Eric Olsen |Education CMO

Campaigns

The brand half of the performance loop, made real.

Brand spend only earns its place if it lifts everything downstream. These are the ideas I’ve put into market to do that — a phone booth in Manhattan, a national holiday, a new category, and a book that became required reading.

Fusion Academy

2022 — Present · Chief Marketing Officer
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Experiential

Hope is Calling

Built a purple phone booth in the middle of NYC and asked parents why school wasn’t working for them — and what they hoped school could be. The answers became the campaign.

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Rebrand

The School That Changes Everything

A rebrand that plays two ways — a school model that changes everything about traditional education, and the change you’ll see in your own student. Built to speak directly to families of kids with learning differences.

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Podcast

Learning Differently

Launched a podcast to help parents better understand their kids — and to help kids better understand themselves.

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Art of Problem Solving

2020 — 2022 · VP of Marketing
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Earned media

Quanta Magazine profile

Landed a Quanta Magazine profile on our founder, putting a respected math outlet behind the case that problem-solving — not memorization — is what’s missing from education.

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Podcast

Raising Problem Solvers

Built and hosted a weekly show interviewing STEM leaders and educators — a deliberate move to broaden AoPS from a math curriculum company into a trusted voice on raising advanced students.

Helix Education

2015 — 2019 · Head of Marketing
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Category design

The Enrollment Growth Provider category

Designed the category of Enrollment Growth Provider — separating Helix from every other OPM and repositioning the company in the market from an op-ex line item to a primary revenue driver.

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Content & demand

The Enrollment Growth Playbook

Wrote the book on winning enrollment growth in higher ed — then wrote it again when the first edition became required reading on campuses nationwide.

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Interactive

Enrollment Growth Hero video game

Turned our own playbook into a ten-minute interactive game, so admissions leaders could roleplay the enrollment alignment conversations campus success actually depends on.

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Podcast

Enrollment Growth University

Hosted the leading podcast in enrollment growth and higher education marketing — 250,000+ downloads and the category’s default listen.

Ideas are the easy part. Ideas that actually move the number are the hard part.

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