Join the collective / I want to go independent
Ready to go independent?
Go independent, without going it alone.
You've spent your career leading inside studios, brands or agencies. You've delivered work at the highest level, built teams and run the business, for someone else. You've dreamed of going out on your own. What's stopped you isn't the work. It's building the business around it, and doing that alone.
Rebel Collective is where you take that step, with senior peers and a brand behind you from day one.
You'll be independent. You run your business as a fractional leader. The collective gives you the support to launch it and grow it.
No cost to join. No fees to stay.
Now and forever.
Why now
Studios, in-house creative and marketing brand teams and agencies are being asked to do more with fewer people, and AI is changing how all of it gets done. What they need now are experienced leaders who can step in quickly, help them reimagine how they work, and deliver the work in their specialty, when it's needed.
That's the opportunity. Rebel Collective is bringing together fractional leaders and specialists for exactly that moment. Your experience has never been more valuable, on your own terms.
Who belongs here
You've led at a senior level — seven to ten years or more in your specialty — in studios, in-house creative and marketing brand teams, or agencies, and you know how the business really runs.
You've dreamed of going independent, and you're ready to make it real.
You use AI every day in your work, and you can point to real examples of how it's changed the work, for you and for the teams or clients you've supported.
You'd rather rethink a business challenge than patch an outdated way of working.
You want peers who've done it, not a course that tells you how.
This isn't a place to start your career. It's a place to go independent.
What you keep
Every client you win is yours.
You set them, with peers to help you get them right.
You lead the work and the client relationship, from the first call to the final delivery.
Your methods, your schedule, your specialty. We never manage how you work.
Build your own reputation from day one, with a bigger one behind it.
What the collective gives
Help getting started.
We help you set up your business, price your work and strategize how to win your first clients.
Mentors who've done it.
Members who've gone independent before you, ready to share what worked.
A brand bigger than your own.
An @wearerebelcollective.com address and a profile on the site.
Marketing that works for you.
We put your expertise in front of new clients.
Priority referral opportunities.
When a client needs your specialty, the collective brings you in.
Go after bigger work.
Pitch with the Rebel brand and a team behind you.
A bench and a peer network.
Senior peers to bring into your work, pressure-test ideas with, and build new offers alongside.
Operational support.
Contracts, billing and collections, handled, so you can focus on the work.
Tools to win and run the work.
Branded templates, pitch and proposal support, and shared project and AI tools.
AI training and methods.
Exclusive to the network.
What we ask
The bar is high, and it stays high.
Apply to join.
If you're a senior leader who's ready to go independent, we welcome you to apply, and we hope you will. What makes Rebel anything but ordinary is the members in our collective, and they're beside you from day one. If this is the work you want to be doing, and these are the people you want to be doing it with, apply to join.
Apply nowQuestions before you apply, or about the process? join@wearerebelcollective.com.