Your brand,
fully activated.

Unapologetic by design.

KMB Studio turns 12 years of enterprise marketing into a repeatable engine for founders ready to grow. I specialize in helping early-stage startups and boutique brands build the identity, presence, and marketing foundation that gets them taken seriously and chosen.

Brand reach
↑ 3.2×
avg. post-activation
Channels live
6 / 6
fully activated
Enterprise experience
12 yrs
GTM leadership
Built with experience from
First Round Capital
Expert in Residence · Customer Marketing
Forbes 30 Under 30
Honoree
Asana
VP of Customer Advocacy
Anaplan
First Customer Marketing Hire · IPO
Mixpanel
Built Full Marketing Function LATAM & NA
Marketo
Sales Development Lead · IPO
Talkdesk
Head of Customer Marketing
Signifyd
Director of Customer Marketing & Community
Brand Identity · Channel Activation · Podcast Production · Website Design · Marketing Reports · Branding & Swag · Event Activation · Growth & Sustainability · Fractional CMO · Series A & B Ready · Brand Identity · Channel Activation · Podcast Production · Website Design · Marketing Reports · Branding & Swag · Event Activation · Growth & Sustainability · Fractional CMO · Series A & B Ready ·
The KMB Engine

Four offerings.
One repeatable system.

12 years of enterprise marketing — packaged into four focused offerings that activate your brand, build your community, and scale your pipeline.

As featured in & trusted by
01

Customer-Led Growth Engine

The flagship. Built from leading customer marketing functions at Asana, Anaplan, Mixpanel, and Talkdesk — and recognized by First Round Capital and Forbes. Senior-level ownership of your entire customer marketing engine, packaged as a retainer for Series A–C companies.

Customer Advocacy CAB Launch & Management Proof Asset Systems Case Studies & References G2 · Gartner Reviews Lifecycle Campaigns CS Enablement Sales Enablement Expansion Pipeline KPI Reporting Retainer-Based
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02

Community Development

Building communities that actually stick. From Anaplan's community launch and rebrand pre-IPO, to customer advisory boards, executive roundtable series, webinar programs, and Slack communities — I build the infrastructure that turns customers into champions and champions into revenue.

Community Strategy & Launch Customer Advisory Boards Executive Roundtables Webinar Programs Slack Community Builds Engagement Frameworks Customer Recognition Community-Led Growth Data-Driven Engagement
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03

Boutique Brand & Content Studio

For founders who need a full creative partner — not a vendor list. From brand identity to your weekly newsletter, podcast to your website, ghostwritten LinkedIn to a full content engine. Everything is built to feel premium, on-brand, and unapologetically yours.

Brand Identity & Strategy Website Design & Build Podcast Development Ghostwriting Content Engine LinkedIn Strategy Social Content Branding & Swag Newsletter & Email Thought Leadership
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04

Build the Marketing Engine from Scratch

For founders who need to stand up a marketing function and don't know where to start. I come in as your Fractional CMO and build the whole thing — strategy, team, channels, campaigns, events, and reporting. From zero to a machine that generates pipeline and scales with your next round.

Marketing Strategy Team Development & Hiring Events & Campaigns Customer Engagement Pipeline Generation Demand Gen Field Marketing GTM Planning Fractional CMO Series A/B/C Ready
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12
Years building enterprise marketing functions from the ground up
1
Repeatable engine, built to scale with your funding stage
About KMB Studio

Built by a practitioner.
Powered by purpose.

KMB Studio was founded by Kalina M. Bryant — Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and marketing executive who has built entire marketing functions from scratch. At Asana, she built growth marketing and customer advocacy. At Mixpanel, she built the full marketing function for LATAM and North America — demand gen, field, customer engagement, and content. At Anaplan, she drove brand, customer marketing, demand gen, community, email, and webinars.

On her own she's built a podcast, a community, and a content engine — and for Base.ai, she built events and content programs. That's the experience she's now packaging into a repeatable marketing engine for the founders who need it most.

Forbes 30 Under 30 12 Years GTM Women-Owned Black-Owned Series A - C Marketing Expert Boutique & Intentional

Who We Serve

For founders who
refuse to be invisible.

I specialize in helping early-stage startups and boutique founders who need enterprise-grade marketing without the enterprise overhead and ambitious business owners who know their brand deserves more.

🚀

Tech Startups

Series A through D founders who need a marketing engine that makes investors take notice. Think Spur, Base.ai — bold ideas that need bold marketing to match.

GTM · Brand · Growth Engine

💼

Female Founders

The driven woman running multiple businesses, building a nonprofit, raising kids, and still changing her industry. We see you. This was built for you.

Brand · Channels · Community

🏥

Healthcare, Wellness & Local Businesses

Therapists, psychiatrists, wellness practitioners, boutique daycares, local restaurants, and neighborhood service providers. Whether you need a podcast that builds authority, a website that gets you found, or a social presence that earns trust — we build the brand that your community deserves to see.

Podcast · Brand · Website · Social

🎤

Thought Leaders, Speakers & Nonprofits

Executives, academics, and mission-driven organizations building a public platform. We build the brand, the podcast, the content engine, and the storytelling that gets you into the rooms — and the hearts — you deserve.

Personal Brand · Podcast · Content · Events

How It Works

From first call to
full engine running.

i

Discovery

Deep-dive into your brand, goals, audience, funding stage, and where your marketing stands today.

ii

Strategy

A prioritized roadmap — which channels, which assets, which metrics will matter most to your growth and your investors.

iii

Activation

We build and launch — brand, channels, events, content, swag. The engine goes live and starts moving your market.

iv

Report & Scale

Monthly reporting on what's working. We optimize, scale, and build the marketing story your next round needs.

"Every founder deserves marketing as unapologetic, intentional, and bold as they are."

Kalina M. Bryant · Founder, KMB Studio

Forbes 30 Under 30 Series A/B Specialist Unapologetic by Design
What People Say

Outcomes that
speak for themselves.

From co-founders to VPs, CAB launches to community builds — here's what working with Kalina looks like.

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"Kalina is a highly skilled and proven leader in Customer Marketing and Experience. We worked together at Anaplan where she launched a very successful customer recognition program that continues to this day. I have been following her work ever since. I can highly recommend her for thoughtful and outcome-driven customer engagement programs."

Bob Slaby
Chief Customer Officer, Showpad
Peer Endorsement
Let's Build

Ready to activate
your brand
this week?

30 minutes. No pitch deck. Just an honest conversation about your brand, your goals, and whether we're the right fit.

Now accepting early-stage & boutique founders
SF Bay Area & fully remote
Forbes Under 30 network
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