House of VIBES

Leaders, It’s not about who you know. It’s about who knows you. (I scale your reputation so you get seen by the right people). 

LinkedIn Personal Branding for CEOs, C-suite execs, and Leaders.

Founder & CEO

Gabriele Grikstaite

Self-employed External Marketing Consultant for various tech companies.

Digital Marketing Consultant

KPMG Denmark

In my position as Marketing Consultant at KPMG in Denmark my primary responsibilities included: 

- Establishing the corporation's LinkedIn presence 
- Planning, coordination and execution of KPMG and third party events
- Coordination and management of corporate sponsorship agreements 
- Developing and creating marketing deliverables such as collateral, newsletters, sales brochures and videos and coordination with internal stakeholders and agencies
- Collaboration with different internal business units to support marketing programs and deliverables that position KPMG for future sales opportunities 

Started as a student assistant in the team while completing my Master's degree.

Marketing Consultant

Agentur LOOP

Community Manager for the agency's Scandinavian brand activities on Facebook.
Primary tasks:

- Leading the team of four Scandinavian Community Managers
- Active Community Management for two global brands in Denmark 
- Creation of editorial calendars and creative content 
- Stats, screenshots of best conversations and short explanation in order to create monthly report for the client 
- Improve ideas on community management

Lead Community Manager Scandinavia

Copenhagen Fashion Week

While working as project assistant at Copenhagen Fashion Week I assisted with the execution of the following projects: 

- Danish and international press contact
- Maintainance of the contact database 
- Maintainance of the websites: danishfashioninstitute.dk, copenhagenfashionweek.com and copenhagenfashionfestival.com, including writing news bites, uploading event information and images  
- Coordinating the backstage lounge at the official Copenhagen Fashion Week show venue, including contact with sponsors 
- Editorial assistance with the Copenhagen Fashion Festival programme  
- Assisted the coordinators of the volunteer crew during fashion week 
- Assisted the sales coordinator at the office with various tasks 

Furthermore, I assisted on the event planning and execution of Copenhagen Fashion Summit 2012 in the Copenhagen Opera House.

Project Assistant

Personal Branding Catalyst | LinkedIn Ghostwriting for Purpose-Led Founders & Execs @vibecopy.io

As a Leader, your personal brand is a powerhouse.

Investors, customers, business partners, and top talent don’t just invest in ideas; they invest in people - in you and the vision you represent.

You’ve spent years building a strong professional reputation offline. Now, it’s time to scale it online.

That’s where I come in.

I help CEOs, C-suite execs, and leaders like you build a strong personal brand online and scale your reputation on LinkedIn (and beyond), positioning you as the go-to person in your field.

"Gabi absolutely knows what she’s doing! Within just a month of partnering with Gabriele, we've seen a noticeable uptick in inbound leads and coffee meetings being scheduled. Her expertise in LinkedIn personal branding is unparalleled.”

- Alex Pavlou, CEO, NYC

”Gabi is an expert at building thought leadership on LinkedIn. She transformed my LinkedIn presence from day one, expertly aligning my personal brand strategy with impactful posts. Her deep understanding of communications, PR, branding, and LinkedIn dynamics is unmatched.”

- Nicolas B., General Manager, GCC 

"Working with Gabriele is an absolute must for any business Leader looking to grow their personal brand on LinkedIn."

- Susanne Larsson, Executive advisor and former Big 4 Partner, CPH

Building your reputation behind closed doors is no longer enough. 

If you want to: 

- Build trust at scale
- Stand out in your field
- Get seen by the right people 
- Open doors to new opportunities 
- Be the go-to expert (even when you’re not in the room)

Then, you need to build authority at scale. 

In business, it’s not only about who you know. It’s about who knows and trusts you. 

If that’s of interest to you, you’re in the right place. 

I work with CEOs, C-suite execs, and leaders across all stages of their career, from leading companies to expanding to a portfolio career, transitioning from corporate to investor (and more).

There are 2 ways I help Leaders scale their reputation on LinkedIn: 

1. one-on-one coaching (LinkedIn personal branding)
2. I create content for you to scale your reputation on LinkedIn (and beyond)

Send me a DM if you want to get the details.

Social First Agency

We help early-stage B2B startups generate demand through founder-led LinkedIn content.

We do this through regular content interviews with the founder, capturing their insights, experiences, and vision. Then we turn it into on-brand video content and copy that speaks directly to your ideal customers. 

With our team by your side, you will be:

- Publishing content that resonates with your target audience
- Building trust and credibility at scale through video content
- Attracting high-quality prospects that are already familiar with your product and thinking

Oh, and as a bonus? It helps you attract investors and top-tier talent too. 😉

Founder

LADbible Group

UNILAD Adventure is the most engaged travel channel on social media, with a combined following of 6M people and reaching 120M people weekly (data as of Sept, 2018). The channel specialises in creating shareable and relatable travel content that transcends language and cultural barriers.

Due to my hiring 9 months earlier, the Adventure page achieved a more consistent flow of good quality content. I often put new ideas forward on how to grow the Facebook and Instagram channels and produce better content, becoming more and more involved in developing new video concepts and formats across different social media channels.

As a result, I was promoted to a Social Video Manager role, responsible for managing my own team and being more involved in creative projects and branded client work.

• Overseeing a team of three junior video editors and making sure the Facebook and Instagram pages had a consistent stream of quality content on a daily basis.

• Working alongside Head of Adventure developing new concepts and video formats for Facebook, Instagram and Youtube.

• Shooting original content across the world and training the new starters to be familiar with our shooting guidelines and style.

• Presenting, shooting and editing engaging Instagram stories.

Attached are the links to the projects I have been involved in shooting and editing during my time as a Social Video Manager.

Social Video Manager - UNILAD Adventure

• Editing videos tailored to Facebook and Instagram, adapting them to be shareable and relatable for social audiences, especially on mobile. 

• Writing and developing scripts for social videos.

• Shooting original travel content on location with Social Video Manager, learning the Unilad Adventure shooting style.

• When required, helping out with contacting content creators to source content and scheduling posts on Facebook and Instagram pages.

Attached are links to the projects I was involved in shooting and editing during my time as Junior Video Editor.

Junior Video Editor - UNILAD Adventure

Teleport

•  In charge of content distribution on Social Media accounts via Buffer.
•  Growth hacking to achieve the daily unique visitors goal, mainly using Facebook and Reddit.
•  Keyword research for SEO and setting up keyword tracking campaigns on Moz.
•  Reaching out to bloggers and online magazines for collaborations.

Marketing Intern

Adcash

•  Reaching out to online magazines and blogs for promotional opportunities.
•  Creating and running Adwords campaign for Mandarin speakers.
•  Creating bi-weekly Mailchimp campaigns for publishers.
•  Analyzing Adcash's platform compared to competitors and creating a Surveymonkey survey to collect feedback.
•  Writing content for Adcash blog.
•  Helping with the organisation of Christmas gifts tender.

Captivate Training & Consulting

Skills obtained: MailChimp, Insightly, E-mail marketing – A/B testing, Chinese Social Media management, networking.

•  In charge of Social Media accounts to generate leads – LinkedIn, WeChat and Weibo.
•  Creating marketing content – designing e-mails, brochures and videos.
•  Networking and business development – representing the company at networking events and cold calling potential clients. 
•  Organising networking events for HR professionals.

NiceTalk (Hangzhou Feizhu Technology Co.)

Skills obtained: Hootsuite, Hubspot, Photoshop

•  In charge of Social Media Strategy - promotion, engagement, conversion
•  Managing Facebook and Twitter accounts
•  Content creator for weekly notifications/newsletters within the app
•  Engagement with clients through replies, comments and direct messaging
• Creating monthly analytics reports

Social Media Manager

UCLan Students Union

Member of the Students Union team and Supervisor at Essentials Shop
Skills obtained include supervising, motivating, problem-solving, time management and customer service.

•  Supervising a team and allocating tasks.
•  Helping out with organizing and smooth running of several campaigns throughout the year (SU elections, open days, fairs)
•  Serving and advising customers.
•  Managing stock and deliveries using Point Four software.

Retail Supervisor

UCLan Business and Management Society

Skills I obtained during my time of being the Treasurer include financial control, budgeting and finding sponsors.

Responsibilities:
•  Coordinate the finances of the society.
•  Ensure financial stability and sustainability for the society.
•  Present and prepare budgets for new and ongoing work.

Treasurer

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

Political Department, 4th division (Asia, Africa, Australia and Latin America)

Skills I obtained include report writing, analysing and evaluating, translating documents, web-site management.

Internship outcomes:
•  Learned about international relations between the West and China.
•  Produced an in-depth report on China-ASEAN relations.
•  Gained knowledge of how a government organisation works.

Summer Intern

Founder-led social content for B2B companies | Driving business growth through Founder-led Marketing & Personal Branding | LinkedIn Ghostwriter & Personal Brand Strategist

Ironically, I wasn’t always a fan of LinkedIn. The self-promotional and often cringe-worthy content put me off spending much time there... But now, I create LinkedIn content for a living. 😆 What changed?

In 2023, I noticed the poor quality of content dominating the platform. The feed was full of “experts” and stale company posts.

However, I was drawn to a few founders sharing their valuable insights, opinions and genuine journeys along the way.

This sparked something: every founder & subject matter expert should be building brand awareness for their business through their personal profiles.

After successfully building up a client's founder profile and also my own, I was convinced that this is THE playbook for B2B social content.

So, I launched our Founder-Led LinkedIn content creation service.

Since then, I’ve witnessed the incredible impact that building a personal brand on LinkedIn can have on a business (watch our Case Studies). It’s safe to say I’m a convert..

As a Content Strategist & Writer, I work hands-on with clients, backed by my talented Video Editor and Graphic Designer.  

Our mission is to help brilliant founders tell their story, share their expertise, and grow their business through building a presence on LinkedIn.

Interested in launching a founder-led content motion for your company? Drop me a message.

Elenor Hodgson

If you’re an early-stage startup founder trying to book more demos for your >$50k ACV product in 2026 - consider activating your founder(s) on LinkedIn and running Thought Leadership and ‘Book a demo’ ads towards your target accounts.

This is the playbook I’m supporting clients with:

1. Activate the founder(s) on LinkedIn via organic content. Post minimum 3x p/w following three core themes: Industry insights & expertise (~60%), company & product (~20%), personal interests and values (~20%).

2. Run best-performing organic posts on industry insights and product-related posts as thought leader ads towards your target account list.

These work brilliantly for brand visibility (you can guarantee your content is being seen by your target accounts - and you can see which accounts are seeing & engaging your content with Fibbler which then also calculates pipeline influence.).

3. Launch standalone ‘Book a demo’ retargeting ads to the most engaged audiences that are showing higher intent. This gets demos on your sales teams calendar.

So far, I’ve been solely focusing on organic founder content on LinkedIn but it’s become pretty clear to me that adding LinkedIn ads on top of it is a no-brainer. It's proving very effective for ABM (the slack message made my week🙂). Will share more as I keep learning about this! 

If you're a marketer in the b2b tech space running a similar playbook, I'd love to jam on this and share insights, drop me a message! ☕️

Founder-led social content for B2B tech startups. Turn your founders' expertise into LinkedIn content your buyers care about. Trusted by Speedinvest & Seedcamp-backed startups.

I’m not exaggerating when I say that almost every founder I work with doesn’t ACTUALLY want to be creating content on LinkedIn.

It feels uncomfortable. Maybe even cringe. You’re constantly putting yourself out there to be judged. You have to compress your complex vision into a few sentences. And everyone’s watching - your team, customers, investors, the board. 

(The point of this post wasn’t to put you off though so hear me out.. 😂)

Despite all of the above, they still do it - and the reason why is simple.

- Inbound picks up - you’re having warmer conversations. 

- Trust is there from the get go. Prospects are way more receptive about what you have to say. They even turn to you/your company for answers.

- Investors are showing up in your inbox and DMs.

- Talent is reaching out wanting to work with you.

- The upside is obvious once you’re in it.

But not only that - it’s actually interesting how you evolve as a leader by forcing yourself to put your thoughts out there.

“Creating content” kind of undersells that part, as one of the real benefits is how much clearer you get about what you believe and how you lead.

Once your thinking is out in public, you start holding yourself to a higher standard.

If you're a early- or growth-stage tech founder who's up for the challenge, drop me a message.

A few days ago, I was invited to Dragonfly's launch party in London. The room was packed. Sean and Sven are only ~5 months out of stealth - two technical founders who've never been comfortable in the spotlight. But there they were, surrounded by their community showing up for them! 👏🏼

So naturally, I had to pull them aside and ask them how they think about building in public, creating LinkedIn content, and community building as early-stage founders.

For context, Dragonfly is an AI-powered tech companion that helps businesses find the right software for their tech stack in seconds. So far they've helped 400+ businesses, recommended 26k+ tools, and saved 1000s of hours and $$$ for their customers since launch!

Here’s what they told me:

1/ They're intentional about community

Sean mentioned how they looked at really well-established startups over the last few years and saw it was all around community. So they also set out to build their champions and supporters around them and what they do. It takes effort, but it works! 

2/ Get comfortable being uncomfortable 

They talked about how they'd been living completely private lives before Dragonfly. Being open and vulnerable was genuinely uncomfortable at first, BUT once you start and get into the flow of things, it becomes easy pretty quickly.

3/ Take photos of EVERYTHING

You don't know when you're going use them, but they will probably find their way on LinkedIn at some point. Team offsites, conferences, bts etc - they're documenting their actual journey and bringing people along for the ride.

4/ Talk to your customers from DAY 1

Don't wait until you're ready or the product is polished, you need to talk to your customers from day one. You're building a business, not just technology features so you need to be close to your customers, and social media helps with staying connected in that way as well.

 5/ Use AI to speed things up, but keep the human in the loop 

As they create the content themselves, they need to be clever about how they do it. AI helps them be more effective. Sven mentioned how an agentic browser has been one of his favourite tools - it helps capture data and track engagement. They also have an automation in place that feeds them relevant research reports and creates drafts in their tone of voice. Human review (Sven or Sean) is always the final step before publishing. So use AI where it can do the gruntwork (research, structure, first drafts), then make sure it sounds like you and add any missing context or insight.

SO many great tips!!

And one more thing I loved: During their talk, they both actively encouraged people to share about what they're building and follow along on LinkedIn. Sure enough, I've already seen 5-10+ posts about the launch pop up on my feed. And here I am too. It’s a smart way to create buzz and break into new audiences.

Thank you for having me at the launch party and being up for the unprompted interview! 😄 Rooting for you and the team 🙌🏼

I've seen too many early-stage founders waste time & money on their company blog, traditional PR, and corporate content - barely moving the needle.

It's an uphill battle that doesn’t need to happen.

In 2025, building awareness and visibility for early-stage startups should start with the founder themselves. They should be the marketing channel - the storyteller, the distribution and the trust signal that companies and decision-makers are looking for.

My belief comes from working with tech founders across different industries over the past ~2 years. The marketing playbook for startups has completely changed. What does work really well in the early stage to get initial traction and buzz is founder-led content.

But how do you make it work?

There are three things that make up founder brand which attracts inbound interest (and talent, investors), builds trust and credibility at scale:

1. Founder POV 
   
This is what you believe and why it matters. You wouldn't have started this company if you didn't believe something was broken in your industry. Maybe you've seen the problem from the inside. Or you've experienced the pain point yourself. The insights and opinions on what’s happening in the industry. Plus the human side of who you REALLY are as a person (maybe it’s books, or running or sports?) It gives people the whole picture of who you are.

 2. Social Proof 

This is the evidence that what you're doing is working and that you have momentum. And no, it doesn’t need to be a $5M ARR in 90 days screenshot. Think of any milestones you’ve hit - like product usage growth, team growth, new partnerships. Customer quotes (even a screenshot from an email or whatsapp) works nicely here too. All of it showcases momentum, and you can create content out of all these aspects.

 3. Distribution 

This is about showing up consistently where your audience already is. Your LinkedIn profile is at the core of this, but it also includes industry talks/panels and podcast appearances (repurpose these into LinkedIn content as well - get the flywheel going). Consistency matters here. Showing up regularly in the places that you know you'll be seen - and in most B2B cases, LinkedIn is the place to be.

tl;dr: I’m convinced for early-stage startups the founder is the best marketing channel.

Founders are best suited to shape the messaging and voice early on. Nobody else has spent as much time thinking about the business as they have. They already have everything they need - but just need support to get this motion up and running efficiently so it doesn’t steal too much time from their already packed calendar.

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