June 11, 2024 Invest in beautiful web design for your brand value Musing about The Favorite Website Awards (TheFWA), and beautiful web design as owned media for brands. I began my strategy career on the digital…
June 10, 2024 I’m not a [buzzword] expert I have frequently battled with the idea of advertising I’m a [buzzword] specialist. Today, I could be an AI strategist, whatever that means. Friends…
June 7, 2024 Perceiving different shades and textures of colours “Ancient cultures have more developed and nuanced sensitivities to colour than contemporary societies. In all areas, there is not just one colour black, but…
June 4, 2024 Alleviating feelings of uncertainty As an independent consultant, I tend to have quite a bit of uncertainty over the frequency of my work and income; those famed feast and…
May 14, 2024 Details layers of a strategy highway I had the pleasure of attending Will Humphrey’s APG online conference yesterday, set to Talking Heads’ song Once in a Lifetime questions. The talk…
September 20, 2023 Introduction to semiotic brand analysis I started teaching a graduate course at the American University of Paris titled Brands & Belief. I’ll do my best to share content from…
August 9, 2023 A year of magic and insights at Disneyland Paris I’ve been rekindling with an interest in theme parks and roller coasters in the past year, which started as I went to Disneyland Paris…
April 24, 2021 Go Luck Yourself with Andy Nairn, CSO and co-founder of Lucky Generals For this episode of the podcast I’m joined by Andy Nairn, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder of Lucky Generals, an award winning creative agency…
September 2, 2020 On the Value of Thinking for Businesses – with Comic Strips (Strategy Series Part 2) This is the second post in a series about (independent) strategy consulting, you can go to the introduction here for context, or the first…
August 22, 2020 Introduction to a series thinking about (independent) strategy consulting Over the past few months, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I spent time thinking about my work, the services I offer more…
