• Turn your growth abmitions into market results.

    Senior marketing leadership for companies ready for their next stage of growth

    Growth Strategy Partnership &
    Fractional CMO Leadership

    You don''t necessarily need more marketing.

    You need marketing working harder for your business.

    Many growing companies have talented people, agencies and plenty of activity - but lack a clear growth strategy, differentiated positioning or the leadership to bring it all together.

    The Norgay Group helps CEOs align marketing priorities with business priorities and turn fragmented activitiy inot focused growth.

    Let's talk about your growth goals.

    Drop us a line and we can share more about how we can help your organization grow.

  • Fractional CMO leadership

    An experienced marketing leader working alongside your executive team to set priorities, lead your marketing resources, align sales and marketing, and establish measurable performance goals - without hiring a full time CMO.

    Start with clarity.

    Build a plan.

    Make it happen.

    Assess

    Identify the biggest barriers and opportunties for growth.

    Prioritize

    Create a focused roadmap aligned with business objectives.

    Lead & Activiate

    Guide your team and specialists to execute the priorities and measure progress.

  • Give Our Diagnostic A Try,

    A Perfect Way To Get Started

    A tool that assesses opportunities for marketing, brand building and growth. This has proven to be a perfect place to start when organizations are planning their year, looking for new opportunities or evaluating their capabilities.

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    Founded On Experience

    Our 30-point proprietary diagnostic assesses the six factors we have found that unlock growth for an organization.

    A Customized Approach

    We understand that each brand is unique and faces individual and dynamic circumstances, so we have developed a customized tool for categorizing insights and prioritizing opportunities based on organizational effectiveness and potential impact.

  • Experience Across Industries.

    A Focus On Business Growth.

    We have been fortunate to help organizations of all kinds grow by launching a new product or service, entering a new market with new competitors, positioning to attract new customers, or, creating an entirely new market. Here are a few examples.

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  • Helping organizations do new things

    that are shaping our world

    Here are some cases where we are fortunate to be helping people use marketing and growth strategy practices to realize amazing opportunities.

    National Retailer

    Redefining the total brand experience 

    for a leading national retailer

    Today's shopper gets more and more choices and control everyday. To shape the experience for something they anticipate we identified the competitors that were setting their expectations and the role that the different digital and physical channels play in their shopping journey. These insights are enabling the retailer to redesign stores and focus channels on the appropriate transactions and services.

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    Creating a new market position for a home entertainment company

    All the convergence in cable, phone and internet has made the connected home a modern day entertainment hub.  To present a telecommunications company that has been leading the industry for years as a contemporary entertainment provider we identified their historical competitive advantage and inspired a new identity.

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    Defining a brand and best practices

    for a social entrepreneur

    Every young organization with a cause has limited resources whether it is backed by private donors, grants or well leveraged funds.  So it can be hard to know if marketing and branding efforts are focused in just the right place.  For a global not-for-profit we developed a position for the brand, determined the most effective marketing efforts and identified the best practices and resources for growth.  There is now a marketing team in place building the brand, awareness of it and a small donor base.

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    Articulating a purpose and integrating

    efforts for a pioneering STEM educator

    Even as a leader you always need to be appealling to a new audience amidst new competition.  This is especially true in the world of higher education.  For a leading STEM school we articulated their purpose and a unifying language to communicate their core point of difference and authenticity in a category that is rapidly getting more and more crowded.

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    Finding new channels and value

    propositions for a global energy supplier

    Today's trends in energy consumption are creating a drastically new view on fuel.  To anticipate how energy will be consumed by future generations we determined the different roles that transportation and fuel played in their lives and where there were opportunities for creating new value and forms of distribution.  

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    Updating a corporate image for a

    proven clothing manufacturer and retailer

     

    Fashion has become more accessible blurring the lines between how comfort, style, performance and commerce all fit together.  To help a century-old, fully integrated clothing company adopt a fashion-forward business strategy we made their eternal passion relevant to today’s marketplace to give them a leg up in a new M&A game.

     

  • About Us

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    Doug Holroyd, Founder

    Doug has over 25 years of experience at Leo Burnett, Kimberly Clarke, Fallon and McKinney. His strategic contributions have launched new brands and products for Starbucks, Holiday Inn, Audi and Sony and created new market positions for Citi, Travelocity and Nationwide.

     

    Doug's evolved approach to strategy grew into The Norgay Group in 2009, a consultancy built to help develop growth strategies for organizations of all sizes and industries from start-ups to Fortune 50s to nonprofits to higher education.

     

    The Norgay Group's work is supported with a virtual team of subject matter experts who all have a history of working and succeeding together. Their contributions are applied as our clients require in a seamless, effective and efficient manner.

  • Insights and strategy services uncover real opportunities and the path to leverage them

     

    This is not simply research projects, but rather proven approaches to developing intelligence with actionable outcomes in mind. Our experience is rooted in creating systems of instruments that provide an ongoing evaluation along the entire demand chain, supported by a range of qualitative and quantitative tools.

     

    We are a collaborative of seasoned practitioners and subject matter experts with a history of succeeding together to uncover new opportunities for our clients. Either on a contract basis for support on a project or on a fractional basis to supplement your team, we can perform a broad range of activities to grow your brand and business:

     

     

    Market and opportunity assessment

     

    New product/service - market fit and value proposition development

    Quantitative and qualitative consumer research design and implementation

    Analysis and insights development

    Strategic planning, workshop leadership and idea generation

     

    Market, brand and prospect segmentation

    Customer journey development and modeling

     

    Brief and briefing development

     

    Multi-channel program planning

    Program performance stewardship

    Directing and inspiring multi-disciplined strategy teams

    Collaboration across internal and client teams


    Team development and mentoring


    Project and resource management