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Finding clarity (on wheels.)
The world doesn’t sit still long enough for inflexible answers.
Clarity is knowing what’s true - who you are, what you stand for, where your grain runs - deeply enough to act now (and in every now).
Staying awake to what’s core and essential but not afraid to move.
The same holds whether you’re a person, brand, or idea.
Value creation and brand strategy through a Zen lens.
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Making clarity dimensional.
This is where your inner moonlight builds a creative relationship with the world - stories, formats, campaigns, experiences, IP that people can see, feel and belong to.
Enough structure to be coherent.
Enough freedom to vibrate with reality as it vibrates.Creative liberation.
Worlds, not just assets.
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Staying balanced as reality moves.
As the great Zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh said, “thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.” Suffering comes from clinging to what was, as opposed to dancing with what is.
This is thinking alongside you as the work, the people, and the world shift. Helping you hold clarity. Spot what’s emerging. Navigate transition without fragmenting. Stay strong through change.
It takes a village
It takes a village
I have a diverse and influential network of co-pilots and compadres across arts, entertainment, culture, brand, science, technology, crypto, investing, democracy, and wellbeing.
Everything I do is a collaboration - sometimes formal, sometimes informal. Always drawing on and respecting collective wisdom. Always crediting where credit is due.
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What people are saying
“I’m confident companies of any size or stage will find outsized returns from working with Andy. His brain and experience is such a force, applying deep cultural and theoretical nerdery with decades of hands-on experience. Andy will discover and multiply a business’s cultural and brand value and crystalise lasting differentiation in a world full of commodities.”
Fig, Co-Founder, Squid (DeFi Crypto Company)
"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 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 (Massive Attack, Soulwax, Richard Russell, Young Fathers)
“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's input has 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 is my go to strategic creative 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
“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
“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 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 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
“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,
“A genuinely out of the box thinker.”
Professor Dominic McVey, MBE