Marketing Consultant · Brooklyn & Hudson, NY

I listen carefully, then do something surprising.

I help organizations find their audience and reach them — through strong fundamentals in social, email, content, and paid media. And the occasional idea nobody saw coming.

10+
Years in arts & culture
NYC
Brooklyn & Hudson based
MA
Art History, NYU
Questions before answering

Brand Strategy Email Social Paid Media Content SEO

Marketing rooted in deep listening — and a decade in culture.

I'm Michael — a marketing consultant with a decade spent inside New York's cultural institutions.

What I do consistently is listen. I spend real time understanding an organization — its people, its tensions, its genuine strengths — and then finding the thread that connects all of that to an audience, whether built or entirely new. The ideas that emerge from that process tend to be unexpected: sometimes a triggered email sequence, sometimes an influencer collaboration, sometimes a Tolkien-themed evening for 685 guests that earned an interactive feature in The New York Times.

My background is in arts and culture, but the approach translates broadly — any organization with a real story to tell is a good fit. When a project calls for design, photography, video, or illustration, I can scope, brief, and coordinate the right specialists so you have one relationship to manage, not five.

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Selected experience
  • The Morgan Library & Museum Mgr, Marketing & Social Media
  • R & Company Marketing Manager
  • Roundtable by 92NY Director of Marketing
  • MoMA PS1 Previous role
  • Center for Book Arts Previous role
  • Alejandro Jassan Press & Social · Freelance
  • Studio Humelim Brand & Content · Freelance
  • Eskenazi Zemaitis Brand Strategy · Freelance
  • Listen first, always The best ideas come from genuinely understanding an organization — its people, its culture, what makes it irreplaceable. I ask a lot of questions before I say anything.
  • Unexpected is often best The ideas that really move people tend to come from an oblique angle. I'm always looking for the connection that isn't obvious but, once you see it, feels inevitable.
  • Community over metrics Numbers matter, but the goal is people who genuinely care — who show up, bring friends, donate, and come back.
  • No jargon, no fluff I communicate clearly and directly. You'll always know what I'm thinking, what I'd recommend, and why.