MARKETING STRATEGY FOR SYSTEMS CHANGETurn innovation into commercial momentum
Oxford Comma Strategy helps climate tech, health tech, and social ventures scale in regulated markets.
You have the evidence; let’s make your case.
Institutions don't buy innovation. They invest in it. For 20 years, I've built the arguments that move health insurers, employers, government agencies, and funders to act, from a $6 million Gates Foundation campaign introducing digital financial services in emerging markets to a full go-to-market reset for a health benefits navigation company.
Now I partner with founders to align their investor narrative and go-to-market strategy, so the institutions they depend on invest in keeping people and communities healthy, resilient, and secure.
Services
Four paths to partnership, one great experience: clarity, precision, results.
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Embedded CMO
Senior marketing leadership inside your team, without the full-time hire. Positioning, go-to-market, and the program that carries both.
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Project-Based Sprints
Brand narrative, go-to-market strategy, diagnostic audits, and competitive intelligence. Defined scope, specific outcome.
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Training & Workshops
Media training and facilitated sessions that align your team around a value proposition that holds up.
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Advising
Confidential 1:1 partnership for marketing leaders and founders.
The innovation is rarely the problem.
In regulated markets, adopting a new technology is almost always riskier than doing nothing. And, corporations, health systems, utilities, industrial operators, and public agencies evaluate innovations through complex internal committees long before anyone ever contacts you.
Investors aren't just looking for technical proof; they want evidence of commercial momentum. When sales cycles stall inside those institutional committees, it looks like a tech problem when it’s actually how you’re making your case.
Arguments designed to move our world forward.
A $6M Gates Foundation campaign moving global regulators on financial inclusion. A digital care navigation startup’s full go-to-market reset through an $80M raise. A 60-year-old public policy school rebranded. A physician-led national medical group making the case for independent practice.
Systems change is hard; the right arguments matter.
In their words.
How I work
Every engagement starts with the same question: what's standing between you and the growth the evidence says you've earned? Sometimes the answer is a senior voice at the leadership table. Sometimes it's embedded leadership, inside your team. Sometimes it's a single focused project that removes a specific bottleneck.
We find the format that fits the problem — not the other way around.
How I use AI
AI raised the floor on marketing production — I treat that as a launchpad. I build AI-enabled programs for lean teams, and my own practice is the demonstration: machines handle research synthesis, first drafts, and repurposing.
The argument, every verified claim, and anything staked on conviction stay in human hands. For buyers who run on evidence, that's not a philosophy. It's quality control.