Nizzi Karai Renaud

Building businesses that grow and leave people better off.

Executive, strategic advisor, and founder working where commercial growth meets human agency and well-being.

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Advisory

What I do

I help founders and leadership teams sharpen their positioning, find their next stage of growth, and say what makes them distinct, clearly and compellingly, to customers, investors, and the public.

My work spans brand strategy, strategic communications, and growth.

In private alpha

What I'm building

PRESCRIBE is a personalized well-being product, grounded in positive psychology and inspired by social prescribing. It helps people answer one question: what can I do to feel better?

The answer arrives as personalized recommendations across media, everyday practices, and human connection. prescribe.live

Track record

Twenty-five years scaling consumer platforms

Zazzle·Etsy·Refinery29·Atari

Most recently Chief Marketing Officer and then Chief Brand Officer at Zazzle, where I built a full-funnel marketing organization and helped scale a global creative marketplace, with a remit that reached trust and safety, content governance, and AI policy.

Earlier, I helped double traffic and marketplace sales at Etsy, led marketing and merchandising at Refinery29, and launched Atari's digital distribution business. My career began on the agency side, across politics, Fortune 500 brands, technology, and nonprofits.

How I work

At the intersection

The best brands, the best leaders, and the best ideas live at the intersection of things most people keep separate.

  • Strategy/soul
  • Data/intuition
  • Pop culture/real psychology
  • Profit/whether anyone is better off

Background

Credentials and frameworks

  • Master of Applied Positive Psychology

    University of Pennsylvania

  • Public Leadership Credential

    Harvard Kennedy School

  • Bachelor's and Master's degrees

    Emerson College

  • Associate Member

    American Psychological Association

Original frameworks. PERMAGAMI, the HAI Score, and Value Integration Theory.

Writing and speaking. Quoted in Forbes, Fast Company, GQ, and Oprah.com. Talks at Harvard Business School, Adobe MAX, and eTail.

Contact

Advisory, PRESCRIBE, speaking, or something new

If you are building where growth, trust, and human well-being meet, or hiring for it, I would love to hear from you.