About · Nancy Carleton

I've started from scratch five times.

Portland, Dubai, Ho Chi Minh City, São Paulo, and now Copenhagen, where I live. In every one of those cities I showed up knowing approximately nobody and left with a network that still answers my texts. That's not a metaphor. It's just what happened, and it's the one credential no agency can sell you.

Why this exists

I started The Brand Collective because I kept meeting brilliant companies that nobody had heard of. The product was good. The timing was right. Nobody had given people a reason to care, and the good news is that's the fixable part.

I'm the person you call when you need someone who can see the whole board and also move the pieces.

I've spent twenty years in brand, PR, and media, worked with more than 350 businesses on three continents, and run PR on all seven. (Yes, including Antarctica.) I've also run a marathon on all seven continents. Antarctica took four failed attempts; the fifth was our honeymoon. None of it is theory. Some of it is still out there doing its job fourteen years later, which is the part I'm proudest of.

The receipts, since you asked

Twenty years, a lot of rooms, and results with names on them.

01I ran ad operations at NBC.
02I led press at COP24.
03I helped a healthtech company scale into thirteen countries.
04I run marketing for three pharma engineering brands.
05I've worked with 350+ businesses on three continents.
06I've built community from zero in five cities.
Where I've been the new kid

One hometown and four fresh starts.

PortlandOregon · The original room
DubaiUAE · Ask me about the 40-day layover
Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam · From zero
São PauloBrazil · Built again
CopenhagenDenmark · Home now

You get the senior person, not a junior version of her. Whoever you meet on the first chat is the person doing the work, start to finish.

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