Eric Olsen |Education CMO

About

15 years, five education organizations, one pattern.

Create the category that breaks through the noise, build the in-house team that can execute the playbook, and get to a successful exit or record enrollment year.

Why education

“The schools that win in the next 18 months will have the clearest brand promise and the strongest domain authority of evidence.”

Eric Olsen, education marketing executive based in San Diego

Now

Chief Marketing Officer, Fusion Education Group

Based in

San Diego, CA

Education

MBA, Marketing Analytics — Lewis University
BS, Marketing — Bradley University

Fusion Academy

CMO · 2022 – present

Repositioned the brand around the students Fusion actually serves best, rebuilt the marketing team from the ground up, and put the infrastructure in place to know which parts of the growth engine were actually working — reducing CAC by 30% through full-funnel analytics, media mix modeling, and incrementality testing.

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Art of Problem Solving

VP of Marketing · 2020 – 2022

Took marketing from a one-person function to an eight-person division, while the company doubled its revenue. Built the attribution system that replaced what ad platforms stopped being able to tell us, and used it to grow one product line 4× in eighteen months.

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National University System

VP of Marketing · 2019 – 2020

Grew a PK-6 social-emotional learning program by a million students in six months — the fastest-growing program of its kind in the country — and took a K-12 platform through a digital transition covering 20,000+ schools.

Helix Education

Head of Marketing · 2015 – 2019

Ran growth and brand strategy across a network of college and university partners, lifting partner enrollment 73% year over year. Built and hosted a thought-leadership podcast that ran for five years and a quarter-million downloads.

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Lewis University

Director of Communications · 2010 – 2015

Directed enrollment communications end to end — advertising, web, direct mail — producing the university’s largest incoming class on record.

Areas of expertise

Growth marketing Brand strategy Attribution modeling Lead generation Conversion rate optimization Content marketing Marketing automation AI SEO Public relations

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