ABOUT SEVENTH BEAR

Modern Marketing Guidance for Teams That Want to Work Smarter

We Believe Marketing Should Make Sense Again

Somewhere along the way, marketing got complicated.

Technology made us faster, but not wiser. Teams are buried under tools, trapped in workflows, and measured by output instead of impact.

At Seventh Bear, we help teams slow down just enough to get smart again—to reconnect creativity with clarity, and strategy with execution. Because the problem isn’t that marketing is moving too slowly—it’s that it’s running in too many directions at once.

We call what’s missing valuable friction—the thoughtful tension that sharpens ideas and brings purpose back to the work. Our job is to help you find it again.

What We Do

Seventh Bear provides modern marketing guidance for teams that want to work better—not just harder.

We design systems, strategies, and skills that help your marketing grow wiser over time.

Our work spans four core practices:

• Build: Hands-on consulting to design marketing systems, fix gaps, and get work reliably shipped.
• Guide: Go-to-market strategy, positioning, and messaging your team can actually run.
• Grow: Practical training and coaching that build confidence and lasting capability.
• See: Original research and thought leadership that help leaders spot patterns and make smarter decisions.

Each engagement is collaborative, grounded, and designed to meet teams where they are—whether that’s fixing what’s broken or imagining what’s next.

Who We Are

We’re strategists, storytellers, and systems thinkers who believe marketing is at its best when it’s human.

We’ve guided more than 500 organizations—including 20 of the Fortune 100—through transformation, reinvention, and rediscovery.

We’re not an agency. We’re not a factory. We’re partners in making marketing meaningful again.

Why the Name “Seventh Bear”?

In numerology, the number seven represents wisdom. And the bear—the constellation Ursa Major—always points to the North Star.

That’s what we do: help marketing teams find their true direction and work with purpose.

Robert Rose

For more than 20 years, Robert has helped business leaders balance the art and science of marketing, and tell their story more effectively. For the last decade, Robert has served as a fractional marketing and strategy leader for companies in the technology and media industries, and as a strategic marketing consultant to more than 500 companies, including brands such as Salesforce, SAP, Anthem Insurance, Capital Group, Roche Pharmaceuticals, The Globe and Mail, Informa, and ServiceNow among others. 

Cathy McKnight

Cathy McKnight is the Chief Problem Solver and VP of Strategic Consulting at TCA: The Content Advisory. She was the Founding Partner of Digital Clarity Group. Cathy believes in the importance of collaboration and communities within the enterprise, and between companies and their customers. Cathy works with clients to maximize their engagement,knowledge management, and the opportunity to build relationships with all their customers by finding the right-fit digital content management technology and service provide partner for its implementation.