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Who This Is For

I work best with a specific kind of business owner.

You run a real business with real revenue, and you're clear-eyed about the fact that you don't know everything you need to know yet. You take advice and act on it. You follow a framework when someone hands you one. You bring your own ideas and you move on the ones we land on.

You've got the capacity to act on what we decide -- your own hands, a team, or people you can bring in.

You're building something you care about, you want a partner who's been further down the road, and you'd rather the work be enjoyable than formal.

If that sounds like you, we'll do good work together.

What We Actually Work On

The whole business, not one corner of it.

Most owners come to me with a marketing question and we get about twenty minutes in before the real thing surfaces. The pricing is off. The offer is doing too many jobs. There's no system holding the week together. Or the business is fine and the owner is carrying it like it isn't.

Strategy

Where the growth is actually coming from, what to build next, and what to stop giving your attention to.

Systems

The structure underneath the work, so the business runs on something other than your memory and your energy.

Decisions

Pricing, offers, hiring, launches. The calls that carry real money and usually get made alone.

Mindset

How you're holding it. A business owner who feels steady makes better calls than one who feels behind.

The point of all four is the same. Fewer moving parts, a clearer line forward, and a business that gets easier and more profitable as it grows.

Work With Me

Three ways to work together.

Senior strategy without putting a senior hire on payroll. I bring the direction and the frameworks. You bring the drive and the execution.

Where momentum builds

The Strategy Partnership

You stop carrying the strategy alone. Every week we sit down with whatever the business needs most -- the call you've been circling, the direction that isn't landing, the thing quietly draining your time -- and you leave knowing what you're doing about it. Nothing waits two weeks for an answer. No cookie-cutter playbook, no generic advice, just the next right move for your business, decided with conviction, every week. You move through the quarter with a senior strategist in the business with you, and the decisions that used to keep you up start getting made with ease.

For owners who want a partner in the business, not a consultant they check in with now and then.

A senior strategist in the business with you, every week
A clear, decided next move at the end of every session
Between-session access when a call can't wait
Weekly 60-minute sessions

$15,000 per quarter

The Strategy Partnership, Lighter Cadence

The same senior partnership, at a pace that leaves more room to execute. We meet twice a month, you work in the stretches between, and the strategy stays current the whole way through. This fits owners who run in longer blocks and want a steady hand on the wheel without the weekly rhythm.

The same senior partnership, at a pace that leaves more room to execute
A clear, decided next move every session
Between-session access when a call can't wait
Two 60-minute sessions per month

$8,000 per quarter

One Session

Ninety minutes on the single thing that's stuck. You bring it, I bring a decade of pattern recognition, and you leave knowing exactly what you're doing about it, with a written recap of the move. If you continue into a partnership, this session credits toward it.

90 minutes on one decision
Written recap with your next move
Credits toward a partnership if you continue

$750

Not sure which one? Start here.

	The Strategy Partnership	Lighter Cadence	One Session
Choose this if	You're in a season of real moves -- growth, a launch, a decision you can't get wrong -- and you want a partner in it every week	The business is steady and you want a senior check-in without the weekly rhythm	You have one specific decision that's stuck and you want it sorted
Rhythm	Weekly, 60 min	Twice a month, 60 min	One 90-min session
Between-session access	Yes	Yes	Not included
Momentum	Compounds fastest	Steady	One clear move
Investment	$15,000/qtr	$8,000/qtr	$750, credits toward a partnership

Most owners who are actively building land on the weekly partnership. It's the pace where nothing sits and waits.

Track Record

A decade of building businesses, not just advising them.

MBA

in Sustainable Innovation, University of Victoria

Two companies

founded and led: Toombs Creative and Marketing Mapped Out

CMO at GMTech

an AI software company

Senior roles

in marketing and business development inside multi-million dollar organizations

$7M+

raised across client campaigns, capital, and major gifts programs

30+ industries

served since 2019

Alexandra Toombs, business advisor and marketing strategist

About

Hi, I'm Alex.

A decade in business development and senior marketing, inside multi-million dollar organizations and alongside owners running businesses of their own. I've built two companies. I have an MBA in Sustainable Innovation. And I've worked across thirty-plus industries, which means I've watched the same handful of problems show up in very different clothing.

What I've learned is that most business owners aren't short on effort or ideas. They're carrying too much at once, with no one to help them see which parts matter. The work I do is sorting that out. Looking at the whole business, finding the gaps and the openings, cutting away everything that isn't earning its place, and putting what's left on a clean line forward.

What people tell me afterward is that they feel steadier. That's the part I like most.

-- Alex

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How It Works

A rhythm, not a project.

Step 01

We start with the whole picture.

Our first session covers how the business actually runs, where you want to take it, and what's genuinely in the way. I ask a lot of questions.

Step 02

We work what's live.

Every session after takes on what's in front of you that week. I bring frameworks and direction. You leave with a clear next move and less noise than you came in with.

Step 03

It compounds.

You do the work between sessions and we pick up from there. Nothing restarts from zero, so the business keeps getting simpler while it gets bigger.

Clients

What working together actually does.

Alex has allowed me to make sense of what felt like chaos and turned it into something fun and profitable. I can confidently say that I can now move forward with ease and enjoyment.

Leah Adams, Willow + Wave

“Alex shows you where to focus your attention so you can focus your efforts. I am confident this investment is equipping me with the skills I need to grow.”

JB

Jessica BuckleyMountain Mama Guiding

“She takes the time to understand MY business, rather than applying cookie-cutter strategies to everyone. She works super fast and is able, and willing, to pivot on a dime when it's needed.”

JM

Jenna McPartlandThe Stand Vegan Cafe

Let's Talk

Let's find out if this is a fit.

Book a call. We'll talk through where the business is, what you're carrying right now, and whether having me in your corner every week would move it. No pitch. If it's not a fit, I'll tell you.