I live near Minneapolis and am blessed with a beautiful family and life of adventure. My hobbies include hiking to hammock, photographing my floral designs, booking the trips, collecting crystals and making endless moodboards.

Experienced Leader

  • Asset Marketing Services/GOVMINT
    Sept 2024 - Present

    Team Size
    13 Brand, Creatives, Content Producers and Project Managers

    Overseeing
    Consumer Research, Insights, Customer Journeys, Brand Strategy, Design, Copywriting, Social, Digital, Video, Photography

  • Post Consumer Brands
    05/22 to 07/24

    Team Size
    14 Creatives and Creative Operations

    Oversaw
    Brand Strategy, Brand Design, Content Strategy, Social, Digital, Video, Photography, Packaging

    Biggest Impact
    Increased team engagement score by 41 points in the first year while helping to drive the business to unprecedented high performance.

  • Shutterfly
    12/21 to 05/22

    Team Size
    30 Designers, Art Directors, Writers, UX Designers and Associate Creative Directors. (Shutterfly & Snapfish)

    Oversaw
    Brand Strategy, Brand Design, UX/UI, Site, CRM, Social, Content Strategy, Video, Photography, Brand Partnership Campaigns

    Biggest Impact
    Led the modernization of Shutterfly's UI & Brand design systems and application across all digital products (site, app, CRM). This included component libraries and atomic content production that enabled speed and scalability.

  • Shutterfly, Walgreens, FTD, Simon/Myers
    10/14 to 12/21

    Team Sizes
    5 to 12 Designers, Art Directors and Writers

    Oversaw
    Rebrands, Brand Campaigns, Seasonal Campaigns, Content Strategy, Photography, Video, Digital, In-Store, Social, Editorial & Trends Content

    Biggest Impact
    Rebranded Walgreens master brand and simultaneously launched the myWalgreens loyalty program amidst the global pandemic. This total reinvention of the retailer's long-standing loyalty program provided customers timely, personal and meaningful resources to help them navigate uncertain times. This new program rolled out in less than 12 months thanks to agile transformation adopted by those in the organization that were committed to quickly helping customers as the pandemic rapidly unfolded.

  • ULTA Beauty
    11/13 to 10/14

    Team Size
    5 Designers

    Oversaw
    Beauty Trends, CRM, Digital Display, Social, Content Strategy, Photography, Video

    Biggest Impact
    Within a year, streamlined process efficiencies to scale creative output in email, social and digital display by 4x. This resulted in a Black Friday and Q4 Holiday campaigns exceeding KPIs by 2.6M in online sales.

  • Valspar
    10/11 to 11/23

    Team Size
    3 Designers

    Oversaw
    Color Trends, Packaging, In-Store, Print, Content Strategy, Video, Photography

    Biggest Impact
    Turned Devine Color, a little-known paint company in Portland, Oregon, into a national brand by crafting an authentic brand story, telling it consistently and selling the full product line into all Target stores.

Trusted Advisor

Cali is the founder of Butter—a strategy-first brand advisory service that believes meaningful brands mean everything. She works along side clients in the CPG, luxury goods, retail, ecommerce, food, beauty, health, wellness, home and tech industries who understand that brand design starts with brand strategy.


My Values

Be Kind

#1 rule, just be a nice human,
kindness goes a long way.

Be Helpful

Show up and be helpful,
always be a problem solver.

Be Humble

Be OK knowing
what you don’t know.

Be Curious

Never stop observing and learning something new every day.

Give Energy

Be the light. Inspire, motive
and fuel others.

K.I.S.S.

If it feels complicated, it is
complicated. Keep it Simple to Scale.


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