The Growth Studio is a global, remote-first advisory practice helping founder-led creative agencies grow into resilient, profitable, people-centered businesses — without burning out teams, breaking culture, or losing creative excellence.

We specialize in the most fragile stage of agency growth: the transition from a 10–40 person firm to a 50–150+ person organization, when complexity outpaces systems and founders risk becoming bottlenecks instead of catalysts. Our work blends strategy, operations, growth, leadership, and people systems to turn creative firms into scalable organizations designed to endure.

Who We Work With

We partner with founder-led creative, digital, brand, design, content, and innovation agencies typically in the $2M–$20M revenue range. Our clients are navigating growth spurts, plateaus, restructures, international expansion, leadership transitions, or the need to professionalize operations while protecting culture and quality.

What We Do

Agency Operating System Design
We build the internal infrastructure agencies need to scale with confidence — including organizational design and leadership structures, role clarity and governance models, financial frameworks and capacity planning, and operating rhythms, dashboards, and performance systems.

Founder & Leadership Advisory
We support founders and senior teams through critical inflection points, including founder role evolution, partnership dynamics, leadership development and succession, executive alignment, decision velocity, and maturity transitions.

Growth, Brand & Revenue Architecture
We help agencies unlock sustainable growth through brand positioning and go-to-market strategy, new business pipelines and partnership models, service portfolio evolution and pricing, and venture-building and new revenue lines.

People Systems & Culture at Scale
We design people-first growth engines, including hiring and leveling frameworks, compensation and performance systems, career pathways and learning models, engagement and motivation design, and distributed, global, and hybrid team structures.

What Makes Us Different

We are operators, not consultants. We’ve built and scaled creative organizations from inside the work. We design systems where culture drives performance, not the other way around. We integrate growth and operations instead of fixing one while breaking the other. We work founder-to-founder as true partners, not vendors. And we build lightweight, real-world frameworks teams actually adopt.

Founders

Jessica Lauretti, Co-Founder
Jessica is a creative executive and growth leader with deep expertise in launching brands, building ventures, and scaling mission-driven organizations at the intersection of creativity, technology, and impact. She has held senior leadership roles at CAPE, Webby Media Group, Verizon Media (RYOT), and Purpose, and has collaborated with Airbnb, Spotify, The New York Times, VICE, and global nonprofits. She built and scaled The Anthem Awards into the world’s largest social impact awards platform, relaunched Airbnb Experiences in Southern Europe, and built international revenue organizations across 70+ markets. Jessica brings rare strength across brand, growth, partnerships, venture creation, and go-to-market strategy — helping creative firms turn vision into scalable businesses.

Hannah Kreiswirth, Co-Founder
Hannah is a people-centered operator and organizational systems leader who spent nearly a decade as Partner and COO of AREA 17, leading its growth into a globally respected design and technology firm across the US and Europe. Her work spans organizational design, people systems, operating models, financial frameworks, and leadership development, helping teams scale without sacrificing clarity, care, or performance. Previously, she helped build Purpose’s creative agency arm and mission-driven organizations across culture and civic engagement. Hannah also serves on the global board of SoDA and advises organizations on future-of-work models through her Life-Life Harmony framework.

Our Philosophy

Agencies don’t fail from lack of talent. They fail from lack of systems. Culture isn’t a perk — it’s infrastructure. Growth without design creates fragility. The best creative work happens inside healthy organizations. We help agencies build companies that perform and endure.

How We Work

We partner through ongoing advisory retainers, leadership offsites and growth intensives, 90-day operating system builds, founder coaching, and fractional COO, Chief Growth, or Chief People engagements.