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Savannah, Georgia, Us

Creative Principals delivers creative leadership for brand experiences, museums, visitor centers and attractions. Ultimately, creative leadership is about taking a project from concept to reality. The company has worked on everything from the renovated American Airlines Museum in Texas to the FM Global Innovation Studio in Boston. Creative Principals helped introduce the General Entertainment Authority of Saudi Arabia to Hollywood in 2018 and has led the initial visioning on new attractions in the Middle East for Miral. Our concepts can be seen in places as diverse as Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi and world’s largest diamond trade show in Las Vegas.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Led a talented team of writers, designers, illustrators, videographers, architects, programmers, producers and multi-media experts who delivered award-winning brand experiences. Experienced at pitching to C-Level executives and winning work with major Fortune 500 companies. Recent projects included a traveling exhibition for the King Abdullah Foundation in Saudi Arabia, a new lobby experience for Palo Alto Networks and new concepts for the executive briefing program at Dell Technologies. Other highlights over a decade include the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health in Washington, DC, the Lockheed Martin Space Experience Center and Honeywell’s Industrial Safety Customer Experience Center.

Los Angeles, California, Us

The desire to work on an Olympic-style opening ceremony led to a six-month assignment working as a producer responsible for, among other things, the creative direction and production of the video segments in the $17 million show the LA Times called “lavish and creative.” The job required three months in Rio while working for FiveCurrents, a creative and production firm. The show’s success led to Rio’s selection to host 2016 Summer Olympics.

London, England, Gb

Helped build this agency organically inside the publicly-traded Aegis Media from $1 million to $20 million in revenue while creating experiences like The Honeywell Technology Experience in Washington, D.C. Roll Call called the project an “EPCOT-style vision” and a “dramatic leap forward in the ever-intensifying corporate scramble to make standout connections.”

Brentwood, England, Gb

Joined this leadership development training and consulting company to assist the CEO and his partner in researching, editing and ghost writing The Leader’s Voice. Following its publication in 2002, helped transform the book into a workshop used by several Fortune 500 corporations and other large organizations. This work involved facilitating workshops at Microsoft, John Deere, Deloitte and The CIA University (yes, that CIA). Also served as creative consultant on a PBS documentary entitled Reimagine.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

With a creative philosophy deeply rooted in storytelling, writers are an integral part of the creative team at this theme park and museum design firm. Helped lead the creative efforts on projects such as the CNN Studio Tour and Battleship Missouri Memorial.

Managed a staff of two at this weekly business newspaper serving downtown Cincinnati.

Led the transformation of this weekly entertainment and gossip supplement from black and white to color.

Farmington, Utah, Us

Career creating great experiences started working as a train engineer, zookeeper, stuntman and entertainment manager at Lagoon, a regional theme park outside of Salt Lake City.