Getting beneath the surface
What I can help with
Telling your deep story
Improving creative work
Aligning your brand
Creative training & development
Brand expertise
Brand leadership
Founder, Studio Jelly. Strategic & creative direction for B Corps, non-profits, arts & culture, and purpose-driven organizations.
Creative direction
Nike, Starbucks, Google, Timberland, Coca-Cola, Fully, Portland Timbers, Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, Wikipedia, more.
Executive leadership
ECD, Wieden+Kennedy. GCD, The Martin Agency. ECD, Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam.
Brand education
Founding faculty, VCU Brandcenter. Founder & Director, Wieden+Kennedy 12. Training creative leaders for Apple, Google, W+K Portland, New York, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Shanghai.
What clients say
“Hiring Jelly is one of the best decisions we have made as an organization. Not marketing decision — best decision, period.”
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Merritt Paulson
Portland Timbers
“Jelly helped us explicate and manifest our soul in such an awesome way. Uniquely able to listen and translate who we are. Our success has been in no small part because of his work.”
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David Bronner
Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps
“Invaluable. Jelly helped us know ourselves better and more confidently tell our story. A transformative brand journey.”
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David Kahl
Fully furniture
“Bigger than a brand identity, working with Jelly gave us clarity of purpose. The work reflects our greatest aspirations and reminds us of who we are. It is a compass.”
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Sarah Hacker
Hacker Architects
“The process of learning, exploration, distillation, and revealing meaning in the work we do together – I love each new opportunity to work with Jelly.”
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Nolan Lienhart
ZGF Architects
“Jelly brings lots of knowledge, experience and insight to a conversation, and also can’t wait to hear what you have to say because he knows you know a lot too. He makes conversations big and deep, not small and shallow.”
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Dave Olsen
Starbucks
“The kind of person everyone on the team looks forward to working with. Thinks above and beyond products and platforms, focusing on emotional communication and meaningful impressions.”
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Jay Walsh
Wikipedia
“Jelly brings his full self to every engagement. Insightful questions, careful listening, more questions, more listening, going deep. Paying attention to the essence and feel of what the org is about. Highly unusual way of working, and such an incredible gift.”
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Eric Easom
AN2 Therapeutics
Your deep story
What story wants to be told through you?
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