Experience Strategist · Brand & Creative

Strategy and creative for companies that still have something to say.

I work in the moment the question changes. Not how do we do this better, but what are we actually building, and does it still mean what we thought.

Based in the Bay Area Available for select work
About
01 / Approach

I work between brand, creative, and the cultural conditions that shape both. The throughline runs underneath the work, not across the surface.

I came up in luxury hospitality, shaping environments for luxury hospitality brands like Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton, Waldorf Astoria and so forth. That world taught me something that stayed: the work that shapes an experience is mostly invisible. The story underneath. The systems nobody sees. The decisions a guest never notices but always feels.

I carried that into startups and consulting. The environments changed. The question underneath the work didn't. I read the conditions underneath a problem before anyone has named it correctly, set the story that organizes everything else, and build the systems that keep it coherent as it scales.

I work best with companies at inflection points. The ones people have actual feelings about. Scaling without losing their soul, or reclaiming a north star they have drifted from.

EducationMBA, Design Strategy, California College of the Arts
WritingCollected Between the Lines, an essay practice on brand and culture
FocusBrand · Creative direction · Narrative · Systems
Work
02 / Selected
Brand Strategy Creative Direction Narrative & Worldbuilding Trend Foresight Systems & Operations Team Building
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Luxury hospitality, the story before the design
Creative Direction · Narrative
I set the narrative that organizes an entire property. "The Cactus Road" as worldbuilding for a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Cabo. "YúYù" for a luxury senior community in Xi'an. The story comes first and the design follows from it. Storytelling that won over $50M in competitive work for Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton, and Waldorf Astoria.
02
Dear Louie,
Founder · Brand & Creative
A dog-care brand built as a daily act of devotion. One personalized packet each morning, dosed by name and weight, in a box made to live on the counter. A love letter, every morning. I founded it and built the whole world: the philosophy, the voice, the identity, the product, and the ritual.
03
Mothership Materials
Brand · Program · 0→1
Brought in as employee two, no infrastructure, founding team of three. I built a brand-and-product launch program from nothing, its positioning, creative direction, and pricing, and it generated over $3M in eight months. Then I built the systems that let the company scale to fifteen without losing coherence.
04
WGSN
Trend Foresight · Brand Direction
As a strategic design SME, I turned cultural, economic, and social forces into product and brand direction for national lifestyle brands. Foresight built from the data up, into something a brand could actually act on.
05
A high-profile design studio, rebuilt to grow
Strategy · Operations
The work was there. The team structure and resource allocation weren't. I diagnosed the gap, rebuilt how the team was organized, and wrote a twelve-month growth plan. Projected revenue increase in year one: 50%.
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Residency 6
Program Building · Team Leadership
I built a residency program inside CCA's DMBA program that connected paying consulting work with real clients to a specialized student team. I designed the programming from the ground up and built it to scale, then ran two cohorts on live engagements. Setting the standard, developing the talent, and proving the model across consecutive engagements.
Writing
03 / Point of view
An essay practice on brand and the cultural conditions underneath the work. Collected Between the Lines ↗

Writing is where I keep the point of view sharp. Essays on cultural diagnosis, on brand strategy, and on what makes a brand cohere when there is more of it.