Shannon is an incredible strategist who is able to fully wrap her arms around a business, drive strategy from a high-level perspective, and zoom into tactics that create value & ROI. The trifecta. We've worked with Shannon across several clients and she always brings a positive energy that makes work together enjoyable. Anyone would be lucky to have her as an advisor and fractional CMO!

Whenever I partner on a project with Shannon and SSC Consulting, I know things are going to proceed smoothly. Shannon has this innate ability to match whatever energy a given project needs. Corporate boardroom one day, startup garage the next. Whether you're a founder talking a full brand overhaul or a new head of marketing needs advice, Shannon can help make complex work look simple and (more importantly) the simple work stays simple.

Shannon has been the fractional CMO at Blue Onion for the past year. I've had the absolute pleasure working with her here in my role as the head of demand marketing (fun fact: she recruited me into this role, so don't lose sight of her recruiting skills, too). Shannon and I met while working at OpenView VC in 2021 and I've learned an immeasurable amount from her in the past 4 years. She can step in as player-coach, help navigate challenges at the exec level, and mentor and advise on career growth and team development. During her time advising Blue Onion, she has focused on organizing and aligning the exec leadership team beyond just marketing, but around our entire go-to-market strategy. She's personally helped coach me to be more impactful with our CEO, our board members, and the team overall. She's enabled my growth personally for many years, but I'm grateful she's supported me and our team across many milestones the past year–from pre-series A, through a $10M fundraise, and most recently a GTM strategy re-alignment. She is not afraid of the tough conversations, the hard work, and she's focused on impact for both herself and the teams she supports. I'd hire Shannon again and again to lead marketing, to advise on strategy, to step in and build a marketing function from scratch, and to grow the people she invests in.

Working with Shannon and SSC Consulting helped our navigate key strategic challenges and bring much needed clarity to areas we’d been struggling to prioritize. Shannon's fractional marketing leadership provided a fresh perspective and ensured our efforts were better aligned with our broader business goals. As a result, we saw a noticeable improvement in how we approached planning and execution, and our team gained new confidence in our direction. We’d absolutely recommend SSC Consulting to other founders looking to strengthen their marketing foundation and elevate their overall strategy.

Shannon has been pivotal in designing and creating the PR related motions to get a seed series announcement out to the media, a revised and much-improved go-to-market messaging, and a new website design. She can steer strategic conversations with a high-touch approach, balancing what the founders´ inputs are and what is best for the project, while producing high-quality material and everything in between. While working with her, you can tell she is a quick learner; she has a great natural feeling for how to handle VC-backed projects and all that it entails. She is witty, energetic, and delivers on her promises. I have enjoyed greatly working with her.

When we started to work together we only had concepts of how to execute founder marketing, but within a few quick turns we had a process for creating newsletters, videos, and posts that we added into our future calendar. She is also fun as hell!

Shannon was an incredible partner for us. She stepped in at a time when we didn’t need a full-time CMO but did need senior marketing leadership. She quickly felt like part of the team, helped us put the right programs and foundations in place, and then supported us in building, recruiting, and developing a strong full-time marketing team. It was the perfect way to get deep expertise without committing to a full-time CMO hire.

We worked with SSC Consulting at a point where our brand, messaging, and website were clearly lagging behind the company we had become. We knew something was off, but it was hard to step back and fix it while running the business day to day. Their fractional marketing leadership made a real difference by jumping in, asking the uncomfortable questions, and helping us get much sharper about our positioning and story. Coming out of the process, our brand finally feels aligned, the messaging is clearer and more confident, and the website actually reflects what we do and why it matters. What stood out most was how straightforward and collaborative the work was, no fluff, no overcomplication, just thoughtful guidance and execution. I would absolutely recommend SSC Consulting to other founders who need senior marketing leadership and clarity without hiring a full-time team.

I've seen it first hand. SSC Consulting a founder "whisper" - Shannon knows the language of founder and she knows the language of GTM. Let her be the translator if you're having any friction. If you're ever lucky enough to get her time - jump on it. GTM and PMF is too often delayed in my experience.

Shannon is an incredible strategist who is able to fully wrap her arms around a business, drive strategy from a high-level perspective, and zoom into tactics that create value & ROI. The trifecta. We've worked with Shannon across several clients and she always brings a positive energy that makes work together enjoyable. Anyone would be lucky to have her as an advisor and fractional CMO!

Whenever I partner on a project with Shannon and SSC Consulting, I know things are going to proceed smoothly. Shannon has this innate ability to match whatever energy a given project needs. Corporate boardroom one day, startup garage the next. Whether you're a founder talking a full brand overhaul or a new head of marketing needs advice, Shannon can help make complex work look simple and (more importantly) the simple work stays simple.

Shannon has been the fractional CMO at Blue Onion for the past year. I've had the absolute pleasure working with her here in my role as the head of demand marketing (fun fact: she recruited me into this role, so don't lose sight of her recruiting skills, too). Shannon and I met while working at OpenView VC in 2021 and I've learned an immeasurable amount from her in the past 4 years. She can step in as player-coach, help navigate challenges at the exec level, and mentor and advise on career growth and team development. During her time advising Blue Onion, she has focused on organizing and aligning the exec leadership team beyond just marketing, but around our entire go-to-market strategy. She's personally helped coach me to be more impactful with our CEO, our board members, and the team overall. She's enabled my growth personally for many years, but I'm grateful she's supported me and our team across many milestones the past year–from pre-series A, through a $10M fundraise, and most recently a GTM strategy re-alignment. She is not afraid of the tough conversations, the hard work, and she's focused on impact for both herself and the teams she supports. I'd hire Shannon again and again to lead marketing, to advise on strategy, to step in and build a marketing function from scratch, and to grow the people she invests in.