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
HUGO BOSS
‘Oreo
Trojan Condoms
Pernod Ricard
Marriott International
Tony Moore
Portlandia
Independent Film Channel
Maria Sharapova
Columbia Records
Wet
‘Christian Scott
Trojan Condoms
Adam Katz Sinding
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Dockers
MR GIF
Master & Dynamic
Johnson & Johnson
United Airlines
Dunkin’
Newell Brands
Charles Swab
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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.
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.
Get in Touch
Interested in a consulting project, fractional engagement, or booking a speaking appearance? Tell me a bit about what you're working on.