Smith & Wild is an independent strategy and innovation consultancy. We work with business leaders and their teams to achieve more through greater imagination and accelerated action.At Smith & Wild our focus is on inspiring ideas that create action – and deliver results. And we take a very different approach to making this happen…Without fail the feedback we get from clients is that our working style is fast-paced and enjoyable. Critical to driving action and results is the need to get people fully engaged and inspired about the business and challenges ahead.Now we’re not talking about a falling backwards off tables, tree-hugging kind of fun. But a fast-paced enjoyable approach to strategy and innovation that gets everyone involved while accelerating your progress.Unique to Smith & Wild’s approach is a focus on the new, identifying megatrends across markets while applying new insights from global innovation leaders.Our clients include a wide range of small, medium and large businesses such as Air New Zealand, BNZ, MediaWorks, The Warehouse and Toyota.

Design Thinking Coaches are private sector practitioners with expertise in design and business.Their role within the Design Integration programme is to coach and mentor the CEO and their team, transfer knowledge and skills, and encourage the company to take on more complex challenges as their design confidence grows and they build capability...“Dave Wild is a strategist and innovation coach who believes that the best way to predict the future is to invent it, to design your own future, instead of letting others dictate it for you.Dave helps people to re-frame their viewpoint, and to look at questions in new ways. He isfocused on the power of people, down to the level of the individual within an organisation.”

Developing brand + portfolio strategies; pitching; facilitating client workshops + focus groups; research + analysis; business development; briefings; creative review; client service; team management.Key achievements include a lead role in winning major accounts such as Griffin’s + Foodstuffs; developing business structure + strategy including establishing the role of a planner.

Developing brand + communication strategies; pitching; facilitating client workshops + focus groups; research + analysis; business development; briefings; creative review; client service; team management.Key achievements include a pivotal role in winning major $1 million+ accounts such as NZ Lotteries + Genesis Energy; establishing an interactive offering for clients such as Vodafone; achieving A passes across all university papers including Advanced Strategy + Integrated Communications.

Strategy development; pitching; research; establishing requirements + scope; conceptualising; analysis + planning; documenting specifications; directing design + production; quality assurance; client service; planning channel + brand integration across various media including interactive, print + packaging.Key achievements include successfully pitching for and directing the development of Australasian websites for Sanitarium + Carter Holt Harvey businesses; leading conference + client seminars in Auckland + Sydney; contributing to publications such as Marketing Magazine + Grocers’ Review.

Recruitment; retainment; issue management; facilitation; performance + remuneration review.

Developing + marketing new services; establishing, training + managing web team; strategydevelopment; pitching; research; analysis + planning; project management; establishing requirements + scope; documenting specifications; directing design + development; quality assurance; client service.Key achievements include directing the development of a range of global sites for Air New Zealand + the BMG Entertainment website; leading client workshops in Auckland, Wellington + Los Angeles.

System design + administration; research; purchasing; support; training.

Design of brand identities, annual reports + profiles; conceptualising; art direction; production;copywriting; client service; project management.