Business development for creative entrepreneurs who refuse to conform
vision strategy wholeness
Weird Specialty works at the rare intersection of: private board member, therapist for creative entrepreneurs, and management consultant, helping build businesses that honor both vision and bottom line.
When creative entrepreneurs access support that honors all of who you are, it builds sustainable success that serves your highest creative and personal goals. Designers, artists, creative directors, writers, practitioners, performers; we work with people who've built (or are building) something real on their own terms.
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Weird Specialty serves creative entrepreneurs throughout the US and globally via thoughtfully structured in-person and remote partnerships. Wherever you are: if this resonates, we'll make it happen.
AS YOUR PRIVATE BOARD MEMBER
The strategic advisor and sounding board you've been missing. You need someone who sees the whole picture and helps you make the decisions that keep you up at night. We develop business models that serve your vision, identify revenue opportunities that feel aligned, and make critical decisions about what to say yes to and what to let go.
AS YOUR DEPTH-INFORMED ADVISOR
Where psychological insight becomes strategic advantage. We dig into the unconscious patterns running your business from the shadows, helping you understand how these patterns influence your business decisions. Then we transform them, turning hidden obstacles into sources of creative power and differentiation.
AS YOUR MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
Beautiful visions need grounded implementation and infrastructure. We build operational systems that work with your creative process, not against it. Systems that actually stick because they're built for how you actually work, not how entrepreneurs are “supposed” to work.
OUR FOUNDER
A designer by trade, Gretchen Jones combines keen aesthetic insight and expression skills with polished business acumen. An award-winning fashion director with an MBA from the University of the Arts London and winner of Project Runway S8, she is now a business strategist and advising partner to founders and creative leaders around the world.
Weird Specialty—Gretchen's advisory practice, studio, and salon—works exclusively with contemporary, values-driven creative entrepreneurs. She uses her skills to guide and inspire thinking differently—extinguishing bias, squashing subjectivity, and illuminating intention for the creative class that makes our world a beautiful, rewarding place to live.
ABOUT GRETCHEN