Media & speaking
Brianne Dezzutti is a brand and marketing operator with 16+ years across prestige beauty, cannabis, and fitness retail - currently running marketing for a five-location cannabis retailer in Connecticut while building a portfolio of products through HNY-B.
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Brianne Dezzutti is a brand and marketing operator with 16+ years across prestige beauty, cannabis, and fitness retail - currently running marketing for a five-location cannabis retailer in Connecticut while building a portfolio of products through HNY-B.
Brianne Dezzutti is a brand and marketing operator with 16+ years across prestige beauty, cannabis, and fitness retail. She built a 1,400+ influencer network at Kiehl's (L'Oréal), led PR through Curaleaf's 166% growth years, and now runs marketing for a five-location cannabis retailer in Connecticut while building HNY-B.
Brianne Dezzutti is a brand and marketing operator with 16+ years across prestige beauty, cannabis, and fitness retail. At Kiehl's (L'Oréal) she built and ran a 1,400+ influencer network and served on the L'Oréal Agency Selection Committee. She produced Dessange Paris's solo debut at the Cannes Film Festival. At Curaleaf she led PR through 166% year-over-year revenue growth, 150+ launches across 23 markets, and 100+ dispensary openings. She later ran regional marketing for 56 Orangetheory franchise locations and opened 7 retail stores with a team of 5. A Rolling Stone Culture Council member (2024 and 2025), she is based in Austin, TX.
Headshots
Three approved headshots, free to use with coverage. Credit is appreciated, never required.
Talks
Four talks, ready to book as keynotes, panels, or podcast conversations. Each one runs on her own numbers, not borrowed case studies.
Chosen by humans, recommended by machines: how AI search rewrites brand marketing
What generative engine optimization actually is, and the four moves that get a brand cited when the AI writes the answer instead of a results page.
Marketing where marketing is illegal: the regulated-category playbook
How to grow a cannabis brand with no Meta ads, no Google, and a compliance review on every word - and why those constraints build sharper marketers.
From Cannes to cannabis: what prestige beauty taught me about restricted markets
What a 1,400+ influencer network and a Cannes Film Festival debut have in common with a dispensary opening - the lessons that transfer, and the ones that do not.
The retail launch sprint: opening 7 stores in 2 years with a team of 5
The six-week retail launch playbook - what a small team can actually ship, in what order, and what breaks first when the timeline gets real.
Talent, partnerships & red carpet
Sixteen years of celebrity, creator and cultural work - the high-risk, high-visibility end of brand marketing.
What she can speak to
- Cannabis and regulated-category marketing - 16 US markets, compliance-first growth.
- Generative engine optimization and AI search - getting brands cited by answer engines.
- Influencer systems at scale - the 1,400+ creator network built at Kiehl's.
- Retail launches - 7 stores opened, 100+ dispensary openings supported.
- Loyalty programs - built from zero.
- High-risk and restricted-category marketing - cannabis, alcohol, supplements, aesthetics: growing a brand when the ad platforms say no.
- Celebrity and creator partnerships - six spokesperson campaigns, seeding programmes, and red-carpet publicity.
To be precise: these are outlets where Brianne secured coverage for the clients and brands she represented as a publicist and marketer - earned placements, not personal profiles.
Press contact
For interviews, quotes, podcast bookings, and speaking: bri@hny-b.consulting. Based in Austin, TX; available for remote recordings same week and travel with notice.
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