Chicago, IllinoisDigital Strategy Leader

Jonathan
Sullivan.

For more than two decades, I’ve led digital strategies that drive growth, performance, and measurable business impact.

Jonathan Sullivan

01 / About

I bridge the gap between innovation and execution.

I’m a digital strategy, experience, commerce, and product leader with more than 21 years of experience shaping human-centered, high-impact digital experiences. My career has spanned Fortune 200 companies and top-tier agencies, giving me a rare blend of strategic vision, technical fluency, and creative instinct.

My work is anchored in digital commerce, product management, UX strategy, marketing optimization, AI, and automation. I lead complex transformations, global teams, and data-driven roadmaps designed to create measurable business growth and customer impact.

02 / How I lead

How I move
business forward.

01

Digital strategy & transformation

I shape customer journeys, business models, enterprise transformation, and omnichannel content strategy.

02

AI for digital strategy

I apply AI to content, personalization, experimentation, asset creation, and workflow automation.

03

Product & technology leadership

I lead digital products, scalable platforms, MarTech integration, data strategy, and measurement.

04

Leadership & operations

I align global teams, stakeholders, and roadmaps around measurable outcomes.

03 / Selected impact

Evidence behind
the strategy.

Transformation matters when it creates measurable customer and business outcomes.

01100+Websites

Kaplan digital ecosystem

Enterprise strategy, architecture, CMS, design system, and product ownership for a multi-year transformation.

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02$500M+Ecommerce Revenue

Ecommerce growth

Digital product, experience, experimentation, and commerce strategy across a major education portfolio.

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0370%Booking Growth

Conversion at scale

Year-over-year growth in online appointment bookings, supporting more than $1B in annual treatment-plan value.

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04AI-nativeProduct Development

From portfolio to product

How I used agentic development to build this production website, its custom publishing tools, connected APIs, and human-reviewed AI automation.

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04 / What colleagues say

Leadership,
in their words.

Perspectives from people who have worked alongside me, reported to me, and partnered with me on transformation.

05 / Latest notes

What has my attention.

Short observations on technology, culture, food, family, and whatever else I’m thinking about.

Threads

A$AP Rocky asked a designer to rework his logo, and instead of quietly securing the job, he posted the DM for clout. Rocky canceled the project. What makes it worse is I actually enjoyed his logo redesign videos. He’s clearly talented, but whew… what a shame. He fumbled a huge opportunity for a moment of clout. 😭 A painful lesson.

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If my MacBook Air M5 supported touch and could use the Apple Pencil I'd be so happy!

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Forgot how much of a presence Lwaxana Troi has on DS9. What begins as her pursuing an uninterested Odo becomes one of the show’s most tender relationships. When they marry in “The Muse,” it may be a strategy to protect her and her unborn child, but Odo’s vows reveal something real. He loves Lwaxana deeply, just not romantically, and she respects that their friendship matters too much to ask him to be someone he isn’t. Beautiful reminder that love does not have to be romantic to be meaningful.

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06 / Beyond work

Curiosity doesn’t clock out.

Based in Chicago, I’m also a proud beagle dad, amateur photographer, and frequent traveler who loves capturing the world through a creative lens. Whether I’m architecting a new digital experience or editing golden-hour shots, I bring the same curiosity, clarity, and care.

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07 / Connect

Let’s build what’s next.

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