Lindsay Maines is a versatile professional with extensive experience in the fields of journalism, marketing, event production, and digital strategy. She holds a BA in Journalism from Hood College and has studied at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

As a consultant, Maines has worked with brands in industries such as automotive, CPG, retail, private label, and online flash sale sites. Her expertise includes external brand perception evaluation, sponsorship evaluation, sponsorship activation, blogger relations, online community management, cause marketing, event production, social media strategy, SEO, writing, and public speaking. Maines has an interest in growth ventures and maintains category exclusivity for one year post-contract per industry vertical.

Maines is the founder of Women Create Media and has previously worked as a blogger, writer, entrepreneur, business development manager, advisory board member, and principal. She was a consumer advisory board member at Gilt Groupe and an advisory board member at Care.com. Her experience as a journalist provides her with the ability to quickly assimilate diverse organizational structures and channels.

In her consulting work, Maines listens to establish an organization's goals, evaluates the external brand perception and close competition exhaustively, and asks the right questions to get answers that will move the measurable needles of brand benchmarks.