Who We Are
Degrees of Freedom Marketing specializes in brand and marketing strategy, offering a unique approach through collaborative escape room-inspired playshops. We facilitate and guide you, enabling you to build new skills and create a strategy you’ll actually use. Our experiential methodology embraces mental, emotional and physical aspects, empowering leaders to confidently develop strategies that drive stronger customer connections.
Our Approach
We blend neuroscience, psychology, and play to unlock your brand’s potential and build lasting alignment.
Mental Focus: Strategically narrowing your marketing options through structured decision-making leads to strategic clarity, making future choices much simpler.
Emotional Spark: Engaging in the freedom of play activates and expands brain networks, creating an emotional state that supports innovation and creative problem-solving.
Physical Action: Incorporating hands-on activities transforms your perspective and deepens understanding. This process builds richer multi-sensory memories, ensuring your team remembers the brand strategy, leading to higher adoption.
Meet Michelle
Michelle Read has over 20 years of experience shaping brand strategies for industry leaders like Google, YouTube, Procter & Gamble (P&G), and Kraft Foods. She has a proven track record of bridging the gap between sales and marketing teams, aligning them around a shared vision for growth. Her mission is to cultivate clarity and creativity in marketing leaders, so they find the magic in building genuine connections, and make confident marketing decisions. By combining her business acumen and a playful, science- backed approach, she goes beyond traditional frameworks to tap into the real drivers of human connection, and transform how you think about brand strategy.
Her unique approach leverages her Master’s degree in neuropsychology from WashU in St. Louis, and her MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern University, and is inspired by her personal interests in art and the science of play. She also enjoys exploring how artificial intelligence can unlock deeper insights and streamline processes to amplify our creativity.
