• Conduct stakeholder interviews (when necessary) or do research as needed to dive deep into audience insights, trends, cultural shifts, and innovations to inform strategy.
• Organize, manage, and facilitate Motto® Brand and Business Strategy workshops for clients.
• Translate strategic discoveries into creative briefs, and be actively involved in briefing creative teams; steer work / facilitate brainstorms to ensure creative aligns to strategy.
• Take complex and sometimes disparate information and thread together simple, clear, impactful themes and ideas to create differentiated brand strategies and emotive stories.
• Write, build presentations, and deliver passionate presentations to c-level execs to help synthesize business problems into actionable steps. This can include insights about consumers, culture, brands, and their competition.
• Take a leadership role in client meetings (as it relates to strategy, delivery of the strategy, and big brand questions).
• Prep, flow, and followup for all workshops you facilitate. Craft additional workshop elements as needed.
• Create key insights and develop a post-workshop Playback Reports to reveal findings and seed early recommendations. 
• Ensure that outcomes of the workshop are guided by the Motto® Method and Mindset itself, rather than internal agendas or personal bias.
• Observe current workshop structure in motion and make suggestions for improvement.
• Be the guide (not the hero) in workshops—focus on helping the participants give their best insights and perspectives.

Who You Are:

• You've got poise, natural charisma and a 'likability' factor. 
• You're a seasoned strategist pro at leading strategic workshops, conversation, and alignment for groups of senior level execs, anywhere from 5-20 participants.
• You are passionate and keep energy levels high and positive.
• Can design and run strategic workshops with c-suite leaders independently. 
• You ask the right questions in different ways to get the answers you need.
• You've got mastery-level facilitation tactics. You are a leader in a room full of hotheads or fly-on-the-wall observers who aren't speaking up.
• You have the ability to embrace productive conflict and actively encourage debate and dialogue with the goal of listening to understand.
• Knowledge of online facilitation tools that enhance the virtual workshop experience—we currently use Butter, Zoom, and Miro.
• You can keep a group of participants focused, on topic, and on time to make the most of your time together while creating an inclusive and enjoyable experience.
• A talent for simplifying complex ideas in a way that's approachable to participants both during workshops and after.
• You are a team player, not a lone wolf. You are collaborative and helpful.
• Avoid gossip and drama in the workplace and think of yourself as a positive-minded person.
• You have access to high-quality lighting, audio, and web cam for the most professional presence during virtual workshops. Access to reliable internet and a distraction-free location to ensure workshops are smooth and uninterrupted.

• Facilitating leaders at a c-suite level or higher.
• Experience coaching or mentoring other facilitators.
• Some design chops are a plus but not mandatory.

• Work from anywhere.
• Flexible schedule.
• Paid holidays.
• Paid birthday off.
• Educational/training perks.
• Spotify membership.

Seeking an experienced and charismatic brand strategist that uses workshop facilitation as a way to align stakeholders around big brand ideas, clarify the brand, and guide client teams to insightful outcomes. You are a brand strategist at the core and have developed strong facilitation chops over time. You are comfortable facilitating workshops (in person/virtual) with the world's leading companies and teams. You can draft a brand strategy and facilitation is how you get there. Strategy is your first language and facilitation is what gets your strategies bought in and supported by our clients. 

This is a freelance contract position with the potential for full time W2 employment.