HAYVN Hub For Marketing
Join HAYVN’s diverse marketers in a dynamic, supportive network — connect, exchange insights/resources, and more.
You’re Invited! Monthly Marketing Meetups: Ask The Experts, Marketing Collective Meetup, Marketing Coworking Day — Fridays at HAYVN.
About HAYVN Hub For Marketing
HAYVN’s membership boasts passionate marketers from every industry and marketing discipline – social, email, branding, strategy, design, video, copywriting, public relations and more. They provide a wealth of knowledge for the HAYVN community as well as a dynamic, supportive network for each other.
The HAYVN Hub for Marketing is the newest addition to HAYVN’s roster of subject matter hubs that currently include Sustainability and Social Impact, Health and Wellness, Empowering Women and Entrepreneurship – all adding to the diverse mix of talented professionals that are a part of fabric of HAYVN.
Monthly Marketing Meetups — Fridays at HAYVN
Join us for HAYVN’S Monthly Marketing Meetups which may include:
- Connecting and exchanging insights and resources with fellow marketers across diverse fields, such as content creation, branding, design, video production, AI, and more.
- Featured expert guest speakers and workshops/training
- Ask The Experts
- Marketing Collective Meetup
- HAYVN Marketing Podcast
- How to participate in HAYVN’s Marketing Cooperative
- Plus, marketers can cowork at HAYVN for the day
Admission
Monthly Meetings in-person at HAYVN.
- HAYVN Members: Free with code on members portal. For help accessing members portal please email questions@hayvn.com
- Non-Members: $25, includes your day of coworking at HAYVN
About Ask The Experts — 10am-11am
Bring your burning marketing questions and get real-time advice from HAYVN’s multidisciplinary panel of marketing professionals.
Open to public.
About The Marketing Collective — 11:30pm-12:30pm
The HAYVN Marketing Collective is a dynamic group of marketing professionals who come together monthly to network, share insights, and exchange resources. Through guest speakers, interactive sessions, and masterminds, members collaborate to solve business challenges and work cross-functionally on paid marketing projects. This collective fosters innovation and teamwork, driving growth for businesses and entrepreneurs alike.
September 25, 2026 Session: The Empathy Advantage: Why Human Connection Is the Most Essential Marketing Strategy in an AI‑Powered World
Meeting Time: 11:30am-12:30pm
Speaker: Marissa Latshaw, Founder of Latshaw Marketing, Bio
In today’s AI-powered, device-dependent world, technology is transforming how we market, communicate, and do business. The organizations that stand out will be those that never lose sight of the people they serve.
In this interactive session, we’ll explore how empathy can become a strategic marketing and business advantage—helping organizations build strong customer relationships, increase engagement, strengthen organizational culture, and inspire meaningful actions that lead to the results you want! Through research, real-world examples, and collaborative discussion, participants will walk away with a systematic framework for embedding empathy into marketing, leadership, and decision-making.
Key Takeaways:
- A deeper understanding of why intentional empathy is essential in today’s marketing landscape.
- A clear system for tapping into the empathy of your leaders and team members to connect more effectively with the people you serve.
- A practical framework for building stronger connections with customers, employees, and stakeholders.
- Immediately actionable strategies for using empathy to strengthen your marketing, brand, and overall business.
About Marketing Coworking Day — 9am-5pm
All marketing professionals welcome to stay and cowork for day when attending our Monthly Marketing Meetups to connect, exchange insights/resources with fellow marketers across diverse fields.
Mark Your Calendars!
- Sep. 25, 2026 – Monthly Marketing Meetups. SIGN UP
- Oct. 9, 2026 – Monthly Marketing Meetups.
- Nov. 13, 2026 – Monthly Marketing Meetups.
- Dec. 11, 2026 – Monthly Marketing Meetups.
Missed A Meeting? Learn About Topics From Experts In HAYVN’s Marketing Blog?
Explore all the marketing hub blogs or read the latest below!
The Power of Storytelling in Marketing: Takeaways from HAYVN’s Marketing Meetup
At a recent HAYVN Marketing Meetup, we explored a topic at the heart of every great marketing campaign: storytelling. Our speaker, Matthew Reynolds, Founder & Video Storyteller of Rustic Roots —a social impact storytelling agency that has collaborated with over...
HAYVN Marketing Collective Founding Members
Kim Barron, New Leaf Brand Strategy + Design
Kim is the Founder of New Leaf Brand Strategy + Design. New Leaf’s holistic approach gets to the heart of your brand, creating a deeply rooted foundation so your business can thrive and flourish from the inside out. Kim thoroughly enjoys steering creative projects with a focused clarity that helps clients relax into the process. Her calm demeanor and detail-oriented approach allows her to dig deep with clients, ensuring that their core message comes through and their business objectives are achieved. Whether it’s in her work or in her relationships, Kim prides herself on going beneath the surface level to develop thoughtful, authentic connections.
Chris Bojanovich, BRANDCELLENCE
Chris is the founder of BRANDCELLENCE, an award-winning photographer, and an expert in building online brands that stand out. He helps entrepreneurs turn their websites and brand photography into tools that attract leads and convert them into paying customers. His approach? Create websites and visuals that are a 100% authentic reflection of who you are—because when your brand feels real, it works. With years of experience working with real estate agents, startups, lawyers, doctors, and creatives, Chris knows how to design brands that grab attention and grow businesses. When he’s not helping clients thrive, he’s in Connecticut with his amazing wife and two kids.
Virginia Juliano, Virginia Juliano Strategic
Virginia is a hands-on Marketing Strategist, Business Advisor and Strategy Coach who helps creative and wellness-focused businesses cut through the overwhelm and break free from endless cycles of uncertainty to achieve meaningful growth. By working collaboratively with each client, she crafts focused strategies that bring clarity, structure, and support—empowering business owners to refine their vision, concentrate their efforts and uncover unique opportunities for expansion. Before founding Virginia Juliano Strategic, Virginia enjoyed a successful career as a marketing executive at several major media companies and holds an MBA in Marketing and Management from NYU’s Stern School of Business.
Jacqueline Kurdziel, West End GTM Advisory
Jacqueline Kurdziel is the founder of the go-to-market advisory firm West End. She works at the intersection of brand, growth, and strategy to help companies—from VC-backed startups to PE-backed scaleups and global brands—accelerate revenue, reduce customer acquisition costs, and thoughtfully embed AI into their go-to-market infrastructure. Over two decades, she’s helped companies sharpen their value narratives and unlock new markets. A former growth leader at venture-backed startups that exited to Northwestern Mutual, WeWork, and Seismic, she’s launched a 2025 TIME Best Invention of the Year, an Amazon best-selling book, and strategic growth initiatives for enterprises including EY, UBS, JP Morgan Chase and AB-InBev. She holds an MBA from UVA’s Darden School of Business and a BA from Vanderbilt University.
Marie Patel, Girl On The Ball Solutions
By day, Marie Protomastro Patel wears two hats – one as the part-time Director of Marketing for Redniss & Mead, the land-use consulting firm, and the other as Founder & Chief Girl of Girl On The Ball Marketing Solutions. When not strategizing marketing and content plans and helping clients grow their businesses, she can be found exploring the world, teeing off on the golf course, or getting creative with photography and watercolors.
Nancy Sheed, Sheed Communications
Nancy Sheed is a communication strategist with more than 20 years experience in the communications and publishing industries. Originally working in public relations for media companies like Bloomberg BusinessWeek and Worth magazine, Nancy shifted into the digital content space when she started her company, Sheed Communications, over ten years ago. She now helps people get confidently connected online and offline so they can be seen, be found, and be heard by their target audience. Her clients include authors, thought leaders and entrepreneurs seeking to authentically integrate content marketing and social media into their personal brand building and communications strategy.