Amber Ragland

Founder and Directo of Strategy and Thought Leadership

Founder • Marketing Strategist • Brand Architect • Thought Leadership Expert

Amber Ragland is a powerhouse marketing strategist, award-winning brand architect, and the visionary behind Influence Marketing & PR. With more than 15 years of experience leading multi-brand portfolios, building high-performance teams, and driving revenue through intentional, story-forward marketing, Amber has earned a reputation for transforming organizations from the inside out.

A lifelong student of the industry, Amber is obsessed with staying ahead of the curve, diving into emerging marketing technologies, AI-powered workflows, and the rapidly evolving landscape of media, influence, and customer behavior. If it’s new, innovative, or shaking up the industry, Amber is already testing it, mastering it, and building it into a scalable strategy for her clients.

Her career spans corporate, nonprofit, healthcare, oil & gas, legal, and financial sectors, giving her a rare 360° understanding of how brands grow, sustain momentum, and command trust. As the Director of Marketing, Communications & Development for Riordan Clinic, Amber oversaw a $500K+ portfolio, revitalized multiple brands, secured $1.7M+ in gifts through storytelling and strategic campaigns, elevated the clinic’s podcast from 14K to 92K monthly listeners, improved patient retention through experience design, and built the organization’s first custom GPT model to unify messaging and streamline communications.

Before that, Amber led major brand transformations for law firms, launched dozens of campaigns for national financial organizations, and founded her own agency, long before “fractional CMO” was a buzzword, delivering high-impact work that positioned executives, physicians, and nonprofit leaders as respected thought leaders in their fields.

In 2025, Amber and her daughter Brooklynn were honored with the Wichita Business Journal Marketing Award, celebrating their strategic, creative, and community-driven contributions to the industry.

At Influence Marketing & PR, Amber specializes in thought leadership, AI-integrated strategies, brand development, funnel design, community growth, and marketing systems that convert. Her superpower is seeing around corners, anticipating opportunities, spotting gaps, and creating marketing engines that perform consistently and predictably.

When she’s not building brands or exploring the latest trends in marketing innovation, Amber is happiest surrounded by her very big, very lively family. She loves painting, all things dance, and spending time with her two daughters (Brooklynn and Cydnee), her three bonus children, seven grandchildren, and four fur babies. She also loves traveling and exploring new experiences with her partner, Jack, her favorite adventure companion.