Evan Patterson 💅🏻

Hire Me & Win In The Attention Economy💥 I Help Founders & Startups Grow Audiences 🔥 Ghostwriting • Personal Branding • Social Selling • Community Marketing • Content Strategy • B2B Influencers • Affiliate Programs

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I’m Evan Patterson.

Fractional CMO. Personal CMO.
LGBTQ+. AuDHD. Two cats who have main-character energy and paperwork opinions.
Metro Detroit-raised, Chicago-thriving, seeking a EU-husband for dual citizenship (kind of not joking...)

A small but vocal group of humans — plus my mother — call me the Joan Rivers of Marketing. I didn’t ask for that title, but I also didn’t give it back.

My work focuses on helping founders, CEOs, and operators stop sounding like they were assembled by committee. When people understand you quickly, everything gets easier: sales, hiring, partnerships, even that awkward moment when someone pretends they’ve heard of your company before.

My entire approach runs on feral specificity.
Egregiously unique. Audaciously effective.
Ideas with teeth. Narratives with posture. Writing that doesn’t need a spotlight to command attention.

I work in two lanes.

Evan Patterson Consulting
The Fractional CMO lane.

This is where companies finally get a marketing function that isn’t held together by vibes, hope, and a Google Doc last updated during the pandemic. I rebuild the structure, the sequencing, and the decisions that keep revenue steady instead of seasonal.

The second lane
The executive identity work.

Voice extraction. Narrative architecture. Brand presence that doesn’t wobble when the market does. There’s more coming in this lane; something I’m building quietly; and it’s shaping the way I help leaders show up with clarity and actual gravitational pull.

I build systems with staying power.
I build brands people remember without squinting.
I build marketing that earns attention because it deserves attention.

People who work well with me tend to appreciate speed, accuracy, and a sense of humor about the chaos they built before I arrived. People who want a polite museum tour of marketing usually exit early.

My goal is consistent: make you unmistakable.

Fractional Content & Community Marketing Leader

Ditch the gift cards, scrap the underutilized benefits package, and focus on the individuals in your organization instead.

Companies looking to improve performance and retention should care about helping people get further faster towards what matters most in their life. We make this easy with tools to create personalized incentives, meaningful recognition & self-defined benefits that help their people unlock "sacred funds" towards their personal life goals.

Employee Motivation Simplified.

Evan Patterson

Hi, I'm Ashleigh 👋

I'm not 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉... but I am 'The Other Sales Coach' 😉 

I'm on a mission to enable companies and sales professionals to achieve sustainable growth by emphasizing empathy and humanity through science.  

I bring over a decade of experience at Silicon Valley icons like Okta, FireEye, Mattermark to early-stage startups.  

I call myself "The Other Sales Coach" because I don't subscribe to any specific methodologies.  Instead, I adapt my coaching to the individual, and focus my consulting on the unique intersection of product, people, and industry.  My style works- or maybe it's just my spectacular wit and rigorous attention to detail- but almost 90% of my clients have extended or renewed their contracts after initial engagement. 

I allow my clients a "safe place" to get creative, be honest and GROW their sales skills.  Let's be honest, there are some things you can't tell the person who signs your paycheck.  I ensure you have a balanced combination of accountability, healthy-habit formation, personality-tailored feedback and unconditional support.  

I'm here to push you to your 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥, not just your quota. (This applies to founders/leaders and individual reps!

Also, be sure to check out "Across the Pond and Over the Rainbow"- ANOTHER Sales & Marketing live show that no one asked for yet everyone needed. We talk about life lessons we've gained along the way (some more painful than others), the unique experiences we share as friends separated by an entire f*cking ocean, sales and marketing tips, career advice so you don't mess sh!t up, and of course...plenty of unhinged hilarity as Ashleigh and Evan navigate lives as the professional weirdos that they are.

👋Ashleigh Early

𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘆-𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗖𝗘. Once again, I am ashamed and horrified at the abuses happening the United States. 



And if you think stuff like this doesn't belong on LinkedIn....you're wrong.


Work is political.

Silence is violence.


I have INCREDIBLE privilege. I'm white, cisgender, straight, married, and from a solid middle-class upbringing. I also had the ability to choose to leave the United States to live in a place that better matches my values and enables me to be the best version of myself.

I believe in free speech (not freedom from consequences), due process and checks and balances in the government.

All of those are being erroded daily.



I must acknowledge this on LinkedIn, and in my daily life, or I am complicit in the ongoing horror show that is living in the United States for millions of people every day.



I must acknowledge this because too many people can't. They'd risk their livelihoods, safety or health.


Thank you to those on the front lines.
Thank you to those also speaking out when you can.
Thank you to those sharing the resources and information to those who need it most.



Now I'm gonna try to get some work done...

Ashleigh Early

Sales Leader, Cheerleader and Champion | Helping Sales teams connect with their clients utilizing empathy and science #LinkedinTopVoices in Sales

I took two FULL weeks off for the first time since 2015 over the holidays. Here's what I learned...



I 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 do this a couple times a year. Mental health. Physical health. Community.


Oh and this has nothing to do with sales, work, or anything else.


Just sharing that I'm an idiot and "American" corporate hustle culture is absolute toxic bs.

Full transparency...I forgot to take my ADHD meds for the first time in a while today. HOW ON EARTH DID I LIVE LIKE THIS FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS?!

#ThrowbackWednesday ? Whatever. Found this video cleaning out google storage.  Enjoy this very long rambling video from like...4 years ago.

I don't know who needs to hear this today - but it's early January. It's okay if you don't have content strategy locked. Just post it. Figure it out later. But take the first step and let it be messy.

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