Summary
Lauren Brown is a strategic product marketing leader who blends nine years of experience in digital analytics, human-centered research, and retail online innovation at Apple with an unusual background as a professional ballet dancer. Trained in psychology at Duke and dual-degree MBA/MS in Design Innovation from Northwestern, she excels at translating behavioral insights and design thinking into go-to-market strategies and growth initiatives. Her career arc spans agency-side neuromarketing research and brand strategy—where she drove global segmentation and won major pitches—to startup growth work at MIT Media Lab’s Curious Learning, where she scaled acquisition and open-source learning experiments. At Apple she progressed from MBA intern to Manager of Retail Online Innovation & Strategy, leading cross-functional programs that marry product, design, and consumer neuroscience-informed insights. A former OpenIDEO & UBS Higher Ed Challenge winner and state/national yoga champion, she brings creative discipline and uncommon empathy to product and marketing problems. Colleagues describe her as a multidisciplinary connector who consistently converts curious experiments into measurable business impact.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology at Duke University
Kellogg School of Management
McCormick School of Engineering - MS Design Innovation, McCormick School of Engineering - MS Design Innovation at The Graduate School at Northwestern University
High School, High School at Professional Children's School