Allison Stadd — CMO @ Ollie | 🥁 Former Jazz Drummer | Follow me for ideas on creative leadership, taste & better work for the bored & burnt out
CMO @ Ollie | 🥁 Former Jazz Drummer | Follow me for ideas on creative leadership, taste & better work for the bored & burnt out
Allison Stadd ranks #424 of 18,566 LinkedIn creators in Consumer Goods, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 8.5K followers and published 32 posts in the last 60 days at a 0.6% average engagement rate.
- 8.5K followers
- 32 posts / 60d
- 0.6% avg engagement
- 300 follower growth / 30d
The roast
Allison spent fifteen years scaling Shake Shack and Sweetgreen just to realize her true calling is charging people for 1-1 office hours so she can teach them how to sage away their Sunday Scaries. She’s not a marketer, she’s a LinkedIn support group for people who peaked in English class.
About Allison
I never meant to be a marketer. I studied English, creative writing, and art history. I played jazz drums. I thought I’d write books or edit magazines. What I didn’t see coming was that marketing would become the place where all of that converged. Creativity, systems thinking, human behavior, and taste, all in one discipline. Over the past 15+ years, I’ve helped scale, evolve, and exit consumer-obsessed brands across industries ranging from fast food to retail tech. I’ve held senior marketing leadership roles at three companies that IPOed (Shake Shack, Sweetgreen, BARK), as well as at Fortune 500 power players like Anheuser-Busch InBev and Target. Along the way, I created The Creativity of Work: a weekly newsletter featuring fresh-squeezed takes on what’s broken about work, and how we un-blah it. I'll show you how to: sage away the Sunday Scaries, see your work through a fresh lens, and build a career that feels like you. Come jam with me → https://allisonstadd.substack.com/ 🥁 Two more ways to work together: 1️⃣ Book a fun, fresh-eyed 1-1 Office Hours session with me to dig into brand & marketing or leadership & career challenges → https://allisonstadd.as.me/ 2️⃣ I also work with founders and senior marketing leads from Series A through exit. Growth-stage consumer brands hire me as an advisor when they need brand clarity and the marketing engine to scale it → https://allisonstadd.as.me/
Highlights
- Top 5% in Consumer Goods — Ranked #3 of 174 creators
- Top 5% Creator — 32 posts in 30 days
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #170 of 5851 creators
- Top 25% Audience — 8,482 followers
Recent posts
Our work vocabulary is weirdly violent. I counted 12 phrases I hear all the time: 🥊 Kill two birds with one stone 🥊 Punch above our weight 🥊 Not a hill I'll die on 🥊 Beat a dead horse 🥊 Kill time 🥊 War room 🥊 Hand-to-hand combat 🥊 Silver bullet 🥊 Divide and conquer 🥊 Under the gun 🥊 Take a shot 🥊 Blow up We inherit language without realizing it. A boss uses a phrase. Then a colleague picks it up. Then we carry it into our next job. Eventually, nobody notices where these things came from or what their literal meaning is. And there isn’t any actual harm meant. But I’m a firm
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I built my early career around GSD. Then GSD stopped working. “Get Sh*t Done” used to be the phrase that defined how I worked. 12-hour days. 13-hour days. 14-hour days. Weekends spent at the office “catching up.” My team got me a trophy for “Most Likely to Be Working Right Now.” For a long time, I wore that pace like a badge of honor. Then life changed. COVID happened, I got older, I became a parent. And somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting ambition to feel like a grenade with the pin pulled. I’m still driven, don’t get me wrong. I still crave moving fast, building things, and
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The first story your brain tells you is not a verdict. Your boss sends, “Can we talk?” Your brain: I’m in trouble. A team member seems off. Your brain: I did something wrong. A project slips. Your brain: Everyone thinks I can’t handle this. Those thoughts can feel a lot like facts. Most of the time, they're just your brain trying to keep you safe. Psychologist Roxana-Cristina Petrus calls the pause between a thought and your reaction “metacognition”: thinking about how you’re thinking. Her point is pretty simple. Our brains were built to spot danger fast and check the facts later. S
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Last updated 2026-08-01