Hello.

We’re Mildred Mae.

A little bird told us you might be curious about our brand consulting services.

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Mildred Mae is a brand strategy practice built on the discovery of unexpected connections others walk past — and transforms them into a throughline that earns brands the right to matter to the people they're built for.

Lateral by nature. ◆ Human-first by principle. ◆ AI-amplified by design. ◆ Multi-disciplinary by training.

Built by Elisabeth Bromberg, a neurodivergent senior brand marketer with seventeen years of resonant, category-defining work behind her.

The Receipts

Cannes Silver Lion · Gold CLIO · 2× Webby Winner · Shorty Award · Agency, In-House, & Consulting · Global & Regional Expertise

How the work gets made

The work runs on art and science: intuition that earns its place by being right enough times, and data that earns its place by being honest about what it doesn't know. Most strategy picks a side; we don't.

Intuition is the

art.

Data is the

science.

There’s a reason they say to trust your gut. We market to humans, and data can’t explain the nuances of human emotion or fully unlock the “why” behind a cultural shift can shape the future. But intuition, empathy, and being immersed in what’s happening in the world are all key ingredients in telling your brand story.

Data is more than numbers. Whether it’s a qualitative study, your profit margin, or the amount of people who shared your last TikTok, data helps inform KPIs, understand audiences, test hypotheses, and analyze performance to inform your next move. Data both inspires and validates intuition to ensure your strategy is backed up by straight-up facts.

Brands must earn the right to matter. The job is finding the angle that makes the brand meaningful to the audience it's built for — and translating it into strategy that ships.

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Pattern recognition over template recognition. The job is finding the connection no one else has surfaced, not applying the framework everyone is already using.

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Faster and deeper. AI compounds thinking; it doesn't collapse it. If the work gets shallower, the AI is being used wrong.

Show the work. Publish before pitching. Clients hire us for what we've already said in public.

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What I believe

The cognitive operating system is the engine. The M-shape — lateral, neurodivergent, multi-disciplinary, AI-amplified — is how the work gets made. Different minds make different work.

Receipts, not vibes. Strategy gets judged on what it produces, not how it sounds in a room.

Who We’ve Worked With

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