traction studio.

Team

A small team of operators.

Everyone here has shipped the thing they advise on. You work with the people doing the work, not an account layer in front of them.

Team / 01

Co-founded by operators.

Product marketing, product strategy, and engineering, each led by someone who's done it at scale. You'll be talking with our co-founders, the people whose names are on the door.

Tania Clarke, Co-founder · GTM & Branding,

Tania Clarke

Co-founder · GTM & Branding

Previously

  • Atlassian
  • Qwilr

Fractional product marketing lead with 12+ years in high-growth B2B SaaS. Positioning, user research and go-to-market.

Elizabeth Griffiths, Co-founder · Product Strategy & Design,

Elizabeth Griffiths

Co-founder · Product Strategy & Design

Previously

  • Ogilvy
  • P&G
  • GE
  • SafetyCulture
  • Campaign Monitor
  • hipages
  • Haast
  • Immutable

AI product leader and former CPO at Haast. 19+ years across product and marketing.

Kailash Chandrasekaran, Co-founder · Engineering,

Kailash Chandrasekaran

Co-founder · Engineering

Previously

  • Immutable
  • hipages

Product and engineering leader with 16+ years, ex-Immutable and hipages. Builds end to end, from AI agents to the products around them.

Team / 02

The studio team.

Consultants who plug into an engagement when the work calls for it. Growth, marketing ops, positioning and go-to-market, run by people who have owned those functions in-house.

Celeste Walker, Product Marketing Consultant · GTM & Positioning,

Celeste Walker

Product Marketing Consultant · GTM & Positioning

Senior product marketing operator with 10+ years in global B2B tech. Grounds positioning and GTM strategy in customer and competitor intel.

Carly Hartshorn, Marketing Consultant · Growth & Ops,

Carly Hartshorn

Marketing Consultant · Growth & Ops

Growth marketer with 6+ years in B2B SaaS tech. Builds AI-powered workflows alongside demand gen channels, campaign strategy and marketing ops.

Team / 03

Our AI trainers.

The people who run our AI training and build days. They sit with your team, in your tools, on the work you're already doing, so everyone leaves having built something.

Teresa Noble, AI Trainer & Consultant,

Teresa Noble

AI Trainer & Consultant

Specialties

  • Operations
  • Process automation

A Northern NSW product coach with a background in service design. She turns complicated, manual processes into simple systems that run on their own.

Kate Pearce, AI Trainer,

Kate Pearce

AI Trainer

Specialties

  • Product strategy
  • Workflow design

A Sydney-based product leader who loves unpacking tricky problems and making the complicated feel simple, even when it isn't. She spent years in matching intelligence and now works one-on-one with leaders and runs product builds at Traction, helping businesses make sense of where AI actually fits.

Ready when you are

Tell us where you're stuck.

Book a 30-minute call. We'll talk through which way in fits, coaching, training, or a build, and you decide. Free, no pressure.

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Bookings open from October 2026