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About Mary Lincoln
In 2018, she led the repositioning of a legacy CPG brand that had lost 12% market share over five years, by shifting from demographic targeting to behavioral micro-segmentation grounded in longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork across 17 Rust Belt towns. That campaign didn’t just reverse decline; it grew category volume by 9% in a shrinking market, proving that deep cultural listening, not algorithmic guesswork, drives durable brand equity. Her approach treats consumer insight as archaeology: digging past survey responses to uncover unarticulated rituals, tensions, and symbolic meanings embedded in how people actually live, shop, and talk about value. She’s skeptical of 'viral' as a KPI and refuses to run ads without first mapping the emotional labor behind a purchase decision. Based in Chicago and advising Fortune 500s and mission-driven startups alike, she insists that brand strategy is ethics in motion, where every tagline, color choice, and channel decision either reinforces or disrupts systemic inequities in economic participation.
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- “How did your Rust Belt ethnography change how you define 'brand trust'?”
- “What's one outdated advertising assumption you've dismantled this year?”
- “How do you measure whether a brand's voice actually reflects its audience's lived reality?”
- “What does 'equitable positioning' mean in practice—not theory?”