Marketing Clarity for Founders

What to Do, Track, and Ignore

Why This Matters Now

If you’re in a low-volume, high-margin business with long sales cycles and multiple steps, you’ve probably felt the drain of constantly chasing clients.

The good news? With Ari’s Trust-Based Selling system, you’ll learn how to collapse your entire sales cycle into a single, authentic conversation—so you can stop chasing and start closing.

Presented by Marlena Sarunac

Marlena Sarunac

Marlena Sarunac is a marketing strategist who helps early stage startups in

complex industries turn forgettable products into unforgettable brands. As

cofounder of The Company Advice, a fractional marketing and design studio,

she’s acted as a stealth marketing executive for health tech, fintech, and

insurtech startups navigating inflection points. Before that, she led marketing for

Fortune 100 giants like MasterCard and fast growing startups like Particle Health,

where she built GTM playbooks, scaled pipeline, and reshaped how an entire

industry talked about health data.

Known for her #PlaybookNicely approach, Marlena blends analytics with bold

storytelling to help founders clarify their message, tighten their product

positioning, and build real traction.

She’s not here to dress up pitch decks. She’s

here to make sure your brand lands, sticks, and sells. Whether you’re in stealth

mode or Series B, Marlena brings the clarity and creative firepower to make the

market care.

Champion Leadership Group is a B2B SaaS Scale-up Accelerator that offers SaaS founders access to experts, a proven operating system to drive higher valuation, and a community of growth-minded leaders to support their journey.