About Helen
An entrepreneur, business & marketing strategist, writer, and teacher, Helen Hunter Mackenzie helps creative women entrepreneurs do their most meaningful work, get paid well for it, and create products & services their clients love.
Helen spent more than two decades as a corporate manager in the world of med tech startups, helping bring new medical technologies to market, then founded her own business & marketing consultancy in 2012, and later launched and ran a successful digital copywriting agency for five years alongside her primary business.
She has helped many of today’s top transformational leaders develop, market, and launch online programs enrolling in the thousands – as well as helping countless entrepreneurs create and develop their online presence and messaging. She’s also created and taught several of her own successful online courses on both marketing and personal transformation.
As a business and marketing strategist, Helen helps clients develop purposeful products, sustainable business strategies, and harm-free marketing that invites their prospective customers to embark on a journey with them leading to profound transformation. She has a passion for advancing others’ messages through sturdy marketing frameworks and clear, authentic marketing content.
By also weaving metaphysical teachings like A Course In Miracles into everyday experiences so they are relevant to daily life, Helen's profound-yet-practical brand of coaching, teaching, and writing have impacted folks across the globe. She’s been called a "modern day Joseph Campbell with a twist" for her unique approach to guiding others to self-realization and permanent, miraculous transformation in their business and lives.
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A bit about my background, credentials, and influences.
I’ve always been fascinated by the human condition; from as young an age as I can remember I’ve wanted to understand what “makes people tick” and have studied the human mind, consciousness, and philosophy.
To that end, though I’m almost entirely self-taught (by choice), I did complete comprehensive training as a coach in Strategic Intervention and Human Needs Psychology.
I was raised in an evangelical missionary home, and our family lived in Tehran, Iran when I was a young girl. While the vividness of those memories has faded over the years, and I am not a religious person as an adult, I’m undoubtedly influenced by my upbringing and experiences with the church and the mission field.
A deeply sensitive child, I had an invisible friend (still do, if you count the divine beings with whom I communicate on a regular basis) and wanted to spend most of my time alone, away from noise and chaos and with my nose buried in a book (still do). I prefer calm, serene environments without stomping, slamming, or the noise of TV sets or mobile devices on speaker, and work to create that kind of environment within my business and brand as well.
I have a love of wit and a fairly irreverent sense of humor, which I don’t think comes across that well or often in my writing — but you’ll experience it if you work with me or get to know me personally in any capacity!
I spent over 20 years in the med tech/biotech field — primarily managing clinical trials in support of product marketing approval. This has led me to be a data-driven decision-maker in many ways and helps me be an effective voice of reason for my clients (I’m the person who says, “Let’s look at the numbers rather than try to interpret this with emotion.”).
My marketing and business education began in 1997, when I started my first “side gig” and quickly realized that knowing how to define and communicate a value proposition would be crucial to getting any customers (however, I did not get any customers from that first gig, nor the second, nor any of the countless businesses I started between then and 2012). You could say my marketing expertise is extremely hard-won, and at this point has become a part of my DNA.
Since successfully launching my current business in 2012, I’ve created and developed several online courses, some of which have enrolled in the hundreds of students, so I have the “in the trenches” experience to deeply understand the challenges and gifts of running an expertise-based, transformational business.
My intention is always to both advise and educate my clients. I’m a teacher at heart, and I don’t enjoy telling people what to do — so instead I do my best to help them understand why I recommend a particular action.
Some of my primary influences include:
Byron Katie and her clear and simple “Work” that helps investigate and dissolve painful thoughts that keep people stuck in the past and living in their stories.
Joe Dispenza and his science-based efforts to understand and harness the power of the mind and consciousness in shaping our reality.
David Spangler and his brilliant methods of incarnational, world-creating manifestation.
Kenneth Wapnick and his substantive, shining expositions of the teachings in A Course in Miracles.
Neville Goddard and his interpretations of the mystical and metaphysical teachings of the Bible (vs. the literal translation of them that is so commonly accepted within the church of today).
Business thinkers and leaders like Peter Drucker, Michael Gerber, Jim Collins, Andy Grove, Clay Christensen, Steve Blank, Simon Sinek, and others who have built, studied, taught about, and/or managed organizations to greatness without sacrificing integrity or excellence.