Strategic Advisor

About Rhodes BrandingRhodes Branding is a strategic branding and marketing agency that exclusively serves the education space. We're known for vertical depth, strategy-first engagements, and outcomes: enrollment growth, teacher recruitment, brand transformations, and positioning that actually moves the metrics that matter.We're building a curated network of Strategic Advisors. Respected education operators whose names, networks, and judgment we trust enough to make us better at what we do.What This IsStrategic Advisors are education leaders who help Rhodes Branding identify and build relationships with the right schools, districts, and education organizations. The role is part influence, part network, part instinct. You're someone whose recommendation carries weight in the education community, and you're choosing to lend that weight to an agency you believe in.In practice, that looks like:Making warm introductions when you encounter a school, district, charter network, or education organization that genuinely needs what Rhodes doesSharing perspective on education trends, dynamics, and emerging needs in your region or area of expertiseOccasionally lending your name and credibility — speaking at a Rhodes event, joining a panel, contributing to a piece of thought leadershipHelping us refine how we show up in the market, which buyers we should pursue, and where we're getting positioning wrongAdvisors operate on their own cadence, drawing from networks they've already built, making intros when the fit is genuine.Who We're Looking ForStrategic Advisors typically share a few things in common:Leadership experience inside education as a superintendent, charter network leader, ESA director, CMO of an education service provider, or in a comparable senior roleA network of school and district leaders who actively trust your judgmentFamiliarity with how education organizations make purchasing decisions about marketing, branding, enrollment, and CTEA genuine belief that strong branding and marketing can change outcomes for schools, students, and the educators who serve themWe're particularly interested in advisors with deep ties to:CTE and workforce development at the district, state, or national levelCharter networks and charter management organizationsMid-to-large public school districts navigating enrollment, communications, or brand challengesEducation technology and service-provider companies serving the education spaceWhat You GetA referral fee structure that recognizes the value of your introductionsDirect access to our team for thought partnership on the education market and your own work in itInclusion in a small network of education operators. Most of our advisors find the peer access as valuable as the financial sideOptional involvement in Rhodes thought leadership: podcast appearances, co-authored articles, panel participation, conference contentA one-page agreement, no exclusivity, no minimum commitments, 30-day exit by either side