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KRC Digital provides strategy, training and support as a key part of your team for as long as you need it. Up-skill your team, set up and drive campaigns, develop a marketing or communications strategy, we are a scalable and flexible partner and most importantly, we deliver results.
Brand Forward Bootcamp
What You'll Learn...
You’ll benefit from practical frameworks, lived wisdom, and strategic tools that have been tested in the field and refined in the classroom. It’s a full day of learning grounded in both academic rigour and entrepreneurial insight, offering a uniquely applied learning experience.
Brand Purpose with Rachela Brisindi
Discover the human side of branding by uncovering the vision, values, and leadership voice that bring your brand to life. Rachela will show you how aligning internal purpose with external presence builds trust, consistency, and clarity, while authentic leadership shapes a culture that strengthens the brand from the inside out. Participants will leave with a practical framework to guide decision-making and ensure their brand reflects not just what they do, but what they stand for.
Digital Storytelling with Kelly Rusk
You’ve built your brand, how do you keep it consistent in an ever evolving, ever growing and crowded landscape? Expressing your brand authentically and building connections across the landscape of web, social, email and video can be daunting, but Kelly will inspire you to bring your brand strategy to life through multi-channel digital storytelling and help you build the business case and measure effectively.
Turning Insights into Strategy with Deanna White
You’ll explore your current brand as you walk through the brand audit framework, a data-driven approach that uncovers growth opportunities to deliver measurable results. You’ll leave with a step-by-step guide to evaluate your brand and a fresh perspective with insights to help align your goals, messaging, and strategies with customer expectations.
Three Expert Sessions. One Incredible Day.
Thursday, May 7th, 2026
10 am – 4 pm
Gatineau Golf and Country Club
Join us for a day of discovery designed to elevate your brand from intention to execution. Whether you’re a founder, marketer, or strategist, this bootcamp delivers the clarity, tools, and momentum you need to move your brand forward.
Each powerhouse session is guided by seasoned educators who also run their own successful businesses. This rare blend of academic insight and real-world experience means attendees gain more than just theory.
Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Early Bird – $1250 / Bring a Friend $1050 pp
After March 31, 2026 – $1450 / Bring a Friend $1250 pp
Includes lunch and refreshments
Who Should Attend?
Entrepreneurs and small business owners who are looking to sharpen their brand strategy and stand out in competitive markets.
Marketing professionals and brand managers seeking fresh frameworks for storytelling, auditing, and purpose-driven positioning.
Service-based businesses ready to elevate their brand experience and customer engagement.
Non-profit professionals who want to align their messaging with strategic goals.
Anyone preparing for a rebrand, launch, or growth phase in their business and needing clarity, tools, and expert guidance.
Not Ready for the Full Day Bootcamp?
You can still get direct support. Book a one-on-one consultation with Rachela, Kelly, or Deanna to dive deeper into your brand purpose, storytelling strategy, or audit insights.
Whether you’re refining your brand or launching something new, this is your chance to get personalized guidance from an expert who combines academic and entrepreneurial leadership with hands-on brand strategy.
Book with Rachela to develop your brand purpose.
Book with Kelly for help telling your digital story.
Book with Deanna to conduct a brand audit.
Services
Strategy
Are you ready for scale but don’t know where to start? Need to establish a brand? Embarking on a new digital focused campaign? With deep communications expertise and a broad skillset across comms and marketing, we can help research and build a comprehensive communications, marketing or GTM strategy with concrete objectives and KPIs and a step-by-step implementation plan.
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Training
Up-skill your team: we can work alongside your team and provide 1-on-1 mentoring or we can facilitate group training sessions virtually or in-person. Topics include: audience research techniques, customer journey mapping, digital marketing, SEO, Google/digital ads, social media, content strategy and more.
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Support
Need an interim marketing or comms leader or extra set of hands on your marketing team? We work seamlessly as part of your team for as long as you need us. With a training first approach we aspire to leave your team better off than before we were there and properly document all activities. We can scope out project based help or an ongoing arrangement to meet your needs and budget.
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A history of exceeding results
Take your growth up a level with KRC Digital. Our expertise in strategy and training can help your fast-growth startup or corporate business upskill teams and establish a high-performance brand marketing infrastructure.
KRC Digital is scalable virtual team led by Kelly Rusk in Ottawa, Canada who brings 20 years experience in marketing, communications and advertising. Kelly spent the first five years of her career in early stage startups building marketing from the ground up. Then, over a decade at agency she rapidly expanded her skill set and ability to scale marketing challenges.
As a former partner and agency owner, she developed an executive level understanding of business challenges and growth and has adapted these skills. In 2023 she became a part-time professor in brand management at Algonquin College, teaching courses including project management, developing an innovative mindset and digital & social strategy.
Kelly comes equipped with a smart team and extensive network of subject matter experts to ensure you can receive the best support possible at good value.
Contact us
Not sure where to start? We’re problem solvers first and happy to jump on a quick call to discuss where you are at and what you might need and help you develop a plan to get there. Go ahead and get in touch!