I Help Product Brands Grow With Partnerships, Contra & AI
Keynote speaker, trainer and partnership architect for product-based businesses, franchises and organisations who want ideas that are both creative and commercial.
If your world includes products on shelves, in showrooms, in salons or on screens – you’re my people.
I help marketing and leadership teams use what they already have – products, partners, content, data and a dash of AI – to grow their reach, lift their credibility and create work they’re genuinely proud of.
Creative marketing that sells more product.
Brand Partnerships, Contra Campaigns and AI shortcuts for product brands ready to grow their reach, credibility and sales.
Trusted by Brands including:
Conferences & Events
years with Global Brands
Five Star Reviews (GOOGLE)
Best Selling Author,
Multi Award Winning Book
ABLE 2022 Book of the Year Award Winner
Booktopia Best Seller - Top 10 in Marketing and Top 10 in Small Business Books.
Amazon Best Seller - #1 in Small Business, #1 in Brand Management, #2 in Marketing
Literary Giants - Gold Medal Winner 2022
Book Excellence - Marketing Award winner 2023
Readers Favourite - Voted 5/5
SWAP! Is a guide for businesses to create brand-to-brand collaborations to gain a new audience, increase their industry credibility and improve their profitability - leveraging their assets and expertise instead of cash.
Author of SWAP! Marketing Without Money – 2022 Book of the Year, multiple gold medals and a bestseller in business and marketing
Other People’s Customers
"82% of shoppers decide what to buy at the shelf."
If you aren’t winning that micro-moment, your seven-figure 'brand awareness’ campaign is funding your competitors growth. This will change that.
How We Can Work Together
I speak at conferences, kick-offs and events about partnerships, contra and AI for product-based brands and franchises.
Done-with-you partnership strategy and Contra workshops for brands that are ready to move beyond random collabs and build a real partnership.
Practical AI training for marketing, sales and customer service teams in product-based businesses – no jargon, no coding, just real workflows.
Books, toolkits, webinars and live events – including SWAP! Marketing Without Money and city-based workshops for small businesses.
About Therese
I’m a serial entrepreneur and marketer who’s worked on both sides of the fence: running my own product manufacturing business and leading marketing teams for big brands. I understand the pressure to grow, the realities of margins and logistics, and the joy of seeing a product you love out in the world.
I started out creating my own product manufacturing business – designing strollers and nursery goods for brands like Jeep, Sesame Street and United Colors of Benetton.
We scaled to $10 million across five countries, then I exited and turned my attention to helping other product brands do the same: grow through smart partnerships instead of just bigger ad spend.
I also have a not-so-secret love: building beautiful homes. I’m that person walking down the street staring at cladding profiles, studying facades and hoarding fabric swatches and paint chips. I’ve built homes that have appeared in magazines, TV commercials and have won HIA awards. When I say I love it, it’s not a hobby – it’s part of how I think about design, lifestyle and the products that live in those spaces.
Over the years I’ve placed products into shows like The Block, Selling Houses Australia, Grand Designs, The Living Room, and even sourced products to help build the Big Brother house.
What I love most now is solving problems for product brands by finding the WHO – the partners, platforms and people who, together, can create an irresistible solution for their shared customer and grow side by side.
That’s why I wrote SWAP! Marketing Without Money – it’s an invitation to work together, to trade what you have, and to create something better than you could alone. And honestly? It’s way more fun.
What People Say
Reviews 5.0 ★★★★★
“One of the most practical, generous sessions we’ve had. Our team left with ideas they could use straight away.”
“Therese connects the dots between product, partnerships and people in a way that just makes sense.”
Brand Matchmaker
Product partnerships, contra and tools for product-based brands.
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Speaker • Trainer • Partnership Architect • Author
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Based in Australia. Available to work with brands, events and teams globally.