A different kind of creative director.

Fresh thinking. Better ideas. Someone who makes things happen.

When your business is growing, you don't always need another agency, another consultant or another full-time employee.

Sometimes you need someone experienced who can come in, understand what you're trying to achieve, spot the opportunities you might be missing and help you make things happen.

Someone who can see the bigger picture without losing sight of the details. Who understands creativity, but also understands customers, people and the realities of running a business.

That's where I can help.

As a fractional creative director, I bring together experience from advertising, branding, hospitality, professional sport and running businesses.

It's an unusual combination. But it means you get more than creative direction.

You get a fresh perspective, a strategic thinker, a creative problem-solver and someone who's genuinely invested in helping your business succeed.

Someone who'll work with your team, challenge assumptions, contribute ideas and happily roll up their sleeves to bring them to life.

All the benefits of an experienced creative director, with a little more besides.

Ways to work together

Clear thinking.
Brave ideas.
Real momentum.

Copying feels logical. It isn't.

When you imitate what's already working, you don't inherit its success. You cancel it out. The human brain doesn't respond to what it's already seen. It tunes it out.

Your only chance is to do something different.

Not radical. Not reckless. Just genuinely, unmistakably different.

Conventional thinking always leads to the same place. If everyone acts logically, everyone ends up together — and that's exactly where you don't want to be.

The opportunity is always in the other direction.

The businesses brave enough to go there always win.


AMANDA GEE

“One of the most creative minds I’ve ever met… he captured the essence of who I am.”


JULIA NELSON

“His ability to listen, question and find ideas no one else would — immense.”


Stephan Bognar, President, NYDG Foundation

"Working with Thad gave me an insight into their unique creative process. His vision for the project was so inspiring."