I lead creative and design teams that connect strategic insights with creative execution to build cohesive, consistent global brand identities.
Brand Strategy · Brand Systems & Governance · Creative Direction · Design Leadership · Integrated Campaigns · Visual Identity · Storytelling · Digital Experience · Design Operations · Team Building · Stakeholder Influence
That corporate work life
Advisory Board Member
Superside
Advising and consulting on product and platform innovation, bringing my in-house brand and creative leadership experience to help shape future creative services.
Design Manager, Brand
Booking.com
Leading a multidisciplinary design team partnering closely with Brand, Marketing and Product to deliver a cohesive, high-quality brand experience.
Own and evolve brand design systems and component libraries to make campaign delivery faster, more consistent and easier to scale.
Translate brand strategy into strong briefs and creative direction, balancing craft excellence with commercial and business goals.
Build clear, cross-functional ways of working (playbooks, critiques, stakeholder reviews) that lift craft standards and strengthen trust.
Recruit, coach and develop the creative team, setting clear goals, resource allocation and regular feedback sessions.
Head of Creative
Worley Group
Built and led a global creative team, with direct management of 7 and influence of a global creative network, delivering consistent, high-quality brand work.
Led multiple brand identity refreshes, scaling asset production across 3 master brands and 42 sub-brands.
Created and governed global brand guidelines and toolkits, reducing off-brand work and speeding up campaign localisation across regions.
Acted as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on brand architecture, employer brand, and acquisition and retention communications.
Raised creative standards through new review processes, accessibility-led governance, and hands-on creative initiatives across global teams.
Pride Network Chair
Worley Group
Led the global LGBTIQ+ employee network, representing the group across company-wide D&I programs and external partnerships.
Delivered Pride campaigns spanning editorial, interviews, thought leadership and global webinars.
Created a Pride visual identity and led the development of practical resources to support gender transitioning at work.
Established an LGBTIQ+ mentoring program and global steering committee across 15 offices, contributing to improved WorkPlace Pride benchmarking.
Senior Brand Advisor
WorleyParsons
Managed an in-house design team and built regional creative networks to deliver consistent brand work.
Brand advice to global communications and marketing leads on campaign strategy, creative positioning and brand application.
Designed and oversaw high-impact presentations, scalable brand templates, infographics, social campaigns and video content.
Ran cross-functional workshops to align sales, marketing and subject-matter experts on brand storytelling.
Graphic Design and Social Media Coordinator
Advisian
Created on-brand presentations, infographics, brochures, editorial and website content with a strong focus on consistency and quality.
Integrated digital and social channels into the marketing mix, producing content, copy and basic analytics to guide ongoing improvement.
The study days
MiniMBA
Marketing Week / Mark Ritson
Strategic frameworks to shape brand direction and positioning.
Using insight to inform brand strategy and creative decision-making.
Segmentation, targeting, and positioning thinking to clarify brand focus and competitive advantage.
Aligned brand objectives with commercial outcomes.
Strengthened ability to evaluate, prioritise, and defend high-impact brand and creative.
Lions Creative Academy
Cannes Lions, Festival of Creativity
Intensive creative leadership and craft mentorship from top creative directors and exposure to latest trends and thinking in advertising.
Focus on idea generation, pitching and adapting creative practice for emerging tech.
Accelerated networking and critique culture: practice presenting work, defending ideas and learning from festival juries and mentors.
Brand Management
University of London / London Business School
Building brand-led culture, linking all aspects of the business to ensure brand is delivered by the whole company.
Brands frameworks to align brand purpose with commercial outcomes.
AWARD School
Communications Council, Australia
12-week creative intensive focused on idea generation, copywriting and art-direction. practical briefs across film, social, digital, print and experiential.
Live critiques from top agency Creative Directors, to improve ideation and execution.
Emphasis on craft, storytelling and attention to creative standards.
Master of Creative Advertising
Queensland University of Technology
Creative thinking, campaign planning and message strategy - with a focus on ideation, briefing, execution and the evaluation of creative work.
Skills in copywriting and art direction, strategy and insight
Bachelor of Design
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
Core visual communication skills including branding, typographic systems, image making, information design, visual storytelling for multi-channel design.
Studio practice and project based learning with a focus on socially responsive and sustainable design.