Molly McDermott Walsh is a bold, commercially minded marketing leader and brand strategist with nearly twenty years of experience transforming heritage and design brands.

As the founder of Three Lines Consulting, she partners with values-driven companies to build, scale, and modernize brands while empowering radical alignment across teams.

Known for her ability to modernize without breaking, Molly works with startups, manufacturers, and nonprofits going omnichannel, offering a system-based approach to brand strategy, creative marketing, and organizational infrastructure. She’s a changemaker and thoughtful risk-taker, helping good people build good brands.

Molly’s reputation for collaborative leadership and clear, strategic thinking has led many former colleagues, employees, and creative partners to work with her again and again. She fosters trust, alignment, and momentum—bringing the right people together to turn strategy into action.

With a track record of creating brand partnerships valued at over $10 million, leading DTC relaunches with triple-digit sales growth, and driving global media impact, Molly’s expertise spans luxury, design, and lifestyle. She has led strategic growth for brands such as PANTONE, Farrow & Ball, Thibaut Wallpaper, Zenith Swiss Watch/LVMH, and Hudson Valley Lighting Group, in addition to advising startups like HONEY Postpartum and nonprofits like The Chamber of Mothers.

Beyond her work, Molly is a devoted mother, sister, wife, and advocate for women in business. She finds joy in hiking with her family, training her Belgian Malinois, Augustus, and restoring her 130-year-old Colonial home - layering history with modernity, just as she does in her work.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP & RECOGNITION

• Frequent moderator, The Board bi-annual conference, New York City

• Contributor, The Board Books and ongoing Board Briefings — thought leadership and trend reporting

• Quoted, The Wall Street Journal, on the Pantone Color of the Year program

• Contributing writer, Tinybeans content platform (launching Fall 2026)

• Contributor, Nasdaq, on the importance of brand strategy

• Author, Three Lines (Substack)

• SABRE Award — Pantone Color of the Year, 2016

• Founding Member: CHIEF, 2019 and The Board, 2020
  
  

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Associate Coaching Certificate · International Coaching Federation 2020

Leadership Coaching & Organizational Performance · Rutgers University + Heidrick & Struggles 2020

Danaher Business System: Problem Solving, Crucial Conversations, Visual Project Mgmt. 2013 – 2016

BA, English · Pennsylvania State University 2001 – 2005