An Engine Room Partners company
About Florida CMO
Florida CMO brings embedded marketing leadership to established Florida companies, connecting business direction, people, partners, and execution through the Engine Room Partners framework.
Connect with Ken SchlachterKen Schlachter · Florida CMO Leadership grounded in business building, sales, operations, and relationships.
Meet Ken Schlachter
Ken’s experience spans manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, senior services, construction, and executive leadership.
His career began in service and operations, advanced into sales with DuPont, and led to founding Contract Resource Group, a manufacturers’ representative and distribution company that grew from a startup into a regional organization.
His work has included building companies, developing sales teams, expanding strategic partnerships, advising business owners, and guiding organizations through growth, operational improvement, and transition.
That background brings a practical perspective to the Florida CMO relationship: understand the business, earn the trust of its people, establish clear priorities, and connect strategy with execution.
Business direction · People · Execution
How Ken approaches the work
Sustainable growth requires people who understand the priorities, systems that support the work, and leadership willing to make decisions.
Learn how the business operates, what customers value, and where growth is constrained. Existing teams, relationships, commitments, and capabilities inform the next decision.
Work alongside owners and leadership teams. Bring the people responsible for sales, marketing, operations, and delivery into the conversation so priorities reflect the realities of the business.
Connect direction with responsibilities, resources, and a repeatable operating rhythm. Make progress visible and resolve the decisions that prevent the work from moving forward.
The platform behind the relationship
Florida CMO is an Engine Room Partners company, led locally by Ken Schlachter. We apply the Engine Room Partners approach to your company’s customers, commercial priorities, people, and market conditions. The method remains consistent while the working plan reflects your business.
Your business has a local leadership relationship supported by a consistent operating framework.
Business context, leadership conversations, team and partner coordination, and responsibility for directing agreed marketing work.
The Marketing Engine Room™, The Engine Room Method©, shared operating standards, and a consistent approach to onboarding and accountability.
Founded by Mark Powers
Mark Powers is the founder of Engine Room Partners and an Embedded Fractional CMO.
Engine Room Partners provides the shared methodology and operating foundation behind its market relationships. That structure connects business direction, marketing leadership, people, partners, systems, execution, intelligence, and performance.
The aim is a marketing function that leadership can direct and evaluate, with clear responsibilities and decisions grounded in evidence.
What the framework means
The operating system connecting business direction, marketing strategy, people, partners, technology, execution, intelligence, and performance.
Clarity, Strategy, Systems, Execution, and Measurement guide how the work is operated and improved.
Your CMO leads approved marketing priorities, coordinates contributors, interprets performance, and brings material decisions to the appropriate business owner.
Start with your business
A 30 minute conversation about your priorities, your current marketing function, and whether Florida CMO is the right fit.
Connect with Ken Schlachter