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 #468 of 19,190 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 30 days at a 0.6% average engagement rate.
- 8.5K followers
- 32 posts / 30d
- 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
- Consistent Creator — 23 posts in 30d · top 5%
- Top 5% in Consumer Goods — Ranked #6 of 185 creators
- Top 10% in United States — Ranked #339 of 5940 creators
- Big Audience — 8,482 followers · top 25%
Recent posts
Can I share a pet peeve? It’s this sentence: "We've already tried that." Did you? Or did you try one version... With a different team... Under different constraints... Two years ago? That sentence is how good ideas deflate long after the conditions that made them fail have disappeared. Organizations don't just accumulate knowledge. They accumulate memories. Those are NOT the same thing. In her memoir on friendship “BFF,” Christie Tate tells a story about a law school classroom exercise where every student watched the exact same interaction: An administrator knocked on the door,
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David Ogilvy believed every big idea had to pass five tests. I'm not convinced all five survived 2026. The legendary adman had a five-question test for Big Ideas: 1. Did it make you gasp when you first saw it? 2. Do you wish you had thought of it yourself? 3. Is it unique? 4. Does it fit the strategy to perfection? 5. Could it be used for 30 years? He wrote that in 1983. I keep going back and forth on whether it still holds. The case for: Great creative hasn't changed. Attention is harder to earn than ever. An original idea that serves the strategy still wins. The case against: The m
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Every meeting on your calendar fits into 1 of 4 boxes. One of them is completely eating your week. 📊 Two by Tuesday 📊 Every Tuesday, one simple 2×2 that helps you rethink something about work. This week's axes: • Does a decision get made? • Do they actually need you there? Every meeting lands in one of four quadrants: 1️⃣ The Cockpit Decisions get made. You're one of the people making them. This is what meetings are for. Guard these blocks! 2️⃣ The Broadcast Decisions get made. But they'd get made without you. You're an audience member. So skip it if you can, and just ask for th
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