Offering
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Let’s work together to (re)position you or your brand. And let’s craft a strategic direction that enables you to belong strong with your chosen audiences and customers. I’m a culturally literate, entrepreneurially-minded strategist. I won’t bamboozle you with charts and frameworks, rather I’ll collaborate with you to design a beautiful future that is both achievable and actionable. No indecipherable decks, just a blueprint for interstellar brilliance on Earth and beyond.
NB: I have amazing research & specialist partners where needed.
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Let’s work together to build you or your brand through artistry. My weapons of choice are words and story, but I’m also great at creative platforms, formats, campaigns, and ‘innovations’ (aka weird shaped projects.) I’m immersed in entertainment & culture, and have (co)created successful campaigns, podcasts, apps, websites, experiences, music videos, feature docs, and much more besides. I’m your Swiss-Army Knife creative collaborator, sharp as a blade, useful as teeny scissors.
NB: I have an amazing partner network across all forms of cultural production - film, audio, social, events, merch, tech, spaces, you name it.
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Let’s work together to craft a compelling and comprehensive pitch for your business, product, or artistic idea that belongs strong for your chosen audience, be that customers, employees, partners, investors, distributors, fans, or collaborators. A pitch that gets hearts pounding, wallets opening, and you off to the races.
NB: I have amazing partners for financial & business modelling and access to a large pool of investors.
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Let’s work together to build creative, strategic, and cultural partnerships that lead to exponential growth for all concerned. I get a kick out of joining unexpected dots and building unexpected collaborations that open new spaces and create new mind-bending opportunities.
NB: Over 30+ years, I’ve built a super cool and fascinating network across entertainment & media, art & design, science & innovation, brand & advertising, democracy & social impact, health & spirituality, lifestyle & events, research & academia, and investing & entrepreneurship.
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Life’s tough right?! Sounds like you need support so you and/or your business can belong strong. I work in either a retained advisory capacity for a set number of days per month, or plug into a specific problem or opportunity to provide fresh perspective and energy. I bring worldly wisdom, business insight, creative energy, and a strong sense of the emergent, all delivered with lashings of empathy.
NB: If I don’t feel I can help you with your business problem, I can hook you up with someone in my network who can. For Mentorships, I work through 20/20 Levels, Livity, and, occasionally, D&AD.
It takes a village
It takes a village
I have a hugely diverse and influential network of co-pilots and compadres.
Experts from the worlds of entertainment & media, art & design, science & innovation, brand & advertising, democracy & social impact, health & spirituality, lifestyle & events, research & academia, investing & entrepreneurship.
Everything I do is a collaboration, sometimes formally, sometimes informally. Always drawing on and respecting collective wisdom. Always crediting where credit is due.
Clients & talent worked with
What people are saying
“Andy's input had been invaluable in helping position us and our brands in a noisy and challenging market. He got to the heart of us effortlessly, and skillfully wove all that's great about our heritage and prestige into all that's exciting and contemporary. He is a true master of his craft.”
Joe McKenna, CEO, Denmark Street Investments Jersey Ltd.
“Andy moves through the world with a wonderfully calm and welcoming demeanor, he’s 100% jargon free and more than anything he cares deeply for the work he does and the people he does it for. It’s been such a joy to work with him on our recent re-positioning. He has the kind of mind that connects the most un-suspecting references to create entirely new ideas that propel you forward into new spaces you previously would never have imagined. We are already looking forward to our next collaboration. Thank you Andy!”
Ben Gallagher, Co-founder, Studio Beyond
“Andy is one of the all time great people. An incredible creator of worlds and stories with a truly original perspective. Working with him is always a joyous adventure - feet on the ground, reaching for the stars.”
Katherine Templar-Lewis, Co-founder, Kinda Studios, Co-presenter, Uncertainty Experts
“Andy is a brilliant creative and strategic collaborator and has been for years. He’s empathetic and patient with artists and can get the best out of them. He also knows a shit tonne of people who trust and like him across many different fields. That’s so useful. His network and frames of reference are ridiculously deep and broad.”
Marc Picken, Founder, West Management (Massive Attack, Soulwax, Richard Russell, Young Fathers)
"Brilliant mind, massive heart and seriously networked is what makes Andy an incredible asset for any project, especially as he combines all of that with a very grounded finger on the pulse of the emergent, and a truly gifted and ethical sense of style and story."
Tom Fortes-Mayer, Therapist, Creator, Freemind Experience
“Andy is my go to creative strategic partner. He is both interesting and interested. In an artificial world he brings the joy back into working with humans.”
David Alberts, Co-founder, Answers Are Out There & BeenThereDoneThat
“I love working with Andy. He has a great sense of how film development and production works but he’s interested in the wider context and pushing the envelope. That said there’s also a simplicity to what he can do too - he brims with ideas, he’s got a nose and appetite for good story and writes very well. He’s also brilliant with people, can spot talent and has great taste.”
Amanda Boyle, Writer & Film / TV Director, Chloe, True Horror, Sirens, Skins
“Andy is part strategist, part creative, and part executive producer in the TV & film sense of the word, i.e. creative doing. He has a big and beautiful brain, compassion in spades, and he is 100% translator. Through empathy and insight, he has the ability to translate between genders, backgrounds, cultures, hierarchies, disciplines and industries. A rare and hugely necessary skill in today’s world.”
Chaka Sobhani, President & Global CCO DDB Worldwide
“Andy combines intellectual and strategic rigour with creativity to come up with unconventional solutions to business problems, using culture as the delivery mechanism. I love him.”
David Kolbusz, CCO & Partner, Orchard Creative, ex-CCO, Droga5 London
“Analytically constructive contribution to a project coupled with emotionally nurturing contribution to a project. The ability to support in both ways simultaneously is quite rare and extremely useful. Andy is often better at understanding the work of a lateral thinker than they are. Which makes him invaluable in a creative environment.”
Ed Morris, Writer, Director, Photographer, ECD
“Andy thinks strategically about longer term partnerships and opportunities and how to stay nimble and grasp the opportunities coming from the changes in distributors and financiers of content - and the creative possibilities emerging from that as well as zeitgeist trends to be grabbed.”
Ivana MacKinnon, BAFTA winning producer, Beast, How to Have Sex, The Descent, Slumdog Millionaire
“A genuinely out of the box thinker.”
Professor Dominic McVey, MBE