Strategist Community Leader Artist Mother Working Creative

Strategist Community Leader Artist Mother Working Creative

Marketing Strategy & Cultural Intelligence

Where brand strategy meets cultural truth

15+ years at the intersection of performance marketing and creative culture. Available for consulting, fractional leadership, and speaking — for brands ready to build something worth paying attention to.

15+
Years leading brand & cultural strategy

2x
Double-digit brand sentiment lifts

Cannes Lions · CLIO · SABRE · Digiday · Effie Awards · Ad Age
Award-recognized work across brand, social, and content

"Reb has the rare ability to translate cultural fluency into brand performance — she thinks like a strategist and feels like an artist."

Clients & Collaborations

Luxury / Lifestyle

HUGO BOSS

Dockers

Pernod Ricard

INFINITI

Consumer Electronics

Master & Dynamic

Samsung

Entertainment

Tony Moore

Portlandia

Maron

Independent Film Channel

Maria Sharapova

Columbia Records

Wet

Christian Scott

CPG / QSR

Johnson & Johnson

‘Oreo

Trojan Condoms

Dunkin’

Newell Brands

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Dunkin’

Oscar Mayer

Arts / Culture / Design

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MR GIF

City Arts NYC

Wallpaper Magazine

Adam Katz Sinding

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Kabinett

Nest Arts Factory

Leaders of Software and Arts

Travel

United Airlines

Marriott International

Finance

Charles Schwab

Chubb Insurance

Ways to Work Together

Whether you need sharp strategic thinking, a trusted fractional voice, or a speaker who can hold a room — I bring the same dual fluency in data and culture to every engagement.

Brand & Content Strategy

Audits, positioning, content architecture, and roadmaps for brands navigating cultural complexity at scale.

Fractional Leadership

VP-level strategic thinking without full-time overhead. Ideal for brands in growth phases or between hires.

Speaking & Panels

Keynotes and panel moderation on brand strategy, cultural intelligence, creative labor, and the future of content.

Speaking

Topics I speak on

Talks that move beyond frameworks — drawing from real brand experience and an active creative practice.

Culture as Competitive Advantage

How brands with genuine cultural fluency outperform those chasing trends.

The Creative Labor Paradox

What happens when organizations industrialize creativity — and what to do instead.

Content at Scale Without Losing Soul

Building content systems that perform without losing brand voice or creative integrity.

The Working Creative

Navigating identity, labor, and meaning for creative professionals inside modern organizations.

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Reb Carlson bridges two worlds most organizations keep separate: the rigorous, data-driven world of brand strategy — and the living, human world of culture and creative practice.

With 15+ years leading marketing and cultural strategy for global brands like United Airlines, Marriott, HUGO BOSS, Dunkin', and Johnson & Johnson, Reb has built the kind of expertise that moves numbers: double-digit lifts in brand sentiment, engagement, and acquisition, and campaigns recognized by Cannes Lions, CLIO, SABRE, and Digiday. As VP of Consumer Experience & Content Strategy at Razorfish (Publicis Groupe), she has led multidisciplinary teams across social, CRM, influencer, and digital experience at scale.

But Reb's edge isn't just her corporate track record. She is also a practicing visual artist, curator, and nonprofit arts leader — currently serving as President of The Gallery ATX, a woman-powered organization expanding access, visibility, and economic opportunity for artists in Austin. Her work in the arts isn't a side passion. It's the lens that makes her strategy sharper: she understands how creative work is made, what gives it meaning, and what it takes to sustain it.

That dual fluency — in performance and platforms, in culture and craft — is what she brings to the organizations she works with. Reb is available for consulting, fractional leadership, and speaking engagements with brands, platforms, and cultural institutions building something worth paying attention to.

WORKING CREATIVE

Working Creative is analysis, community, and hands-on support for artists and creatives navigating a changing landscape — through original writing on the business of culture, workshops, and one-on-one guidance.

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