Leadership

Previously co-founded LIFE and Twelve agencies (2006-2015) working with clients like Nestlé, GlaxoSmithKline, Coke, Whitbread, and Molson Coors, before both agencies were acquired by Communisis PLC.

Maniacally evangelical about the power of brand to transform business. An uncompromising leader. An ungentlemanly racer. Desperately trying to put off being old.

Founding partner with 15+ years of experience in global brands. A rare chimera made up of equal parts creative chops, strategic muscle and sixth sense. Capable of turning her talents to diverse categories ranging from immunotherapy to incontinence.

Side hustles include new mumming, wannabe-interior-designering, buying books but not getting round to reading them, and margarita connoisseurship.

Experienced strategy lead on everything brand and marketing related, whether it’s positioning new brands for technology start-ups, defending service businesses from commoditisation or devising revolutionary product launches for global healthcare giants.

Stares down blank sheets of paper for fun. Uncommonly unflustered. Occasionally Swiss. Frequently a design snob.

A creative unicorn who champions design as an expression of business strategy, not as fluffy bs. Has driven the output for integrated campaigns and brand transformation programmes across a host of multi-national companies.

Eschews the typical ‘creative’ caricature to bring signal, not noise, and instead satisfies her artistic whims by being a chronic redecorator.

Business leader, people leader, entrepreneur, agency co-founder and post-sale PLC navigator. A voice of reason, a bringer of cohesion, responsible for driving business growth through identifying new market opportunities and improving existing client relations.

Loves skiing almost as much as he loves his wife and kids.     

Has forgotten more about servicing global clients than most people will ever know, so much so he wrote a book about it. Deeply intuitive on what’s important to all stakeholders across a business, and what it takes to develop a commercially advantageous partnership - not just a working relationship.

Also a dabbling pianist, covert pool shark and friend to the great outdoors.

Founder of Elmwood, “the World’s most effective design consultancy”. Former chair of the DBA, past member of the RSA Council and skills chair of the Design Council. He’s visiting ‘Professor of Innovation’ at Huddersfield University and was awarded an OBE in the 2011 Queen’s New Year Honours list.

MBA-qualified partner to entrepreneurs and leadership teams, driving transformation, growth, effectiveness & efficiency across an organisation’s lifecycle. Empowers positive change and future success through identification of actionable opportunities.

Also an executive coach as well as Board Trustee for the charity Bliss.