, advocacy, community, and corporate partnership work.

$1.2 million secured in 12 months

The organization signed its first single-sponsor agreement above $300,000, and every major corporate relationship expanded.

The problem. The organization needed corporate revenue large enough to change its operating capacity, but the existing sponsorship model did not give corporate contacts enough business value to secure larger commitments, expand the relationship, or make renewal easier.

What I changed. I rebuilt the function around modular partnerships, internal corporate champions, audience and research value, employee participation, account growth, and renewal.

Creative within bounds
The creative gets weaker when teams define the bounds too late.
Change

What needs to change for the business, audience, or relationship?

Job

What is this partner responsible for doing in the program?

Value

What does the partner contribute, and what do they receive in return?

Built to be reviewed

Marketing strategy for the decisions that shape the campaign or program..

I help teams account for claims, boundaries, source roles, and review before production starts, so patients, caregivers, experts, creators, and publishers can still sound like themselves after approval.

Agency partnership

For agencies and consulting teams.

I lead the workstream. The client relationship stays yours.

How I help

Senior strategy for the decisions that shape the work.

Strategy sprints

Focused decision-making for teams that need clarity on the audience, partner roles, claims, investment, review path, offer, or program direction..

Program builds

Strategy and program design across creators, affiliates, ambassadors, experts, advocates, communities, publishers, retail partners, and internal teams..

Agency and team support

Senior strategy support for pitches, client workstreams, workshops, and temporary capacity gaps..

Advisory and workshops

Senior judgment for teams that need sharper decisions before they spend, brief, or move more. .

Writing, talks, and notes

What is influencing people, and what that changes about the work.

WIP is where I write about what is influencing people and what that changes about marketing strategy, creators, affiliates, platforms, casting, claims, review, partner roles, and campaign decisions.

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Bring me in to do what I do best

I support campaign and program strategy, workshops, speaking, pitch support, and agency partnerships across healthcare, DTC, retail, consumer health, beauty, wellness, advocacy, and other high-consideration categories.

Candice the Strategist

Strategy for creator, expert, and advocacy-led work.

Marketing strategist based in New York.

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Some work is named publicly. Some work is anonymized to respect agency, client, and partner relationships.

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