The Thought Leadership Marketing and Strategy Practice

“Randall is always one of my first calls whenever I embark on a new venture or need to make a big pivot with an existing business.”

- Bryan Wiener, CEO, Profitero; former CEO, 360i

I’m Randall Rothenberg, and I am a trusted advisor to business leaders grappling with the complexities of digital adaptation and transformation. My expertise is designing and implementing initiatives that help organizations differentiate their offerings, attract and retain talent and customers, and grow their businesses. I built multimillion-dollar service offerings for global consulting firms; transformed a small trade body into one of the world’s most powerful business associations; identified and wrote the playbook for the DTC market; predicted the collapse of big media 15 years before it happened; authored a cultural history of advertising that is taught in colleges and graduate schools around the world; and forecast the rise of the tech-savvy neoliberal movement in the American Democratic Party. My work is premised on a simple precept:

Thought leadership is the magnet that pulls people into the room. Once they’re there, you can coalesce them to change things for the better.

Services We Offer

Next wave digital adaptation

I advise organizational leaders on how to identify and thrive amid the newest wave of digital transformation, helping them implement processes and behaviors that respect consumer privacy; enhance data security; recognize the shifting power of global platforms; acknowledge new, international regulatory constraints; embrace new types of media (including streaming video, podcasting, and the metaverse); cultivate the decentralized Creator Economy; and realize the risks and opportunities presented  by the accelerating disruption of legacy brands and shopping behaviors.

Differentiated, data-driven storytelling

In a global economy in which B2C and B2B concepts are easy to mimic and inexpensive to market, revenue growth requires a continual flow of differentiating ideas, rooted in qualitative and quantitative research, that is then crafted into multi-media narratives with impact. I design research that can tell powerful tales to your stakeholders. And I know how to tell those tales: I’ve run the gamut, from presenting industry-changing research before 5,000 marketing leaders at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival, to hosting intimate dinners for 20 customers for entrepreneurial companies to position themselves.