Accelerate Your Business

Brand marketing, especially when it connects brands, businesses and organizations to their female audiences, is at the heart of our consulting work. Kelley is selective about the KS client roster. She personally leads and works on each client engagement and then taps a team of seasoned agency veterans and partner resources, specially selected for each assignment.

Our offerings solve problems and accelerate your business:

• NEW! InnovateHer Lab: A live, fast-paced, online, discovery and solutions-based, facilitated forum that focuses on solving YOUR innovation challenge by engaging in pitch screenings, a la Shark Tank, with high-potential start-ups.
• NEW! KS On Demand: consulting when you need it.
• SPARKeting^TM Go-to-Market:  big brands can learn a great deal from start-ups about employing a challenger brand marketing approach. SPARKeting leverages small sparks to drive big results via Shared, Paid, earned Attention, Resident assets and Key influencers. 
• ^{MembHERshipTM}: for most professional trade associations, membership is stagnant or declining. With more women now graduating with advanced degrees, boosting female membership can accelerate growth. MembHERship is a proprietary approach that helps trade associations engage female members and prospective members, influencers and innovative partnerships.   
• KSConnect Brand Partnerships:  82 percent of US companies say it's important to work with innovative partners, like start-ups. But where do you start?KS Connect enables you to assess and map connections to a robust network of hot influencers, cutting-edge agencies, iconic brands and emerging start-ups in a fast, four-step process - Purpose, Pipeline, Screen, Partner.
• StratComm Plan:  need a strategic counselor? Kelley's broad experience in the food, CPG, wellness, appliance, retail, healthcare and technology categories and translates to creative ideas for her clients. StratComm Plan includes: competitive audit, customer conversation, message mapping, SPARKeting plan, vendor recommendations, 2 days on-site and advisor services. 
• Master Your Brand:  define the why, who and what of your brand on the road to creating a master brand map that includes positioning, mission, narrative, brand values and key messages. 
• InfluencHER: We offer expert counseling on marketing-to-women & moms for your in-house or agency team or for a new business pitch.
• KS-in-Residence: Let us help you fill a temporary vacancy with an interim marketing executive or CMO-in-residence.

Helping bring dreams to life in partnership with smart, motivated, creative women is a passion of Kelley's. That's why she is a co-founding member of the Next Act Fund, whose mission is to invest in early-stage, women-owned/led companies, to help women grow their personal wealth. The net result positively impacts not only the women involved, but the region and the nation as well. Kelley also serves as co-chair of the Investment Committee, in charge of screening, as well as a due diligence lead.

Connect with us if you:

• Are a female founder of an early-stage company seeking angel capital and already have a lead investor
• Would like to attend a Next Act Fund screening meeting as a participant or an observer
• Are an entrepreneur or an accredited investor who is curious about angel investing
• Need a media resource to discuss female-focused angel investing

Projects: usually ranging from a few weeks to a few months, KS Consulting & Capital can step in to help your company or organization with a project when your internal team is stretched too thin or lacks specific expertise. Projects typically require Kelley Skoloda, plus KS Consulting team members and are are budgeted according to agreed upon scope and deadlines.

A Day of Expertise: Hire us for a day to help with strategic counsel, new business pitches, speaking engagements and super short-term work that requires a day, or a couple of days of time (8 hours of work and travel included in day rate).

Input for a Hour (or Two): need a quick infusion of brainpower? These assignments only require a few hours to help with brainstorming, a quick point of view, an expert interview or input on connections within Kelley's network.

Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards: for public and private companies.

Start-Up/Non-Profit: Kelley will give special consideration on hourly and day rates for start-ups and non-profits when she is engaged as an advisor.

Please contact Kelley for rates and project estimates.