Nate Schlimme — CMO & Brand Strategist

About

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Portrait. direct camera, editorial. LA architectural environment. Half-body. Warm afternoon light.

I help brands cut through the noise and become the ones people remember.

14+ years marketing for Nike, Jordan, Beats by Dre, Amazon Music, HBO, Disney, Meta, and Google. From concept to execution. Brand experience, global campaigns, product launches, live events, social, PR moments, crypto, CPG, digital products, hardware, footwear, apparel. The world kept evolving and I evolved with it, touching every side of the business along the way.

Now I bring everything I learned to founders, startups, and growth-stage teams who are building something worth remembering.

Clients & Partners

Brand Work

The Work

Every brand
taught me
something.

Global campaigns. Category-defining launches. Brands that moved culture, not just product. I took notes the whole way, and now I teach what I learned so others don't have to figure it out alone.

See the Work Work Together →

Services

Leadership →

Fractional CMO

Senior marketing leadership without the full-time hire. Strategy, execution, team management. A real operator in the room, not a consultant on a call. Built for growth-stage brands ready to move.

8 to 10 Weeks →

Brand Sprint

8 to 10 weeks to get your positioning, messaging, and campaign architecture locked. You walk away with a brand platform you can actually execute against. Not a deck that collects dust.

4 Sessions →

Advisory Calls

Four 60-minute sessions. No retainer, no fluff. Honest perspective from someone who's been in the seat. Good place to start if you're not sure what you need yet.

Speaking →

Speaking

Keynotes, panels, podcasts. Brand strategy, AI in marketing, building in public. Real stories from real rooms, not frameworks from a textbook.

Free · Open to Students

Student AdvisoryFree

Trying to break into marketing or brand strategy? 20 minutes, no agenda, completely free. The kind of conversation I wish someone had with me when I was figuring it out.

Fractional CMO

Leadership Engagement

Senior marketing leadership embedded in your team. Strategy, execution, team management. Someone who's done this before, so you don't have to figure it out from scratch. Built for growth-stage brands ready to move.

Brand Sprint

8 to 10 Weeks

Positioning, messaging, and campaign architecture for brands at an inflection point. Launch, pivot, or major push. Ends with a platform you can actually execute against.

Advisory Calls

4 Sessions

Four 60-minute sessions. Senior outside perspective for founders, CMOs, and marketers who need real answers without the retainer. Good place to start.

Speaking

Keynotes · Panels · Podcasts

Brand strategy, AI in marketing, building in public. Available for keynotes, panels, and podcasts. Thirteen years on Nike, Amazon Music, Beats, Jordan, Ledger.

Student Advisory Free

20 Minutes

Trying to break into marketing, brand strategy, or the creative industry? 20 minutes, no agenda, completely free. The kind of conversation I wish someone had with me when I was figuring it out.

Work Together

General Inquiry

Not sure which service fits? No problem. Tell me a bit about what you're working on and I'll point you in the right direction.

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Digital Products

Guides that work with you, not just for you.

Each one is designed to plug into your AI. Claude, Gemini, whatever you use. Upload it and you've got a thinking partner that knows the framework, asks the right questions, and builds work specific to your situation. Not generic advice. Real playbooks from real experience.

↳ Setup prompt that turns your AI into a co-author ↳ Built-in prompts at every step. copy, paste, go ↳ AI interviews you first, so output is yours. not generic

AI-Guided Stack

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The AI Stack

The tools, the setup, the workflow

My exact AI workflow as a CMO. tools, prompts, and systems. Upload it to your LLM and start using it the same day. Built for marketers who want to move faster without guessing.

AI-Guided Track

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Fit Exec

The AI-assisted executive health system

Training, nutrition, and the macro formula. personalized to your body by AI. Upload it, enter your stats, and get your exact numbers. No guessing, no personal trainer required.

AI-Guided Track

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The CMO Track

Your AI-guided path to marketing leadership

13 years in. The exact path from entry-level to CMO. what to do, what to skip, and how to position yourself at every stage. Upload it, tell your AI where you are, get a roadmap built around you.

AI-Guided Blueprint

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Personal Brand Blueprint

Build your name and content engine with AI

How to build a personal brand from scratch. identity, newsletter, content systems, building in public. Feed it to your AI and build alongside it, prompt by prompt.

AI-Guided Blueprint

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Brand Blueprint

Build a brand from the ground up with AI

The brand strategy framework behind Nike, Beats, Jordan, and Amazon Music. distilled into a playbook. Upload it and build your brand positioning session by session.

AI-Guided Playbook

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The CMO Playbook

The AI-powered CMO reference

How to operate as a CMO without a CMO's budget. Strategy, team building, agency management, campaign architecture. Built from real time in the seat. Your AI co-pilot for the hardest job in marketing.

Connect

"The best brands don't shout. They make you lean in."

Nate Schlimme

Big Steppers Walk

It's not all business.

28 Miles.
Rose Bowl to
the Pier.

Once a year, I walk across Los Angeles. Pasadena to Santa Monica. 28 miles on foot. No car. No shortcuts. Just the walking, conversation, and the best city in the world.

Some of the best conversations I've had didn't happen in a conference room. They happened in motion.