Community Strategies to

Launch and Grow

your Startup.

Companies I’ve worked with

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I help companies build communities to inform product and drive growth from $0 to $50M.

As a consultant or fractional leader, I will guide and support you and your team through a well-tested creative process to plan, implement, and optimize a community strategy to drive the business results that matter most to you.

Together, we’ll…

  1. Do initial audit, visioning, and goal-setting.

  2. Design a community strategy, implement it, observe and understand the impact.

  3. Integrate insights to refine the strategy, optimize results, and iterate, ensuring meaningful and measurable outcomes.

You’ll get:

  1. A working community strategy aligned to your business goals a

  2. A dashboard to monitor and report metrics to leaders and stakeholders.

  3. A crash course in the principles of community-building for businesses.

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Inform Product Development

  1. Build a robust, dependable product feedback loop with your community members.

  2. Collect input and integrate insights to deliver what your customers want/need.

  3. Find product-market-fit, gain traction, and increase customer happiness.

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Drive Growth

  1. Facilitate connection, collaboration, contribution, and participation that benefits your company and community.

  2. Generate qualified leads for sales and partnerships.

  3. Convert awareness to new accounts. Grow existing accounts.

“Tim's personable and approachable nature, coupled with his consistent delivery of actionable insights, has made him an essential part of our journey.”

Alan • Founder @ FlexSpeak

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As a consultant

I guide and support your team.

Consulting is for companies that have the people to implement a strategy but lack the expertise to make a plan that aligns with business goals.

How it works:

I consult with individuals and teams, guiding them through the process of designing and implementing community strategies with meaningful, measurable business impact.

  • I work with ~1-5 people from your team; we meet regularly (e.g., weekly).

  • We clearly define your situation, business goals, and KPIs.

  • We set up mechanisms to capture quantitative and qualitative signals to understand the impact of our work.

  • We devise a comprehensive strategy with specific tactics to carry it out.

  • You implement the plan and collect feedback/insights to inform revisions and iterations.

Compared to fractional leadership, consulting is more hands-off

As a fractional leader

I lead your team.

Fractional leadership is for companies that need a part-time/as-needed team member who can lead people, processes, projects, programs, and do hands-on work.

How it works:

I’m “embedded” in your team, leading and managing your Community team, programs, and projects, and representing the work I oversee in internal and community-facing communications.

  • I effectively operate as a member of your team.

  • I’m available to your team for X hours per week during our collaboration period (based on our agreement; minimum 3 months).

  • I join internal meetings and Slack channels (as appropriate) and act as a part-time employee.

  • As a team, we audit community needs and opportunities, devise a strategy to align with goals, implement the strategy, measure the impact, and iterate.

Compared to consulting, fractional leadership is more hands-on

Who I work with

Startups

  • Early- and growth-stage startups scaling from $0 to $50M in revenue.

  • AI-Native

  • Frontier tech

  • Climate Tech

Purpose-driven

  • AI for good

  • Climate tech, sustainability

  • Social & environmental justice

  • Developer-focused companies

  • Brands I respect and appreciate

Organizations

  • For-profit

  • Public Benefit

  • Non-profit

People

  • Founders, executives, leaders, ICs

  • BIPOC, LGBTQ, and women-led companies

  • Anyone I can vibe with

FAQ

  • Community strategies can support virtually any area of the business - Product, Marketing, GTM, Support, People, Engineering, etc.

    At its core, community is all about relationships - real, meaningful, symbiotic relationships.

    So, community strategies focus on establishing and growing businesses through tactics that cultivate mutual benefit for the company and the people who gravitate around it - employees, customers, prospects, partners, investors, friends and family, and more.

Ready to explore how community strategies can help you launch or grow your climate startup?