Senior Marketing Leadership for B2B Companies
Most growing B2B companies have the same problem: marketing spend with no senior brain behind it. An agency optimizing for activity. A junior marketer executing without direction. A CEO who knows something is broken but can't name what.
I find what's broken. Then we fix it.
"He walks into the initial meeting with a good understanding of our situation and requires very little time to educate him."
The Pattern
You hired someone to run marketing. Maybe you brought in an agency too. The activity is there — posts, campaigns, reports. But the pipeline doesn't reflect it, and you can't quite explain why. After 20+ years working inside B2B companies at your stage, I can.
"You can't hang the deck until the pilings are driven. Most companies are running campaigns before the foundation is set — and wondering why nothing sticks."— Rob Higley, Reveal
The fix isn't a new agency, more content, or a bigger ad budget. It's senior marketing judgment applied to your specific situation — the kind that used to require a full-time CMO hire. It doesn't anymore.
The Keystone Process
Every engagement starts with a clear diagnosis. No campaigns are built before the story is right. No retainer begins before we know what we're solving for.
Phase 01
A structured audit of your marketing, brand, pipeline, and team. Clear findings. A prioritized 90-day action plan. An honest read on what's broken and what to do first. A CEO should be able to read it in one sitting and feel like someone finally said the quiet part out loud. You leave with a written document: specific, prioritized, and yours to keep regardless of what comes next.
Keystone Report + 90-Day Action Plan
$7,500–$12,000 · 2–3 weeks
Phase 02
Your full marketing operating system — positioning, messaging architecture, channel strategy, campaign calendar, and team structure. Built with your team, not handed to them. As opinionated about what not to do as what to do.
Complete Marketing Operating System
$15,000–$22,000 · 4–6 weeks
Phase 03
Ongoing embedded senior marketing leadership — monthly direction-setting, agency oversight, a performance dashboard with my written commentary, and a senior voice in the room when decisions need to be made. Scoped so you always know exactly what you're buying.
Monthly Rhythm · Quarterly Strategy Review
$7,500–$12,000/mo · 6–18 months
Right Fit
Selected Results
Every one of these started the same way: finding the actual problem before spending a dollar on campaigns.
A global software company entering U.S. commercial construction with zero brand recognition. Built positioning from scratch, targeted early adopters with precision, landed them in the top three of a saturated category in under two years.
Led marketing through a national semi-truck company's sale and merger where brand clarity and pipeline momentum had direct impact on valuation. Sold more than 3,000 trucks in nine months.
Built a coordinated ABM program for a B2B product launch — identifying and nurturing the right targets rather than broadcasting broadly. More than $4 million in qualified pipeline resulted.
Read the full stories
Transportation · M&A
A company acquired out of bankruptcy had the wrong customers, no measurement discipline, and a hard deadline to find a buyer. The fix wasn't a new campaign.
Read the story →B2B Software · Market Entry
2% brand awareness. A modest budget. Dominant incumbents. Sharp positioning and a focused channel strategy turned it into 300% revenue growth in two years.
Read the story →Sustainable Tech · Launch
A startup with zero recognition, skeptical buyers, and competing technologies built a $4M pipeline in one year by owning the right use case instead of the whole category.
Read the story →About Rob Higley
I started in radio, where you learn fast that no one owes you their attention. You earn it in the first sentence, or you lose them. That discipline - lead with what matters, cut everything that doesn't - is the same one I bring to every engagement.
My PR career began at a top Indiana agency, where I learned how buyers form opinions long before a salesperson ever calls. From there I built and ran a nine-person marketing agency for a decade, which means I've sat on the other side of the table you're across from right now, before going inside companies as a marketing director and VP, owning budgets and being accountable for pipeline. Most consultants have lived one of those roles. The combination of all three is what makes the diagnostic work, and it's why Reveal exists. The fractional model is not a compromise. It's the role where all three perspectives are actually useful at the same time.
Reveal is not an agency. I don't produce content at scale or manage your ad spend. What I do is sit at the senior leadership level, give you an honest read on your marketing, and build the operating system your team can actually run: defined deliverables and measurable outcomes at every stage.
"Rob seamlessly embedded with our sales and production teams to define the brand and quickly build interest in the Kinetics Hybrid, managing the multiple marketing channels in a cost effective and impactful way."
— Merritt B., former CEO, Crosspoint Kinetics / Cummins
The first call is 30 minutes. No pitch deck. I'll ask about your situation and give you a straight read on whether Reveal is the right fit — and if it's not, I'll tell you that too.