Leah Komaiko is a highly creative and strategic marketing and brand expert. Her diverse list of clients includes big corporations like Liz Claiborne, McDonald’s, Disney, Philosophy Skincare, Philips and Mattel as well as major non profits and her passion – successful female entrepreneurs, authors, speakers, consultants, doctors, small businesses (including two that became iconic brands), major non profits, an Olympic Champion and First Lady Hillary Clinton. As a seasoned and successful business owner herself for most of the last three decades, Leah knows that your natural ability to have an authentic marketing message and purpose only keeps getting better and better with the years. Her specialty is helping women business owners 45+ (and companies that want them as their customers) get fast results with customized, right sized strategies and solutions that bring increased visibility, profits and some genuine joy along the journey. Her experience reaches many business categories including books, beauty, cosmetics and skincare, apparel, consumer goods, gifts, health products, business services, technology, the arts, entertainment, and cause-marketing partnerships.
As Marketing Director for the beloved Arcona Skincare and Spa in Los Angeles, Leah designed positioning strategies, content, and media placements that helped boost the boutique brand’s national recognition, distribution and near doubled profits.
Leah has been seen on The Today Show, CNN’s American Morning, NPR and others as well as featured in The Los Angeles Times, People, Nation’s Business and USA Today. She has spoken to audiences around the country.
Leah brings to each client her unique combination of creative and strategic skills she attributes first to her parents who raised her to love and make her living in the arts. But the first masterpiece of art that made Leah’s heart truly pound was the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile as it drove up her street. It had breathtaking architecture and a wonderful character, “Little Oscar.” He gave everyone free mini hotdogs and whistles and told a story about Oscar Mayer’s dream while a jingle played that Leah has never forgotten. And neither has the rest of the world. Leah fell in love at age seven with the synergy of a unique vision, great product, strategy, story, artistic creativity, profits, and human connection. Or what in marketing today is known as branding.
Leah’s signature skill for listening for and cultivating the simple heart and core of an emotion based business story comes first from writing for children of all ages. As the author and marketer of 19 popular and bestselling books for children published by HarperCollins and Random House); Leah learned what it takes to make story authentic, memorable and repeatable. Then, as a best selling memoir author of her story about aging, “Am I Old Yet?” (that Jamie Lee Curtis optioned for television); Leah guest taught and coached over 200 memoir students ages 25 through 80 at UCLA. Here she discovered that like in your marketing, uncovering your voice is more than a nice story – it’s your bottom line.
Finally, having many years back been one of the pioneer women stand-up comics at The Improv in L.A.; Leah learned quickly that in comedy, like in marketing, the audience decides within the first five seconds whether or not you are going to bomb. Also, that some laughter at yourself is essential for survival in business.
Are You Ready for this to be Your Time? Please contact Leah@LeahKomaiko.com.
