Andy Marks Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Australia

I help people see things afresh & co-create positive, transformational opportunities for society & the planet. Together we are facilitating effective visionary leadership to drive a great transformation. My approach has four key pillars:Leadership - Supporting leaders as changemakers, raising ambition, taking bold decisions, resolving complex problemsStrategy - Co-designing high impact strategies, driving top-down systemic change & bottom-up community-led change Internal culture - Helping create energised cultures of innovation & creativity, empowering people at all levels Operationally - Embedding new ways of working with collaboration best practice, impactful narratives & stakeholder engagement as foundationsSince moving to Australia in 2014 I have been facilitating effective, visionary leadership with organisations including: NSW Gov – Climate Change & Sustainability & Biodiversity & Conservation divisions on the Net Zero Plan, Clean Air Strategy, Waste & Sustainable Materials Strategy, NSW water quality, sustainable housing, leadership development & staff events MC Purpose Conference – a long term board member & strategic advisor supporting business planning, partnerships, event experience design & a regular conference speakerABC - establishing impact production as a stand-alone discipline, facilitating a pan-ABC content strategy & the creation of an external impact community tested on the War on Waste series 1 & 2Planet Ark – leading the strategic development of the Australian Circular Economy HubACT Government – conceiving & directing the Fix and Make sustainability festival with 45 exhibitions, workshops & panel discussions with 15,000 delighted attendees & international media coverageMy many roles also include chair of NSW Circular Citizens Taskforce, judging the Hatch (Taronga) Accelerator Program, a Responsible Cafes advisor & NED of Pixiu Podcasts

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Since 2015 Purpose has explored, celebrated and amplified the growing movement of ethical, regenerative and socially impactful business. It's a gathering like no other with expansive content, brilliant experience design and the coming together of like-minded souls to share challenges and ambitions. My role as a long term board member and strategic advisor is to support the founder and the team on effective business planning, partnerships development and event experience design as the conference continues to grow in reach and stature.It also provides a platform to share my work as a speaker - the Fix and Make sustainability festival, ABC's War on Waste, my work with Glenn Albrecht architect of the Symbiocene, my thinking on corporate advocacy and activism

I advise the Founder and Creative Director of this market-leading, multi-platform, London based content company on the development and implementation of business planning and growth strategies.

Sydney, Australia

On my recommendation, Impact Design and Production was a first for the ABC to ensure War on Waste created meaningful, measurable viewer driven change in Australia. My work on the War on Waste helped galvanise the ABC and drive an emerging pan-ABC model. Internally, results from the impact strategy included the War on Waste podcast (debuting at No.1 on Itunes), War on Waste: The Survey - the biggest in Australia's history with over 40,000 respondents and many more collaboration firsts within the organisation.Externally, the impact approach focused on driving behaviour change by creating and embedding War on Waste in an external multi-stakeholder Impact Community – aligning 65 leading environmental NGOs, community groups and influencers with the Series and the Pan-ABC effort.The Impact Community delivered the routes to audience participation, creating exponentially greater impact - a model I called Collaboration for Collective Impact.Success has been such that War on Waste has proved the model for the biggest restructure in the ABC's history driven by collaboration and the breaking down of silos. Whilst a second series of War on Waste and a sister Children's' series, Project Planet, were commissioned and the Impact department has grown.

Australia

I conceived, created and directed this festival of 45 exhibitions, workshops and panel discussions exploring our relationship to objects and materials which secured funding from Molonglo Group, Hotel Hotel, ACT Government and the Australian Government. The program exceeded audience targets, scored exceptionally on attendee satisfaction tracking and generated over $1m of media exposure. One of the program strands Object Therapy, secured it’s own federal government funding to tour Australia for two and a half years.

United Kingdom And Australia

SleepingBags creates premium products made from end of life luxury hotel bed and table linens. These ‘washed to perfection’ fabrics are reimagined through strong design and brand values and artist collaborations. Ranges include bags, sleepwear, hotel amenities and soft furnishings and every product tells a story. To date, 9,476 kilos of retired linens have been re-made, the equivalent of 10,530 queen size sheets enough to cover 11 football pitches. Customers include five leading hotel groups (including two of the world’s top ten – Marriott and Rezidor with products in 16,500 rooms), leading arts intuitions and specialist retailers. The Enterprise has four guiding principles: 1. We don’t believe in waste – we look for the most direct way of re-imagining to save resources where possible. 2. We strive for improvement – we believe better is better. We never stop trying to improve what we create and the world we live in. 3. We create beauty – everything we make has a strong sense of aesthetic and we work with the best people in the world to create the ultimate in luxury. 4. We are committed to total transparency – we believe in sharing our ways. Nothing is hidden. Feedback makes us better.

Working with the CEO and marketing head, I created TCV's brand partnerships strategy and support materials, ran innovation workshops and helped launch their pioneering Grow Your Own app

I helped steer the charity's strategy including fund raising, resource planning, brand partnerships and annual awards programme

VivaCity raised awareness of grass-roots city movements around the world, and provided an outlet for my passion for grass-roots innovation.I assembled a team of six visionary cultural commentators to report on and celebrate over two hundred grass roots city movements; typically creating new types of community, enabled by technology, using public and private spaces in new ways and empowering people to act locally.Centered around the VivaCity blog, the project also included events, media content (including articles in The Times newspaper), consultancy for leading brands such as O2 and Saab, and a lecturing post for me at London's University of the Arts in sustainable communities.

London, United Kingdom

Salad Worldwide is my network of consultants, creatives and mavericks; a virtual consultancy of people with a passion for innovation and change. Commissions include business strategy, new product development strategy and concepts, brand strategy, change and planning workshops, launch planning and stakeholder engagement. Client highlights include developing Nokia’s CSR strategy (www.nokia.com/corporate-responsibility/environment), reviewing and re-launching O2’s community CSR strategy (http://www.o2thinkbig.co.uk/), creating Saab’s Move Your Mind minority groups business forums, VIVOBAREFOOT’s product and brand strategy (http://www.vivobarefoot.com/) and curating Wallpaper* magazine's Eco Edit exhibition.

London, United Kingdom

I started the company with a mission to make marketing communications culturally enriching and more rewarding, pioneering the emerging spheres of brand experience and branded content. Such was the interest in our approach, our services expanded to include new product development, research, stakeholder engagement and brand strategy.A network philosophy meant that we worked with leading 'Cultural Visionaries' including filmmakers, designers, artists, musicians and writers, for trends research, concept development and production.My role covered business strategy, leading the management team, financial management, client development, creative direction and new business. I was at the forefront of relationships with clients including adidas, MTV, Royal Shakespeare Company, Reebok, Sony and Vodafone. Commissions included research, brand and communications strategy and multi-media campaigns based on content rich, culturally driven ideas.

London, United Kingdom

At BBH, I took the traditional advertising agency model and developed it into a more dynamic, culturally rich content driven territory. I had overall responsibility for campaign planning and client development for Levi’s, Sony Consumer Products Company and a portfolio of beer brands including Stella Artois and the launch of Boddington's 'Cream of Manchester' campaign.