Integrated digital strategy

Clear, confident systems for digital strategy.

Hi, I’m Brian – I help complex organizations connect disconnected or nascent search (SEO, GEO, AEO), content, UX, analytics, experimentation and web strategy into clearer digital systems — so teams can make better decisions and execute with more confidence.

Selected work

Applied digital strategy

A few examples of how I’ve turned fragmented digital challenges into clearer systems, stronger experiences and more scalable ways of working.

Build

Amex GBT – Digital Optimization Pod

Creating the capability, operating structure and shared practices needed to connect disciplines that had previously worked in parallel.

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Transform

Amex GBT 2.0 / MVP

Applying integrated digital thinking to a consequential web experience while balancing customer needs, organizational complexity and delivery constraints.

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How I think

Digital strategy from aligned decisions.

Digital work gets harder when search, content, UX, analytics, experimentation and web strategy are managed as separate problems.

I focus on the connections between them: where signals conflict, where ownership gets fragmented, and where teams need a clearer way to decide what matters next.

The goal is not more activity. It’s a more coherent system for making evidence-based decisions, prioritizing work, and executing with confidence.

Selected evidence

Proof – not noise

Select metrics across digital ecosystems that I’m proud to share.

+ 29.5%

Increase in position-one rankings (H1, Amex GBT, 2025)

3,543

page-one rankings, up from 3,144 in January (Amex GBT, 2025)

+ 437%

AI Overview keyword placements (H1, Amex GBT, 2025)

10 / 15 / 36

brands / markets / subdomains operated across a complex digital ecosystem at one time (Entertainment Cruises, now City Cruises/Experiences)

Brian Walsh
About

I connect the disciplines that shape digital strategy & experience.

My background spans search, content, UX and CRO, analytics, experimentation and web strategy. The common thread is helping teams understand how those disciplines affect one another — then creating a practical system for deciding, prioritizing and moving work forward.

I’m especially interested in complex environments where the challenge is not a lack of ideas, but too many disconnected signals, owners and priorities.