Out Of Office

We’re building the operating system for experiential marketing.
Out of Office is an AI-powered platform that helps teams plan smarter, pitch faster, and scale without bloated overhead.

Our system combines automation with real human expertise—powered by a vetted global network of freelance strategists, creatives, and producers.

Agencies use Out of Office to develop proposals, find top-tier freelancers and vendors, and manage project execution.

Freelancers use Out of Office to showcase their work, access exclusive opportunities, and grow their business with the best tools in the industry.

We’re building more than a platform—we’re building the #1 membership for freelancers in experiential, with personalized portfolios, marketing tools, bidding features, and on-demand access to projects that match their skillset and goals.

Recent Experiential Collaborations:
Metamask | Hot Wheels | UNO | Google | Adidas | Live Nation | Barstool Sports | Don Julio | Mullen Automotive | Rockstar Energy | Xbox | Uber | ESPN | Mobil 1 | Insomniac | The Eagles | General Mills

Founder & Executive Producer

NVE: The Experience Agency

Senior Producer

NVE has grown to be a major player in the Experiential Marketing world. With that growth comes increased responsibility, larger budgets, crucial deadlines, high level logistics and extensive team management. As traditional marketing outlets fade, we have more clients approaching us to develop new brand stories, design/execute marketing experiences and ideate/operate promotional tours. I've managed to play a key role in every aspect of this growth and currently manage projects, logistics, production and strategy development for multiple Fortune 500 companies.

Associate Producer

We creatively produce marketing opportunities, grounded in events, for brands. The most effective marketing is an experience.

 - Experiential Marketing
 - Event Management
 - Production Advisor

Production Coordinator

Everyday California

- Focused on brand strategy and outreach, partnering with San Diego based companies and events
- B2B and B2C sales 
- Developed and managed the Street Team marketing effort
- Spent off days leading kayak and snorkel tours exploring the La Jolla cove

Marketing Associate

Live Nation

Advanced Production For: 
Jimmy Buffet | Counting Crows | OAR | U2 | One Direction | Phish | Avett Brothers | The Eagles | Jonas Brothers | Backstreet Boys | Jack Johnson | The Fray | Kaskade

- Produced shows at all of the major Chicago Venues (FirstMerit Bank Pavilion, First Midwest Bank Amphitheater, Alpine Valley, United Center, Navy Pier, Chicago Theater, Solider Field, Wrigley Field, Allstate Arena, etc.)
- Experience advancing major shows with Tour Managers
- Settlement between promoter, venue and the tour
- Developed extensive management skills; managing vendors, runners, unions, tours, artists, etc.
- Coordinate multiple vendors in the Chicago area in order to produce a show
- Schedule and organize Union workers and payroll
- Analyze and oversee the budget for the show and balance expenses 
- Understand ticket audits in order to determine gross sales and settlement deals

Assistant Production Manager

Scope Productions

Verum Magazine

- Verum is a magazine for students written by students focusing on: sports, politics, fashion, music and general interest
- Grew staff from two people to 10 full time editors and over 30 contributors 
- Distributed 4 issues to over 40 local businesses, greek houses and apartments
- Circulation of over 3,000 each issue
- Self sustaining from ad sales revenue under my supervision
- Established an office in downtown Iowa City
- Participated and won multiple business plan competitions
- Trained sales team
- Coordinated distribution outlets

COO | Co-Founder

- Executed marketing opportunities for all summer shows
- Developed promotional partnerships with Chicago businesses
- Delivered tickets to major radio stations (XRT, B96, The Mix, Kiss FM, The Loop, Etc.)
- Took tickets to 50+ hotel concierges a week
- Worked at First Midwest Amphitheater and Tinley Park
- Answered the phone for two national booking agents
- Filed and reviewed talent contracts
- Worked closely with the House of Blues marketing team
- Hung promotional material in venues
- Worked on and filed ticket tax spread sheets
- Escorted media and photographers at shows
- Involved with River's Edge Festival marketing team
- Became familiar with Ticketmaster system when working the box office at First Midwest Amphitheater

Marketing | Booking Intern

Sigma Pi Fraternity

- Elected position
- Market fraternity to gain interest and exposure to incoming freshman
- Plan creative events throughout the summer, fall and spring to attract new members
- Doubled and tripled our pledge class size in the fall and spring
- Develop relationships between new members and active members

Recruitment Director

- Plan, organize and execute new creative events every week with a different sorority
- Maintain positive image of our fraternity on campus
- Oversee risk management and safety
- Work with the finance chair to develop a budget

Social Chair

React Presents

David Guetta | Pretty Lights | Avicii | Rusko | Skrillex | Tiga | Zeds Dead

- In charge of social media marketing 
- Posted on over 100 blogs weekly
- Created Facebook events for all concerts
- Updated and regulated Twitter competitions
- Hung promotional material in Venues
- Experience with Ticketfly in box office at Congress Theater

Social Media | Marketing Intern

Durty Nellie's

- Learned skills of organizing events at a 1,200 person venue
- Booked local/national talent 
- Worked lighting during shows
- Prepped the green room and helped bands with production
- Worked with beverage reps to plan events and specials
- Sat in on marketing meetings
- Local promotion around town and online
- Worked on their website and Facebook

Production | Promotion/Booking Intern

I'm the founder of Out of Office, the first AI-powered platform built specifically for experiential marketing teams. After over a decade producing high-stakes events for brands like adidas, Uber, Google, Apple, Amazon, Mattel and more, I saw how inefficient, manual, and bloated our industry workflows had become—so I built a better way.

Out of Office is your end-to-end system for planning and executing experiential campaigns:

> Pitch faster with AI-generated concepts, decks, and strategy.

> Scale smarter by matching with the right freelancers and vendors instantly.

> Run leaner with tools that eliminate admin and free your team to focus on big ideas.

But this platform is powered by more than just tech—it’s powered by people.
We’ve built a private network of top-tier freelancers across strategy, creative, production, and operations.

Members not only land work, they shape the future of the tools agencies use every day.

This is not a marketplace—it’s the operating system for the future of experiential work.
Launching May 2025.

Brad Jackson

Is experiential about to have it's "Napster moment"? The data says so. 

For the last decade, experiential marketing has quietly been running the same playbook - big holding companies scooping up cool agencies, bloated staff with big overhead and old/slow processes that crush creativity.

Meanwhile, the data doesn't lie...

> 53% of senior talent has gone freelance since 2020
> Boutique agencies now win an estimated 40% of mid-market RFPs
> The average cost to pitch has ballooned 3-5x
> Brands are hiring smaller/faster teams and building internal capabilities

I'm sorry to all the old school Don Draper ad industry people but the shift is here.

The same shift that music went through -when gatekeepers slowed down and independents blew right past them - it's happening here right now.

I just listened to Alex Pall and Drew Taggart on Invest Like The Best talk about how the internet handed power back to creators and how their firm Mantis Venture Capital looks for founders building into these cultural shifts.

Indpendent producers, boutique studios and rogue designers - these are the ones shaping culture. 

They've just been missing the tools, the data and the momentum to fully compete. 

Until now.

We're building the accelerant. The next era belongs to the creatives who actually give a damn and our mission is to support them. 

#experientialmarketing #events #culture #startup

Founder, Out Of Office | Building the system powering the next era of experiential marketing. Follow for industry insights, freelancer tips and growth hacks.

Calling Freelancers - two open roles I'm looking to help agency friends with...

IF INTERESTED - Please follow link below and write in the ROLE TITLE for the one that you are interested in. Do not DM.

SUBMIT BY NOV 14

Role: Project Manager (Retail)
Location: MUST BE SAN FRANCISCO BASED
Details: Looking for a PM with extensive experience managing retail design builds. Must be able to collaborate with architects and manage vendors. Ideal candidate will understand materials, finishes, instals and general fabrication. 
Commitment: 20hrs/wk from now until the end of the year

Role: Creative Producer (Theatrical) 
Location: Remote (US, UK or AUS)
Details: The ideal candidate has deep roots in theme parks, immersive theatre and live experiential production with talent and human performance. If you've ever built a character bible, cast a street performer or produced a dramatic pop-up show, this is for you. You'll need to develop entertainment concepts, character personas, storylines, costume notes and collaborate with performer groups to bring the concept to life with an executive production team. 
Commitment: Now until April

Pre-Apply Form:
https://lnkd.in/dmpR4CRk

What to expect:
1. Fill out form
2. We take a pass on the list to remove anyone who is clearly not a good fit
3. Names are passed to the client
4. They will reach out to you directly if interested
5. We try and keep you as updated as possible but we are not a staffing company or a recruiter

**OOO Commitment - 
All of our agency partners, who have this kind of access and can use this channel for support are vetted, awesome, paying members on our platform with a great track record in the industry. I stand by them and the work they produce - we will not refer and put top-notch freelancers in contact with shit agencies. 

Thank you and please tag or share with people you think might be good fit.

#freelance #jobposting #gigs #eventproduction #retail #theater

Open article: Freelancer Roles by g2d2diph10t.typeform.com

I have a cry out to the designers of experiences….

Culture is getting flattened and compressed into a vertical screen at a more rapid pace everyday. So what does the future look like?

Social media (controlled by advertisement revenue) begs for more of the same. 

Slop that is optimized for performance that can appeal to the broadest audience.

Dollar in = a dollar out. The idea of art has been squashed. 

AI is incredible but this has only added fuel to the fire.

I think that us as event producers, experience designers, immersive artists need to (have to) be the ones to push the boundaries of culture.

We are some of the few creatives left that operate in a physical world - where people actually come together and laugh, smile, cry or meet new people.

Culture thrives where spontaneous interactions occur.

It’s our responsibility to squeeze in special and unique moments wherever and as often as we can.

The holding companies hands are tied, do not turn to them. It’s up to us as independent freelancers and agencies to take this baton and press on.

Infuse new ideas today. I’m cheering for you.

#culture #events #advertising #future

Freelancers are pitching ideas and concepts themselves and winning. This is historical.  What is the equation? 

Great data + expert knowledge + solid network 

Trust and expertise seems to be attracting brands to venture into new territory.

It's not for all brands but those mid-sized ones that can push the boundaries and explore are taking risk to work with talent directly.

As a big agency, if your main advantage is that you have a massive insurance policy and can bank-roll the cash for the event...you might want to rethink your 2026 strategy...

Freelancers and independent studios:
We are here for it. Our tools will let you ideate and create full-event roadmaps in minutes.

1. Competitor analysis
2. Strategy
3. Concepts (with renderings)
4. The team you need (vendors/freelancers)
5. A workback schedule
6. Budget estimate

Done for you. Trained on how you work. Getting you out of the weeds and thinking big.

Those with the best ideas should win - it's a movement for the next era.

Compress the "old-school" advantages + level the playing field. 

Let's shake shit up. 

If you're a freelancer, what holds you back from going for new business directly? We want to hear from you so we can build and support you.

#experientialmarketing #eventmarketing #eventproduction #freelance

We've had 1,000+ people sign up for our OOO 2.0 waitlist and here are the top 2 pain points from the first 500 people on the list...

Number one pain point across the group - PITCHING

As we knew from our interviews, the pitch process seems to be slowly killing everyone in the industry.

> Brands spend way too much time strategizing just to get budget approval
> Agencies spend an average of $45k to respond to an RFP
> Freelancers apply for positions and get ghosted at a shocking rate
> Vendors aren't contacted until it's too late and then scramble

Next biggest pain point? Scaling without adding headcount.

Working with freelancers isn't just an option anymore its a necessary strategy in order to survive. 

Does that resonate with what you're seeing in the industry?

We already have paying teams in the system beta-testing and piloting and the results have been amazing.  

At the beginning of the year, we'll flip this light switch on, open up this waitlist and start to revolutionize the industry.

I can't wait! 

#experientialmarketing #eventmarketing #agencygrowth

We’ve all been keeping an eye on it but now it’s really here. By revenue - Omnicom will become the largest advertising holding company in the world.

The CEO was quoted in Adweek saying “we will have have gathered together the largest group of the best creative talent ever in the industry.”

From my perspective - I just don’t believe that.

The best talent in the world is independent.

The best talent in the world believes in building their own dreams not someone else’s.

The best talent in world does not want to be another number in the system.

The best talent in the world is attracted to the fast nimble speed boat, not the massive cruise ship putting out a bland all you can eat buffet…

It’ll be so interesting to see how this rolls out and how it ultimately performs.

I think, now more than ever, you should be asking yourself…is my career dependent on someone higher up who just doesn’t give a shit? 

And if so, maybe it’s time to bet on yourself….

#advertising #liveoutofoffice #marketing #solopreneurer

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An experienced marketing & event professional with proven success leading cross-functional projects, teams, and programs in B2B and B2C. I'm curious, scrappy and not afraid to roll up my sleeves. My eclectic career journey spans 20+ years giving me a well rounded base of knowledge and expertise to draw from. Notable recent projects include leading the annual design, production and execution of MozCon, Moz's beloved digital marketing industry conference from 2018-2024,  producing multi-city micro-conferences STAT City Crawl and Conversion Road Trip, and launching The Practical Marketer webinar series and MozPod podcast series.

Recognized as the top Startup Community Builder in Ottawa Canada in 2013, one of Startup Canada’s Top 100 Rising Entrepreneur Stars in 2012, Co-producer of Cascadia Startup Day & Vancouver Startup Week, Lead Organizer and Global Facilitator for Startup Weekend, Chapter Director for Startup Grind Ottawa and Startup Grind Vancouver, Startup Digest Curator, and founding member of nonprofits–Startup Ottawa and Vancouver Startup Society.

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