Creative & strategic partner for your next chapter.

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For founders and teams who want a partner for their brand, website, marketing ecosystem, and key business decisions—without hiring a full-time creative director or in-house strategist.

Let’s start with a Brand, Website & Business Strategy Consult so you can get clear on your most aligned next step.

Holding the whole picture and knowing what to implement next is often a challenge for founder-led businesses.


This partnership tends to be a good fit if:

  • Your work is established, but your brand or website still reflects an earlier stage.

  • Marketing happens in pieces—site updates here, campaigns there, email in the middle.

  • You’re leading a growing business, and creative direction keeps falling to the bottom of your list.

  • You have support (or are ready for it), but no one is holding the full story and strategy.

  • You want a consistent partner who understands your business, values, and priorities over time.


What we focus on—and how it moves forward

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• Clarify your core narrative and positioning
• Tie your offers and content into one clear through-line

Process: Map what’s working and surface the story your brand needs next.

Brand & Story

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• Define the role your site needs to play now
• Map key journeys from first impression to “yes”

Process: Prioritize the changes and pages with the most impact

Website & Client Journey

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• Shape launch and campaign concepts
• Align site, email, and content so everything works together

Process: Refine over time with ongoing creative direction that fits your team.

Campaigns & Lifecycle

Who you’ll be partnering with

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I’m Maura, a fractional creative marketing and strategic partner with a background in Fortune 500 marketing and over a decade of experience co-owning a wellness studio and therapeutic private practice, working closely with clients through seasons of change.

My work blends creative direction, website/marketing strategy, and human experience. I’m here to listen for the through-line of your work, hold the moving pieces with you, and design a structure your business can grow inside of—online and over time. I also partner as a fractional business coach and strategist inside existing programs, supporting founders and clinicians as they build or refine service-based practices.

Read more about my path →

Frequently Asked Questions

  • With an agency, you’re often buying a specific project or set of deliverables. In this partnership, you’re working directly with a senior creative and business strategist who plugs into your brand, website, marketing ecosystem, and key decisions over time.

    Rather than handing things off and hoping they fit, we think together about what to prioritize, what to pause, and how everything works as one coherent story.

  • Both. My work blends creative direction, website/marketing strategy, and hands-on support. Sometimes that looks like shaping strategy and overseeing your team or collaborators; other times it means partnering with you on website builds (like my three-week sites), content, or key assets so the strategy actually turns into something tangible.

    We’ll decide together what level of implementation makes the most sense for your season of business.

  • Not necessarily. Some clients come in with a full team; others are solo founders who are ready for strategic support before they make their next hires.

    What matters most is that you have an established body of work and are ready to make decisions about your brand, website, and business direction. From there, we can determine what’s realistic for you to execute and where you may eventually want extra hands.

  • Most fractional partnerships last 3–12 months, depending on what you need.

    Common patterns:

    • 3–4 months to move through a rebrand, website, and priority campaigns

    • 6+ months when you want ongoing support as your brand and offers evolve

    We’ll start with an initial scope and cadence, then revisit as your business shifts. The goal is for the partnership to feel spacious, supportive, and sustainable—not open-ended or draining.

  • Yes. You can begin with strategic support, a defined project, or step straight into a fractional partnership—whatever matches the level of support you’re ready for.

    Many founders come in at a crossroads, wanting a calm, strategic sounding board to think through offers, opportunities, and direction before committing to a rebrand, 3-week website, or longer-term engagement. Others start with a focused project—like a website, key pages, or a campaign—and then extend into fractional support once they’ve experienced how it feels to have someone holding the whole picture with them.

    Either way, my role is the same: to bring thoughtful coaching and clear strategic direction to your brand, website, marketing ecosystem, and business decisions so you’re not carrying it all on your own.

Ready to stop holding the big picture alone?