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brian forknerAbout
Hi. I'm Brian
I’m a fractional product leader with 20+ years of experience blending product marketing, UX, and growth strategy. I specialize in helping lean teams, conservation-focused orgs, and AI-forward startups solve big problems quickly, without hiring a full-time product team. If you’re launching something new, exploring ways to incorporate AI tools and workflows, or struggling to connect strategy to execution, I can help.
I Help
- Move faster without breaking things
- Develop and communicate vision
- Create cross-functional alignment
- Increase adoption, engagement, and retention
- Build products, orgs, and operations that scale
Hands On
- Product Strategy & Roadmapping
- UX & Product Design Leadership
- GTM Alignment, Activation, and Retention
- Product & Growth Marketing
- Product Org Setup
Outside of Work
When I’m not wearing my product hat, you’ll likely find me traveling the world, in the kitchen honing my amateur cooking skills, or somewhere off-grid, completely unplugged doing things like rowing rivers, casting flies, and backcountry skiing to escape the crowds.
always learningeducation
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2025
Reforge
OnGoing: AI, PM, Marketing -
2024
Product School
MicroCert: AI / Adaptive AI Products -
2023
American Canoe Association
Cert: Swift Water Rescue -
2021
Reforge
Advanced Growth Series -
2020
Reforge
Retention & Engagement
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2018
General Assembly
Cert: Product Management -
2012-14
Google
Certs: AdWords, SEO, GA, GTM -
2010-12
W3 Schools
Certs: MySQL, HTML, HTML5, CSS3 -
2007
RMCAD
Certificate: Web Design -
1999-2003
RMCAD
BFA: Animation & Interactive Tech
Tech Stackskills
- AI TOOLS
- Adobe Firefly
- Anthropic
- ChatGPT
- Dall-e
- GoogleVids
- Granola
- MidJourney
- Notebook LLM
- Runway
- Typeface AI
- TypeSet AI
- CMS & ECOMM
- BigCommerce
- Contentful
- ContentStack
- Fareharbor
- Laravel Nova
- Magento 1 & 2
- Shopify
- Statamic
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- DATA & SEO TOOLS
- Answer The Public
- GetStat
- Google Analytics & GA4
- Google Search Console
- Google Trends
- Heap Analytics
- MixPanel
- Screaming Frog
- Segment CDP
- SEM Rush
- Tableau
- DESIGN TOOLS
- Adobe Animate
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Captivate
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe XD
- Figma
- Sketch
- MANAGEMENT
- Asana
- BaseCamp
- ClickUp
- Confluence
- Jira
- Slack
- Trello
- LANGUAGES
- CSS
- HTML
- HTML5
- SQL
- TypeScript
- MARKETING
- Facebook Business Manager
- Google Adwords
- Google My Business
- LinkedIn Business
- MNTN SteelHouse
- TikTok Ads Manager
- TypeForm
- STRATEGY
- Balsamiq
- LucidChart
- Miro
- CRM
- Close IO
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- OFFICE & SECURITY
- 1Pass
- Excel
- Google Docs
- Last Pass
- MS Word
- Nord Pass
- Powerpoint
- MARTECH
- Braze
- Constant Contact
- Klaviyo
- Mail Chimp
- Mail Gun
- SendGrid
- DEVELOPMENT
- GitHub
- JetBrains
- Postman
- Visual Studio Core