Nate Schlimme
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Brand Marketing · Strategy · Consulting · Los Angeles
Brands people talk about.

14+ years on Nike, Jordan, Beats by Dre, Amazon Music, HBO, Disney, Meta, and Google. Product launches, global campaigns, brand strategy at the highest level.

I work with founders and growth-stage teams building culture-defining brands who are ready for senior marketing leadership. Not advice. Execution.

The workspeaks foritself.

Global campaigns. Category-defining launches. Brands that moved culture. I spent 14+ years in rooms where the stakes were real and the bar was high. Now I bring that standard to everything I touch.

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Services
Leadership
Fractional CMO
Embedded marketing leadership. Strategy, execution, team management. I operate inside your company, not outside it. For brands that need a senior marketer now, not six months from now.
8 to 10 Weeks
Brand Build
Positioning, messaging, campaign architecture. 8 to 10 weeks of focused work that ends with a brand platform you can actually run with. Not a PDF. A plan.
3 Sessions
Strategy Sessions
Three 90-minute sessions. Your actual problems, real decisions, clear next steps each time. This is working time, not advice from the sideline.
Speaking
Speaking
Keynotes, panels, podcasts. Brand strategy, AI in marketing, building in public. Real stories from real rooms, not the same old playbook.
Free · Open to Students
Student AdvisoryFree
Breaking into marketing or brand strategy? 20 minutes. No agenda. I do this because someone did it for me.
Fractional CMO
Leadership Engagement

Embedded marketing leadership. Strategy, execution, team management. I operate inside your company, not outside it. For brands that need a senior marketer now, not six months from now.

Brand Build
8 to 10 Weeks

Positioning, messaging, and campaign architecture for brands at an inflection point. Launch, pivot, or major push. Ends with a platform you can actually execute against.

Strategy Sessions
3 Sessions

Three 90-minute working sessions. We dig into your actual brand challenges, pressure-test your positioning, and map out real moves. Not a sounding board. A working partner for the decisions that matter.

Speaking
Keynotes · Panels · Podcasts

Brand strategy, AI in marketing, building in public. Available for keynotes, panels, and podcasts. 14+ years on Nike, Amazon Music, Beats, Jordan, Ledger.

Topics of Interest
Student Advisory Free
20 Minutes

Trying to break into marketing, brand strategy, or the creative industry? 20 minutes, no agenda, completely free. The kind of conversation I wish someone had with me when I was figuring it out.

Work Together
General Inquiry

Not sure which service fits? No problem. Tell me a bit about what you're working on and I'll point you in the right direction.

Digital Products
Guides that work with you, not just for you.
Each one is designed to plug into your AI. Claude, ChatGPT, whatever you use. Upload it and you've got a thinking partner that knows the framework, asks the right questions, and builds work specific to your situation. Not generic advice. Real playbooks from real experience.
↳ Setup prompt that turns your AI into a co-author ↳ Built-in prompts at every step. copy, paste, go ↳ AI interviews you first, so output is yours. not generic
AI-Guided Stack
The AI Stack
The tools, the setup, the workflow
My exact AI workflow as a CMO. tools, prompts, and systems. Upload it to your LLM and start using it the same day. Built for marketers who want to move faster without guessing.
AI-Guided Track
Fit Exec
The AI-assisted executive health system
Training, nutrition, and the macro formula. personalized to your body by AI. Upload it, enter your stats, and get your exact numbers. No guessing, no personal trainer required.
AI-Guided Track
The CMO Track
Your AI-guided path to marketing leadership
14+ years in. The exact path from entry-level to CMO. what to do, what to skip, and how to position yourself at every stage. Upload it, tell your AI where you are, get a roadmap built around you.
AI-Guided Blueprint
Personal Brand Blueprint
Build your name and content engine with AI
How to build a personal brand from scratch. identity, newsletter, content systems, building in public. Feed it to your AI and build alongside it, prompt by prompt.
AI-Guided Blueprint
Brand Blueprint
Build a brand from the ground up with AI
The brand strategy framework behind Nike, Beats, Jordan, and Amazon Music. distilled into a playbook. Upload it and build your brand positioning session by session.
AI-Guided Playbook
The CMO Playbook
The AI-powered CMO reference
How to operate as a CMO without a CMO's budget. Strategy, team building, agency management, campaign architecture. Built from real time in the seat. Your AI co-pilot for the hardest job in marketing.
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Nate Schlimme
"The best brands don't shout. They make you lean in."
Nate Schlimme
Big Steppers Walk
It's not all business.
28 Miles.
Rose Bowl to
the Pier.

Once a year, I walk across Los Angeles. Pasadena to Santa Monica. 28 miles on foot. No car. No shortcuts. Just the walking, conversation, and the best city in the world.

Some of the best conversations I've had didn't happen in a conference room. They happened in motion.

PASADENA 0.0 mi 1 HIGHLAND PARK 4.5 mi 2 SILVER LAKE 9.0 mi 3 HOLLYWOOD 13.5 mi 4 WEST HOLLYWOOD 18.0 mi 5 BEVERLY HILLS 22.5 mi SANTA MONICA 28.0 mi BIG STEPPERS WALK · 28 MILES · LOS ANGELES
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