Teresa Low

I spent 3 decades in marketing, leading brands and teams at very big companies like Hershey's and Beam Suntory. I learned the skills of what it takes to rejuvenate brands and build teams, and I really put it to the test in my most recent role as Chief Marketing Officer at Acme Smoked Fish. There, I had to bring all those skills and adapt them to a family-run company that never really did marketing before. This company had been around for 100 years and never had marketing, and I was able to use what makes me unique - both the left brain and right brain - to help them reposition, repackage everything, create the team, and win the hearts and minds of the people in the company, including the family members, to be behind this change. Marketing drove a lot of the wins at Whole Foods and Walmart, which were two main things that when I joined, they said would be their wish but they just couldn't get in. We did it together, and it was really led by the marketing things we put in place. A year ago, when my corporate chapter ended unexpectedly, it gave me an opportunity to pause instead of being on autopilot. I thought about what I really wanted to do, and I realized what I loved most throughout my whole career was when I was leading teams and bringing out the best in people. Someone suggested I look into coaching, and I had my first coaching client, and it told me this is really what I'm meant to do now - to take all my experience and help the person, the younger me 10 years ago, that I wish got the help to navigate without being so exhausted and feeling so invisible.