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I need strategic help with our client or business relationships.
When important relationships have become everyone’s responsibility and no one’s strategy.
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Strategic relationship building expert · Keynote speaker
Making brands
feel less
interchangeable.
I help companies build relationship strategy
that makes their brand easier to choose and
harder to replace.
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How to work with me
How can I help?
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I want Kade to speak to our audience.
For audiences that have heard enough about networking, personalization, and staying top of mind.
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I want to rethink our business gifting.
When business gifting needs to accomplish more than “show appreciation.”
Gift Intelligence™ ↗Most businesses are trying to stay top of mind when they should be trying to matter.
Relationship strategy
How I think about things.
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Most brands spend more money trying to be noticed than on giving people a reason to care.
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Not everyone has the same capacity to influence the outcome you're trying to create.
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There's a lot of money sitting in relationships companies stopped paying attention to.
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A long relationship isn't necessarily a strong relationship. Sometimes it's just an old one.
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Customers don't experience your strategy. They experience what your strategy causes you to do.
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Most companies know who their biggest customers are. Far fewer know who their biggest advocates are.
Attention is not the same as connection.
“Kade clearly explains relationship strategy in a way that completely changes how you think. Even experienced professionals walk away with ideas they can implement immediately.”
Wealth Manager · Fortune 500 Client
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“Kade’s keynote was one of the most thought-provoking presentations I’ve heard in a long time. It left me energized and excited to act on it.”
Sales Coach · Author · Speaker
Marketing led me here.
I spent almost two decades inside corporate marketing organizations, ultimately leading global marketing initiatives at the enterprise level. Alongside that, I spent more than a decade building relationship gifting strategies for some of the world’s largest brands through the gifting company I founded.
That combination gave me a unique view into what strengthens business relationships and what doesn’t. I’ve seen it from both sides: as an internal leader responsible for growth, brand, and customer strategy, and as an outside partner helping companies put those priorities into practice. What I found is that the same principles that strengthen business relationships apply far beyond gifting, and most businesses overlook them entirely.
Today, I work with leadership teams to build more intentional relationship strategies around the people, moments, and decisions that influence loyalty, referrals, retention, and long-term value. I also speak to audiences about how a more strategic approach to relationship building can create a meaningful competitive advantage.
And when gifting does make sense as part of the strategy, that’s where Gift Intelligence™ comes in. My proprietary framework turns business gifting into a strategic marketing tool designed to drive measurable outcomes and influence what happens next in a relationship.
Work with Kade ↗My background
20
years of enterprise marketing leadership across global and growth-stage organizations.
$6B+
business line supported through enterprise-level marketing strategy.
9
countries of international marketing leadership experience.
Proprietary framework
Gift
Intelligence™
Gifting isn’t a required part of a relationship strategy. But when it does make sense, I use my methodology, Gift Intelligence, to connect gifting spend to a clear business outcome.
When it comes to gifting, most companies confuse an emotional response with the business objective behind it. A company might say it wants clients to feel appreciated, for example. But appreciation isn’t the end goal. Greater retention is. One describes how you want someone to feel. The other is a business outcome you can track.
Gift Intelligence provides a scalable framework for connecting gifting decisions to measurable business outcomes, so companies can create more impact from the money they’re already spending.
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